Necesidad de un geoportal catastral estandarizado, interoperable y usable

Abstract

Both the municipalities and the State Government of Ecuador are in a critical situation regarding the implementation of the Land Registry. On the one hand, the country constitution supports the decentralization of El Ecuador leading to its municipalities have the responsibility of implementing the property registration. On the other hand, the Association of Municipalities of Ecuador (AME) has a non- standard format for collecting cadastral information which is followed by a good part of the Ecuadorian municipalities; other municipalities are still other formulas, some inadvisable. The lack of land standards recommended by international institutions (ISO, OGC) that facilitate interoperability of geographic information, prevent the crossing of cadastral information with other spatial information of the country, which does not allow place the cadastre map servers able to be accessed ubiquitously. This is dramatic for the country (state institutions, companies and individuals) who are unable to use computer tools for take land decisions on several municipalities, a province or the entire country. In addition to the lack of uniformity of cadastral files, appears the difficulty to store and manage cadastral information based on GIS type complex programs that require the use of specialists (at cost to the municipal coffers) and the lack of usability of query interfaces. This work supports theidea of the need for a National Cadastral IDE and designing tools to facilitate the consultations carried out to the IDE.