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Source: Computimes, New Straits Times (page 6) The Ministry of Land and Co-operative Development (MLCD) is scheduled to carry out a pilot of the National Land Information System (NALIS) project by the middle of next year.The implementation will be carried out for 18 months under a controlled environment over a geographic area covering Kuala Lumpur. Seven Government agencies have been selected for the pilot, comprising both custodians and users of land-related data in their day-to-day operations. They are the Economic Planning Unit at the Prime Minister's Department, Survey and Mapping Department, Land Office, Valuation and Property Services Department, Geological Survey Department and Kuala Lumpur City Hall. According to MLCD's secretary of the Information System Division, Mohd Yunus Tamin, who also chairman of the Nalis Task Force (NTF), the main objective of Nalis is to provide a single window to all Government land-related data, regardless of the physical location and scheme of such geographical databases. The system, he said, will enable users to browse through and search a central directory to identify the data that is available for a specific geographic location and order the data. Data orders are routed through a gateway and computer systems to the data repository, located at the ministry, where the requested data are sent back to the users at their location. "The objective of the pilot project is to realize the Nalis concepts and to acquire the necessary knowledge and expertise in establishing the system," he told Computimes recently. Mohd Yunus said the success for the pilot would pave the way to the development of a fully integrated Nalis system to all States in Peninsular Malaysia as well as Sabah and Sarawak by the year 2000. The establishment of Nalis follows the Cabinet's decision in 1987 to establish a Land Information System by making effective use of information technology (IT) to support land and resource management to help ensure the best use of the country's land and resources. The NTF that was subsequently formed in December last year, co-ordinated by MLDF with participating agencies from 36 departments, will be responsible for planning and coordinating the activities of all the agencies involved. The Nalis network will essentially consist of a physical infrastructure comprising computer systems, communications networks and standards, and a corresponding management infrastructure for organization, research and development and training. Mohd Yunus said the Ministry would be calling a tender for a contract estimated to be worth well over RM20 million to develop the Nalis standard interchange hub at the Nalis Operations Centre (NOC). This, he said, would house the repository and act as a gateway for database access by relevant agencies. The first phase of the Nalis project has been focused on putting in place the major building blocks for the infrastructure. The Survey and National Mapping Department has a State Cadastral Database, National Topographic Database, Raster Aerial Photograph Database and Thematic Database each of which is currently being built using the Computer-Assisted Land Survey System (CALS), Computer-Assisted Mapping System (CAMS), FMS and Thematic systems. It is envisaged that the State Cadastral and National Topographic Database will be completed for the whole country by the end of 1997. The Land Office is also developing its own spatial database called the Computerised Land Registration System (CLRS), which will link its Kuala Lumpur headquarters to 90 land offices nationwide. The Malaysian Centre for Remote Sensing (MACRES) is on the way to establishing an Image Database which can be used to produce baseline thematic maps that combine image data with planimetric information from the cadastral and topographic database. Utilities departments such as Telecoms, Tenaga Nasional, Waterworks and local authorities are also building geographic databases to describe their holdings and manage their networks. The country also has a National Soil Database and Crop information System that is interconnected. The Valuation Department is currently developing its Landed Property Information System (Lapis) for valuation purposes, while Kuala Lumpur City Hall also has its own spatial property database too- both of which can easily be integrated with the graphic cadastral and spatial land databases. The Public Works Department (PWD) has recently developed the road transportation databases for Peninsular Malaysia. The Regional Economics Sector of EPU is in the process of developing a database using GIS technology, while the Statistics Department has developed a census database.
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