Land markers to be removed
The Central Luzon regional office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources will remove about 1,000 boundary markers in 13 towns in Pampanga, Bulacan and Zambales to upgrade the region’s surveying and mapping standards.
Leonardo Aggabao, the department’s deputy director for lands management, said the boundary markers, some dating to as far back as the 1930s, shall now be used in the Philippine Reference System of 1992 which provides a standard surveying and mapping reference coordinate system.
Most of the boundary markers have been overtaken by property development with many of them inside titled properties, residential areas and private backyards. Some have been removed to give way to infrastructure development, Aggabao said, contributing to faulty surveying and mapping.
He said at least 100 land conflict cases have been filed by the department in local courts since 2004 alone, mostly stemming from survey overlaps and multiple titling brought about by imprecise surveys and unreliable maps.
“Our maps are generally old, some dating to as far back as the 1900s. If you look at them, they are only a little better than the first maps used by sailors and traders as navigation maps in the 1500s,” Aggabao said.
He said the Philippine Reference System project shall use state-of-the-art Global Positioning System instruments, and using the markers as benchmark, environment department surveyors and geodetic engineers can now correct faulty surveys and accurately stake on the ground the exact provincial and town boundaries from satellite-fed data.
Surveys and maps are prerequisites for better planning and judicious utilization of land and natural resources and form the basis for efficient land administration policies, explained environment regional chief surveyor Junie Fernandez.
He said the Philippine Reference System shall facilitate land titling and transfer of titles, reduce risks of land and property boundary gaps and overlaps, and improve land reform and tenure system.
Dubbed as the mother of all surveys, the Philippine Reference System shall lay down a national network of geodetic control points where all new surveys and maps shall be referred and old surveys shall be integrated, squarely settling land boundary and ownership disputes. Rendy Isip - Manila Standard Today
Leonardo Aggabao, the department’s deputy director for lands management, said the boundary markers, some dating to as far back as the 1930s, shall now be used in the Philippine Reference System of 1992 which provides a standard surveying and mapping reference coordinate system.
Most of the boundary markers have been overtaken by property development with many of them inside titled properties, residential areas and private backyards. Some have been removed to give way to infrastructure development, Aggabao said, contributing to faulty surveying and mapping.
He said at least 100 land conflict cases have been filed by the department in local courts since 2004 alone, mostly stemming from survey overlaps and multiple titling brought about by imprecise surveys and unreliable maps.
“Our maps are generally old, some dating to as far back as the 1900s. If you look at them, they are only a little better than the first maps used by sailors and traders as navigation maps in the 1500s,” Aggabao said.
He said the Philippine Reference System project shall use state-of-the-art Global Positioning System instruments, and using the markers as benchmark, environment department surveyors and geodetic engineers can now correct faulty surveys and accurately stake on the ground the exact provincial and town boundaries from satellite-fed data.
Surveys and maps are prerequisites for better planning and judicious utilization of land and natural resources and form the basis for efficient land administration policies, explained environment regional chief surveyor Junie Fernandez.
He said the Philippine Reference System shall facilitate land titling and transfer of titles, reduce risks of land and property boundary gaps and overlaps, and improve land reform and tenure system.
Dubbed as the mother of all surveys, the Philippine Reference System shall lay down a national network of geodetic control points where all new surveys and maps shall be referred and old surveys shall be integrated, squarely settling land boundary and ownership disputes. Rendy Isip - Manila Standard Today
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