TITLE:
Conception and Practice of Data-Based System for Soil Qualities and Town Planning Information
AUTHORS:
Dickson B. Pori, Proches Hieronimo, Boniface Hussein Massawe
KEYWORDS:
GIS Database, Land Management, Land use Constraints, Urban Planning, Spatial Integrations
JOURNAL NAME:
Current Urban Studies,
Vol.10 No.4,
October
26,
2022
ABSTRACT: Sustainable land use planning is the one that takes into consideration
land suitability among other land properties. Sustainable planning is crucial
for sustainable land and natural resources management. In Tanzania, conventional urban land
planning has been a multidisciplinary process. Nevertheless, this process has
been built to follow a procedure which can be considered as a rigid set of
procedures set out in planning manuals, and the focus has largely been on the
use of few land qualities, mainly
slope, steepness, hills, elevation, valleys, vegetation, roads, social-economic
data and disregarding other important land qualities such as soil properties.
The process is even tedious, because the available data is outdated and in non-spatial order. Other useful
information such as base maps is stored in hardcopy format, making it hard for the technicians and
decision makers to explore, integrate and analyze the crucial information
regarding land use planning. This study was designed to address this missing
piece in a jigsaw, by providing a means to collect, manage and integrate land
use properties with town planning through the use of geodatabase in ArcGis
10.5. With a basic license, a user
can access the information from the database offline using Arc Catalog in
ArcGis 10.5. The database was proven to be useful for data collection and
management by the end of the study. Integration is convenient in a small scale
specifically in offline manner. Web interface will be more reliable in a large
scale manner to be accessed through online.