Great explanations!

I am trying to find the location of the Awitu Mendera Kebele. Would you know I can do that?

lauren

Kind regards,
Sander

Thanks for your comment! If the information on your website is correct, OpenStreetMap indeed could be a better solution than GoogleMaps in this scenario.

However, both GoogleMaps and OpenStreetMap are not a complete solution on its own. As is stated in my thesis, the complexities involved with Ethiopia’s land administration go far beyond choosing appropriate the software. If a properly functioning information system harbouring all spatial data and tailored to the organizations’ changing(!) needs could be designed, developed and implemented, it indeed would be interesting to visualize it by using an open internet based map system like GoogleMaps or OpenStreetMap. It should be noted however that as soon as such an information system is developed, it is only very little effort to connect to the map software using an API (tutorials can be found all over the web).

Some further drawbacks popping up in my head right now are:
- you need stable internet and electricity;
- you need to pay special attention to both security and privacy issues as you’re about to connect a government system containing very valuable and often private information to the internet.

In short: yes it seems to be better than GoogleMaps, but it is not a complete solution – and in this case only a complete solution is a real solution.

I hope this is any help to you.

Sander

I downloaded your thesis and had a brief look. I think they should use OpenStreetMap for land administration What do you think?

Alex

BR from Addis Abeba, Alexander