Transactional management systems provide municipalities with increased organization of their transaction process, but governments often need a similar system to help manage their ever-increasing land information. Thus, Stewart International has worked with governments to create, maintain, and update geographic information systems (GIS) to provide customers with an end-to-end solution for land information management.
Stewart harnesses its technological expertise to provide municipalities with state-of-the-art spatial data computer systems. Stewart's team works within a municipality's implementation design and organizational requisites, providing the most effective and useful tools to help municipalities effectively manage and analyze their land information. The GIS organizes a municipality's land information into a centralized system and can coordinate different levels of geographical information. Day-to-day efficiency is increased by designing the GIS to include:
- specific process flows and task management
- Internet-based applications
- tabular and graphical data
- customized output for multiple levels of users
- conversion from one GIS to another
- production audit
- data creation
Upon completion of the system design, the Stewart team makes sure that the GIS is effectively implemented. Stewart produces a quality tested user guide providing easy-to-follow instructions and illustrated step-by-step guidelines to accomplishing a series of tasks. The guide works in conjunction with Stewart's on-site training to make sure that each end user has the resources needed to fully utilize the GIS
Real world application
Stewart's GIS systems have been implemented in Trinidad and Tobago; Ruzomberok, Slovakia; Escazu, Costa Rica and in other locations around the world. A recent project in Ruzomberok, Slovakia combined computer generated digital maps of the municipality, vectored cadastral maps and technical maps covering the municipality's infrastructure.
In Trinidad and Tobago, Stewart International created a GIS containing 300,000 property parcels. The GIS consisted of property parcels generated from existing hardcopy sources, married to a layer of planimetric map information of sufficient positional integrity and density to permit georeferencing of the parcels themselves. The GIS also included an appraisal level allowing for an interactive role for the data set. Stewart mapped existing structures in the parcels to serve as needed information to conduct on-site appraisals and valuations. In the future, the GIS data will help manage property sales, reappraisals, splits, etc.
