QUALITY CONTROL OF THE COSTA RICAN CADASTRAL MAP USING OPEN SOURCE GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS)

Authors

  • Manuel Ramírez-Núñez Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
  • Esteban A. Mora-Vargas Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Costa Rica

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15359/rgac.2-53.8

Keywords:

Cadastre, cadastral map, geographic information systems (GIS), open source software, Costa Rica

Abstract

This article presents a methodology for quality control of the cadastral map based on the tools provided by Open Source Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Errors in the cadastral map have a direct impact on information systems that may lead to wrong decision-making, increase cost of maintenance and updating of the spatial data. The developed methodology was used and validated by the Costa Rican Cadastre and Register Regularization Program. As a product of this program, a continuous cadastral map of Costa Rica was created to be used for the cadastral and registry transactions within the National Registry. The methodology allows the detection, location and classification of errors in the cadastral map in order to be fixed to ensure that the map is a correct representation of the parcels.

Author Biographies

Manuel Ramírez-Núñez, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica

Msc. en Informática, Ing. en Geodesia. Académico en la Escuela de Topografía, Catastro y Geodesia (ETCG), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA), Heredia.

Esteban A. Mora-Vargas, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica

Msc. en Geografía, Ing. en Geodesia. Académico en la Escuela de Topografía, Catastro y Geodesia (ETCG), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA), Heredia.

References

Abdul, A. & Pilouk, M.. (2008). Spatial Data Modelling for 3D GIS. New York, USA: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Blachut, T. (1979). Cartografía y levantamiento Urbanos. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Brovelli, M. & Mitasova, H. (2012). Free and open source desktop and web GIS solutions. Applied Geomatics, 4 (2), 65-66.

Burrough P. & Mcdonnell, R. (1998). Principles of Geographical Information Systems. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gomarasca, M. (2009). Basics of Geomatics. New York: Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg.

Harmon, J. & Anderson S. (2003). The design and implementation of Geographic Information System. New Jersey, USA: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Ley del Catastro Nacional, Ley No6545. (1981, 13 de marzo). La Gaceta, 100, mayo, 25, 1982. Costa Rica.

Ley de convenio con el BID para el Programa de Regularización del Catastro y el Registro, Ley No 8154. (2001, 27 noviembre). La Gaceta, 237, diciembre, 10, 2001. Costa Rica.

Longley, P. (2001). Geographic Information Science and Systems. New Jersey, USA: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Programa de Regularización del Catastro y Registro. (2009). Fortaleciendo la seguridad jurídica y promoviendo el ordenamiento territorial. Costa Rica. Recuperado de: http://www.uecatastro.org/phocadownload/documentos-institucionales/Folleto%20v10%20final%20baja.pdf

Ramírez, M. (2007). La nueva fotogrametría de Costa Rica. Revista Azimuth, 3(3), 22-27.

Ramírez, M., González, A. (2008). Sistema Nacional de Información Territorial propuesto por el Programa de Regularización de Catastro y Registro. Revista Azimuth, 4(4), 20-23.

Downloads

Published

2015-05-01

How to Cite

Ramírez-Núñez, M., & Mora-Vargas, E. A. (2015). QUALITY CONTROL OF THE COSTA RICAN CADASTRAL MAP USING OPEN SOURCE GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS). Geographical Journal of Central America, 2(53), 173-187. https://doi.org/10.15359/rgac.2-53.8

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 53 (2014): Revista Geográfica de América Central N. 53

Section

Case studies (Peer reviewed)

License

Proposed policy for journals offering Open Access

Authors publishing their works in the Journal acknowledge and agree to the following terms:

a) Authors retain the copyrights to their works and guarantee the Journal the right to be the first to publish their works, under the Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.es), which allows others to share works upon complying with the acknowledgment of authorship and mention of the Journal as the original publisher of the work.

b) Authors are permitted to separately establish additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the official edition of the work published in the Journal (for example, authors may desire to place the work in an institutional repository or incorporate it into a book that is to published elsewhere) so long they acknowledgment to recognize the Journal as the original publisher. The aforementioned additional agreements must respect the terms of the non-profit character and sharing philosophy of the original license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.es).

c) Authors are encouraged to archive the post-print or editor/PDF version in Open Access repositories.

How to Cite

Ramírez-Núñez, M., & Mora-Vargas, E. A. (2015). QUALITY CONTROL OF THE COSTA RICAN CADASTRAL MAP USING OPEN SOURCE GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS). Geographical Journal of Central America, 2(53), 173-187. https://doi.org/10.15359/rgac.2-53.8