Territorial Planning

How much is the land worth in your city?

A very broad question that can trigger multiple answers, many of them even emotional; many variables if it is land with or without building, public services or typical area lot. That there was a page where we could know the value of the land in a specific area of our city, would undoubtedly be ...

The SINAP National System of Property Administration

The National System of Property Administration (SINAP) is a technological platform that integrates all the information related to the physical and normative resource of the nation, where the different public, private and individual actors register all the transactions associated with the assets of property, necessary for the constitution and revitalization of a market ...

Recommendations when implementing LADM

In several of the projects that I have participated, I have witnessed that the confusions caused by the LADM are not necessarily associated with understanding it as an ISO norm, but rather in isolating its conceptual scope from its technological mechanization scenario. In other words, on how to implement it. It must be clear that the LADM does not ...

Domain Model of Land Administration - Case of Colombia

The administration of the Earth is, currently, one of the main challenges of the countries. It is not a new aspiration, because its function is more than explicit in the main articles of the constitution and the different laws that govern the relationship of the settlers with the public and private resources of the nation. Without…

Soil Values Mapping Project in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Lincoln Institute for Land Policy calls on volunteers from all cities in Latin America and the Caribbean to participate in the construction of a Land Values Map of the region. This activity will take place from the 8 of February to the 31 of March of 2016. Know the behavior of ...

Master's in Design and Urban Planning [UJCV]

This is one of the most interesting master's degrees in the Central American region, considering the importance it has for local governments and the irreversible urgency charged by the disciplines implicit in the management of the territory under a human development approach. It comes at an interesting moment, when the José Cecilio del Valle University renews its ...

The delimitation of real estate and the interaction with public institutions

This is the theme that will be addressed at the II Conference of the Expert Geometer, which will be held at the 23 of October of 2015 in Madrid. Recently, several laws of great impact have been approved for real estate property. This conference will show how the reforms of the Mortgage Law and Cadastre, together ...

20 Steps to build a city from scratch

This is a collector's item for lovers of Urban Development and Territorial Planning, that beyond smoking in smart cities that seems like a cliché aiming at the taste for complicating things, poses in 20 simplified steps, the challenge for which they are betting countries like Egypt and Equatorial Guinea in the ...

Territorial Ordering Explained

Territorial Planning is a tool for the sustainable use of natural resources. For many years the Peruvian territory has been occupied under the logic of making the most of natural resources, causing in some cases negative impacts on the ecosystems and the productive base of the country, also generating ...

What a geomatician should know about the LADM land management standard

It is known as LADM to the land administration standard (Land Administration Domain Model), which managed to become the ISO 19152 from 2012. It is not a software, but a conceptual model that outlines the relationship between people and the earth; standardize what seems in each country is different and ...

Land Governance: the LGAF methodology

It is known as LGAF, the methodology that in Spanish is known as the Framework for the Evaluation of Land Governance. This is an instrument with which the diagnosis of a country's legal status is made, in terms of legislation and practices related to public policy specifically with tenure and ...

Course of Global Mapper and 3 more than Civile offers

Civile is a company that offers various consulting and training services in partnership with other organizations in the sector, on topics such as engineering project development, territorial planning and the environment. In this case we highlight at least 4 courses that are about to start, all to be done in Seville: MODEL OF FLOWS, MODFLOW This ...

The Master's Degree in Spatial Planning of the UNAH

The Master in Land Management and Management offered by the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH), is an academic program that since its inception in the year 2005, has been developed jointly with the Department of Geography of the University of Alcalá (ESpaña) . For a consultation that arrived a few days ago, we took the opportunity to ...

Latin American Forum on Notable Instruments of Urban Intervention

The Program for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy announces this important forum, which will be held in Quito, Ecuador from 5 to 10 in May of 2013. Organized in conjunction with the State Bank of the Republic of Ecuador, its purpose is to disseminate, share and evaluate ...

International Virtual Cadastre Symposium

With the co-sponsorship of the College of Geographers of Peru and UNIGIS, Geowebss presents the symposium "Current status of the cadastre and computer and telematics renewal strategies", which will take place on Friday 10 and Saturday 11 of August of 2012. The face-to-face event will be held in Peru but users of all ...

The strategic value of territorial information

Within the framework of the presentation of the Geological Map of the Canary Islands, the Technical Workshops on the Strategic Value of Territorial Information will be held. The fundamental axis of these will focus on geographic information, which as a rational and coherent means of knowledge of the physical environment of the earth and its evolution in ...

The Trans 450, Fast Transit Bus to Tegucigalpa

This is an interesting project that now takes place in Honduras, under the modality of Bus Rapid Transit (BTR). Although now it is in that stage of understanding before the carriers that do not have the clarity of how the cities evolve, it seems to us one of the milestones in the development of the thematic axis ...

The topics of the Congress of Guatemala Surveying

Just finished the congress of Land Administration and Surveying carried out in Guatemala, the previous month, have been hung the presentations of the exhibitors. They are available on a single page, although it is more practical to see them on Slideshare, from where they can be downloaded. I suggest downloading them and keeping them in a personal file, considering that in these times ...