Honduras Land Administration Agency Standardizes on Bentley ProjectWise for Managed Environment for National Cadastre.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers EXTON, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 14, 2004 Accurate Cadastral ca·das·tre also ca·das·ter n. A public record, survey, or map of the value, extent, and ownership of land as a basis of taxation. [French, from Provençal cadastro, from Italian Maps, Linked to Legal Information and Published on the Web, Streamline Property Transfers and Financing to Support Economic Development Bentley Systems Bentley Systems, Incorporated, provides software for the "Design, construction and operation of the world's infrastructure". The company’s software serves the building, plant, civil, and geospatial vertical markets in the areas of architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) , Incorporated today announced that the Honduran land administration agency PATH has standardized on Bentley ProjectWise, the company's flagship collaboration server, to create a managed environment for nationwide cadastral and geospatial information. By providing Honduras with a single, reliable source of property ownership data, the system will streamline property transfers and help buyers get bank financing. By encouraging property ownership, the project will support economic development and enhance tax revenues. "Before, it took months to get the information for a property transfer. You'd have to go to the cadastre CADASTRE. A term derived from the French, which has been adopted in Louisiana, and which signifies the official statement of the quantity and value of real property in any district, made for the purpose of justly apportioning the taxes payable on such property. 3 Am. St. Pap. 679; 12 Pet. 428, n. office, to the municipal office--everyone had a different piece. And because the information wasn't centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. , you weren't sure it was reliable. This system brings security to the possession of land in our country," said Igor Zelaya, chief developer for PATH (Proyecto de Administracion de Tierras de Honduras). In PATH's spatially enabled managed environment, valuable information is confidently shared, synchronized, and secured regardless of its source. PATH's geographically dispersed teams A Geographically Dispersed Team (GDT) – also known as a Virtual team – is a group of individuals who work across time, space, and organizational boundaries with links strengthened by webs of communication technology. work together to create cadastral maps - using ProjectWise to manage data on infrastructure, topology, and property ownership, as well as information from remote field surveyors. The maps are then cross-referenced to legal information and aerial photographs. The agency's managed environment also includes Bentley Publisher, which enables the agency to automatically publish cadastral maps as well as related property titles, land-use regulations, and other data to any standard Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . In the first phase of its project, PATH's database now covers three of Honduras' 18 districts. The agency's 12-year mission is to create a nationwide database, making information available to local jurisdictions and municipalities. "Scalability is a big benefit of ProjectWise," Zelaya said. "ProjectWise and other Bentley products are a proven solution for this kind of project. This process was also done in El Salvador El Salvador (ĕl sälväthōr`), officially Republic of El Salvador, republic (2005 est. pop. 6,705,000), 8,260 sq mi (21,393 sq km), Central America. with a lot of success," he said. "And they have the same problems in Panama, Nicaragua, and Guatemala. An implementation like this could benefit all these countries." PATH is funded by the World Bank, a United Nations agency that provides financing and technical expertise to developing countries. PATH's managed environment earned a BE Award of Excellence, one of 21 announced last week at the BE Conference in Orlando, Florida The city of Orlando is a major city in central Florida and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida. According to the 2000 census, the city population was 185,951. A 2006 U.S. . The annual awards honor Bentley users and their extraordinary work improving the world's infrastructure. About Bentley Bentley Systems, Incorporated, provides software for the lifecycle of the world's infrastructure. The company's comprehensive portfolio for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial vertical markets spans architecture, engineering, construction (AEC AEC US Atomic Energy Commission Noun 1. AEC - a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States Atomic Energy Commission ) and operations. With 2003 revenues reaching $260 million, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering News-Record Engineering News-Record (widely known as ENR) is a weekly magazine that provides news, analysis, data and opinion for the construction industry worldwide. It has been published since 1874. It is owned by The McGraw-Hill Companies. Design 500 and major owner-operators. To receive Bentley press releases as they are issued, visit www.bentley.com/bentleywire. For more information, visit www.bentley.com. Bentley, the "B" logo, BE, ProjectWise, and Publisher are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or Bentley Software, Inc. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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