With GIS, information on lands is now at your fingertips

                                                                                          

By Adekunle Adekoya

EARLIER this month, the Lagos State Government launched the Lagos Geographic Information System (GIS). For ordinary citizens, individual or corporate, who have had any experience regarding acquisition of property in Lagos, it must be a major step forward considering what one goes through in the hands of the famed omo-oniles (land-owning families), and the relief that a GIS is bound to bring. Last week, Mr Monsurudeen Olawale Durowoju, a surveyor who is Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Digital Mapping and the GIS Project spoke to CyberLIFE on the IT efforts made to put the GIS in place. Excerpts:

What efforts went into making the GIS a reality?


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