1. Presented By: Reham Mohammed Aly Hafez By: Tiffany Potter Web Address: http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/fall04articles/gis-helps-touba.html Topic Number: 9 Date: November 19, 2004

2. The location The location The Khalif General, face a problem when he attempted to distribute parcels of land to his people. In the past, land had been given away to followers of the Khalif's family without formal documentation. the Khalif had no way of knowing the names of these people or the land locations The Khalif General, face a problem when he attempted to distribute parcels of land to his people. In the past, land had been given away to followers of the Khalif's family without formal documentation. the Khalif had no way of knowing the names of these people or the land locations city of Touba, Senegal, West Africa, Case study problem Case study problem

3. Available Data Available Data Thousands of unorganized and unformatted paper were the names of people who had received land. Thousands of unorganized and unformatted paper were the names of people who had received land. Decision Decision There is a need to Technical Support to face the population growth and its need of land So: Small tax was created on the population to fund the project. Small tax was created on the population to fund the project. A database to collect and store tax information would also need to be created A database to collect and store tax information would also need to be created

4. The Technical Support companies The Technical Support companies local company MTS Afrique & ESRI Business Partner Scientific Technologies Corporation (STC). The Technical Software The Technical Software MTS Afrique and STC chose Map Objects LT 2 because of: MTS Afrique and STC chose Map Objects LT 2 because of: Its speed and lightweight properties. It integrated well with the Visual Basic code. It also worked well for scaling an application was created using ArcGIS Desktop 8.2 and ArcView 3.x

5.  The challenges in Touba was : system should has the ability to switch between French and English. —Because of the multilingual needs of the user.  To face city's needs, a land records ID system was established,. SIGGIL also facilitated the creation of tax accounts and payments made against these accounts. Software Application Software Application

6. Council members are able to find a property by the owner's name, or location on a map. Utilizing GIS. maps are sent with background satellite imagery to neighborhood representatives for review the ownership. City leaders able to determine locations of construction of new buildings which are necessary according population growth. The Touba Mosque

7. SIGGIL is capable of expanding to support additional services,like : Tracking & monitoring. analysis of community facilities. population health information. environmental and hygiene data, as well as various community services.