Development of a Prototype Land Information Management System

Abstract

This study addresses certain aspects of data modeling with respect to Geographic information systems (GIS). The primary objective of this project is an attempt to develop an automated Land Information Management System (LIMS). In Kenya today, land information is held mostly in paper form, managed manually and even the paper records themselves are not optimally organized. The process of retrieving and disseminating this information is inefficient, time consuming and cannot support timely decision making. This project represents the formalization of the geometrical portion of data concerning certain kinds of geographical phenomena. This formalization is modeled in unified modeling language (UML) to develop a database. The UML is used to capture both the static and dynamic components of the cadastre given its many entities and attributes. The report develops a prototype database that is based on the Cadastre 2014 document and attempts to customize the database to suit the Kenyan environment. The project concludes that UML presents an opportunity to render the data and its processes in a manner that reduces redundancy and eliminates duplication of roles in the cadastral data recording system. Modeling presents a simpler way of presenting a standardized way for designing the database. This study has developed a prototype LIMS using the object-oriented modeling approach. This approach provides a natural method for describing real world spatial entities, avoids data fragmentation and enables useful capabilities for managing databases. The object-oriented modeling allows better integration, data consistency, minimizes reformatting, convenient data merging and saves a lot of time. It is a feasible approach to allow data sharing among different organizations and users.