1. E-Land for E-Government: Using GIS in Korea Presented By: Pasent Hesham Ahmed Yousef By Byong-nam Choe Web Address: http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/summer04articles/e-land.html Topic Number: 6 Summer 2004

2. INTRODUCTION In Korea, The responsibilities of public land administration are : 1. Assessment of land prices, 2. Management of land transactions, 3. Land use planning and management, 4. Civil services.

3. THE PROBLEMS 1. The production of similar land and property information by many authorities,which led to the conflict in information. 2. The financial loss to landowners due to this incorrect information. 3. Legal information related to land use regulation on the property was not readily available. 4. The delay in transforming the information to the central government. 5. The ministry was unable to properly handle problems, such as land speculation, because of its insufficient land and property information.

4. THE SOLUTIONS Developing a method for sharing the information and data produced or required for administering land in the public and private sectors. Establishing the Land Management Information System (LMIS) in 1998 to : 1. Provide land information, 2. Increase the productivity of the public land administration, 3. Support establishing the land planning policies The land database was established using ArcSDE. This database included topographic, cadastral, and land use district maps.

5. The PROBLEMS after that When digitalizing the individual map into the database: 1. Sometimes the boundary lines of adjacent maps did not join properly,due to the expansion or contraction of the papers, or when unskilled persons performed the data automation, so that disjoint, touches, crosses, and overlap appears in maps. 2. Land use area and district maps were based on incorrect analog maps. As maps had been drawn at various reduced scales

6. CONTINUING THE PROBLEMS This illustrates the significant differences between a topographic map and a land map.

7. THE BENIFITES 1. Each local authority is operating its own data server, which was purchased as a national information project. 2. Now national institutions can access land information databases through a government-administered information network, and the public can access it through the Internet.

8. CONTINUING THE BENIFITES Citizens can get land information easily at home, including land price information.

9. CONTINUING THE BENIFITES 3. The Land Policy Support System and Land Use Planning Support System were developed using ArcInfo and MapObjects to integrate and analyze both spatial and statistical data. 4. This system has also resulted in a time and cost savings. 5. Printing land price presentation maps directly.

10. IN THE FUTURE The focus will be on the expansion and development of the decision making support system using various data analyses. Developing new methodology to solve specific problems by using GIS but also to construct a significant and important spatial information infrastructure for e-government, which will provide integrated information and transactions in the future. Developing new methodology to solve specific problems by using GIS but also to construct a significant and important spatial information infrastructure for e-government, which will provide integrated information and transactions in the future.