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Cadastres, land digitisation, titling, valuation, property and the law around land.
Every time a GIS analyst pulls down a Sentinel image, corrects a coordinate with GNSS, or runs a flood model off an Earth observation feed, they are quietly relying on something most of us never think about.
For decades, managing land and urban development has depended on paper records, disconnected datasets and processes that make even routine decisions painfully slow. In Kisumu, that model is beginning to change.
As GIS becomes central to planning and decision-making, understanding legal obligations around data ownership, privacy, security, and compliance is more important than ever.
From Nairobi's Mukuru Special Planning Area to Brazil's Favela Bairro program, discover sustainable approaches to upgrading informal settlements.
As urban land becomes increasingly scarce, sectional property ownership offers an innovative approach that enables individuals to own apartments, offices, and units within multilevel developments through separate titles.
Decades after Kenya's historic 1986 sessional paper on economic management, Nairobi faces an unprecedented vertical growth surge. As high-rise apartments crowd historic suburbs like Kilimani and Parklands, the city confronts a critical question: continue densifying upwards, or decentralize outward?
Telangana's revenue minister wants every parcel in the state re-surveyed within a year, in farmers' presence, to settle boundary and record disputes.
Source: The Hans India
Surveyors are back in Kanniyakumari's Arukani area to measure the remaining land claimed under the Forest Rights Act, after only 113 of 717 acres were done.
Source: The Hindu
Bihar has ordered striking amins off duty and their e-Maapi IDs deactivated, replacing them with special survey amins to clear a growing land-measurement backlog.
Source: Patna Press
The court wants a task force set up quickly to govern the digital survey of disputed Idukki land, as boundaries are being marked from occupants' claims.
Source: The Times of India
After the Supreme Court upheld state ownership, a joint survey in Telangana found about 150 of 550 acres at Miyapur encroached.
Source: The Times of India
The draft Space Industry Regulatory Bill would replace the 1993 Space Affairs Act and create a new regulator, with a 60-day comment period from 30 October 2026.
Source: Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic)
Taylors Development Strategists, South East Water and KLM Spatial were among the winners at Melbourne's 2026 EISSI gala, with national judging due in February 2027.
Source: Spatial Source
Bangladesh's Department of Land Records and Surveys has begun a digital survey in Patuakhali Mouza No. 26, with step-by-step guidance for landowners.
Source: Daily Country Today
Space in Africa finds seven countries own 47 of Africa's 69 satellites, yet only three are fully equipped to manage the associated risks.
Source: Space in Africa
Landowners at Meta Umri halted a survey for Nagpur's 148-km ring road, demanding compensation criteria be announced before work on their land continues.
Source: The Times of India