Abstract
Abstract. Informal settlements in urban areas are increasing rapidly throughout the world and regularisation of these settlements is being one of the challenging issues. Various study results have shown that conventional cadastral based information system approach and government managed institutional arrangements do not appropriately address land management issues of slum settlements. The aim of this study is to explore application of smartphone based Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and open spatial tools for slum mapping in developing countries such as in Nepal. A case of Pokhara Metropolitan city has been considered to explore the potential of utilization of smartphone based VGI and open spatial tools for slum mapping. Attribute and spatial data were collected using Smartphones and community-driven approach. Spatial and attribute data collected from 229 respondents of household’s surveys are integrated, analysed and interpreted and presented in this paper. Open Street Map (OSM) platforms and QGIS open source software have been used for slum mapping. These maps could play an important role in providing spatial information to the local government and planning authority in Nepal. This research paper concludes that smartphone based VGI and open portals such OSM have great potential to contribute to develop slum database and in providing information to plan various strategies, which aims at understanding, regularisation and upgrading slums.
Highlights
For most of the developing countries, the regularisation and upgrading of informal settlements in urban cities have been a big problem for the government and to the local residence residing near such settlements
3.1 Land Title and Household Survey added that they are residing as a slum as they cannot afford to buy a property in their current location and are here because of natural calamities and lack of opportunities for earning in their previous location
Smartphone based Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) have been used in various part of the world for land administration, cadastral purpose and mapping
Summary
1.1 BackgroundFor most of the developing countries, the regularisation and upgrading of informal settlements in urban cities have been a big problem for the government and to the local residence residing near such settlements. After the restoration of democracy in 1990, a new high-level political commission Sukumbasi Samashya Samadhan Aayog (SSSA) was formed in 1995 to work for landless people and informal settlements in Nepal. Later, this commission received 263,738 applications demanding for property rights and land ownership certificates. SSSA verified the applications and identified 54,170 families as a real informal settlements (Sukumbasi) To regularise these settlements, the commission had distributed land ownership certificates to 1278 families, while 10278 families received temporary land entitlement paper (Jagannath 2008). For addressing the issues related with informal settlement, Nepal government in its policy level has been working for legalisation, resettlement and regularisation and upgrading of informal settlement (Paudyal and McDougall 2010)
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