Floss in Cadastre and Land Registration

Technical characteristics

The application design is made of two parts, i.  e. a common database storing 

and processing data, and a client application to visualize data and operate data-

base procedures. The database supports the tracking of time and user performing 

changes, so that the history of any object can be reconstructed. The document 

templates are editable by the user, offering quick and easy edition of document 

layouts. CAMPUS 1.0 was designed to meet multi-platform requirements and is 

suitable for Windows XP / service pack 3, Linux (Ubuntu distribution) and OS X 

 operating systems with the same usability.

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 See 

http://www.gvsig.org/web/

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CAMPUS 1.0 is designed as a set of 19 gvSIG extensions monitored by the main 

CAMPUS extension. These extensions can also be further extended by any other 

party who would like to customize further, continuing the process of extensibility 

of both gvSIG and CAMPUS.

CAMPUS 1.0 uses the following gvSIG tools:

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  geospatial libraries (vividsolutions, geotools packages);

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  database manager (GDBMS project);

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  scripting console (extScripting project);

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  GUI objects for representing data table content, geospatial and topology 

 symbols (com.iver.cit.gvSIG.project package); and

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  Symbology package (FMap).

GvSIG is based on the extensible platform ANDAMI (see Figure 4.5.) which per-

forms reading and mounting of extensions immediately after application start. 

ANDAMI also provides a user interface for placing menus, toolbars and user win-

dows and offers a multilingual support. Text files (.properties) for each language 

need to be added to the config folder of a _appANDAMI project, which contains 

text labels in a term=translation manner. This allows further use of the application 

in other languages.

References

Mićanović, I., K. Osmanović, and M. Wagner (2008). Feasibility Study on the Use of FLOSS in the Cadastre 

 Sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina. FAO / FIG / WB, March 2008.

4.3 Cambodia

 Gertrude 

Pieper

The Cambodian cadastre would seem the ideal candidate for the implementa-

tion of free and open-source software. Technical and financial resources are lim-

ited in Cambodia, one of the poorest countries in South East Asia. During the 

Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s, all land records were destroyed. Now, a land 

register is being built up from scratch through systematic land registration, village 

by  village. Each month, around 25,000 land parcels are registered through a dig-

ital land registration system. Computers and software licenses have been bought 

to equip land registration teams in 15 provincial cadastral offices. The costs to 

maintain the system and to meet future demands in terms of data volume and 

user requirements are considerable. The idea of using of open-source software as 

an alternative to proprietary database and GIS software is met with enthusiasm, 

and  efforts are underway to implement open-source software solutions. The obvi-

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ous financial benefit is one of the reasons why open-source solutions are popular 

in Cambodia. However, the cost of software licenses is probably the least of the 

many chal lenges that the Cambodian cadastre is facing.