GIS-based real estate legislation information system design: The case of İzmir, Foça

Abstract

Due to the rapidly increasing world population, the management of limited and non-renewable land is an inevitable reality for the whole world. While planning the land management, the management of the real estates (e.g. building, parcel) is another topic that needs to be planned. While the real estates are used by the citizens for purposes such as agricultural production, accommodation and lease, they have been the subject of tax due to the economic value they have for the central and local governments. Therefore, the need to legally evaluate, define and registry real estates has appeared. The main motivation in the current study is to present the legal legislations (e.g. law, regulation) that the real estate is responsible for due to different main criteria (e.g. owner, location, type, intended use, acquisition form, encumbrance) on a single platform. In this context, İzmir/Foça was chosen as the study area. Then, the spatial and attributive features of each real estate were determined. The legislation information that is responsible for these features was introduced in the attribute table together with the router link. In this way, the originality of the study, which distinguishes it from the existing applications, has been revealed. As a result, legislative information that will enable more accurate decisions to be made for each real estate has been presented with a user-friendly interface.