Friday 17 October 2008, San José, Costa
Rica
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Years; Landslide Shuts Down Interamericana Norte
TLC One Step
Closer To Reality
March In Support Of
Building New Stadium
Tomorrow
Topographical,
Farm Surveys Can Now Be Registered Via
Internet
LAPT Begins Second
Season In Costa Rica
Chinchilla Kicks
Off Her Pre-Campaign With Tour Of
Caribbean
Max Got Rained On
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Topographical, Farm
Surveys Can Now Be
Registered Via Internet
(Infocom) - With the
goal of better
organizing and
expediting the
registration of
agricultural tract and
topographical surveys,
the government will make
available starting this
month an online tool for
such a purpose, which is
expected to reduce the
time it takes
professionals and users
to do this kind of
paperwork and offer
higher levels of
security.
The Internet-based APT
information system links
all agencies involved in
the registration of
farmland and
topographical surveys,
making such procedural
tasks cheaper and
reducing the amount of
time it takes to process
them. Additionally, the
system allows to store
all of this information
digitally and permits
automatic access to it.
Another advantage is
that the registration
process will become
centralized, as users
can register their
surveys in a single
place under the same
procedure.
In its first phase, the
APT system will be
available only for the
registration procedures
that professionals must
carry out before the
Engineers and Architects
Federated Association (CFIA).
This entity hopes that
in the next few months
the National Registry
will join this digital
managing system to
provide more security to
the registration of lots
and farms. Once both
institutions become
electronically
interlinked, it is
expected that paperwork
that currently takes up
to two months to
complete will be done in
as few as eight day.
Such a step toward
incorporation of
technology would be key
to facilitating the
professional exercise of
topography, thus
providing better service
to landowners throughout
the country and
increasing the level of
organization and safety
of property records.
The APT technology is
similar to the
Construction Project
Administrator (APC),
which has been used in
the country for the past
three years to allow
engineers and architects
to register construction
blueprints with CFIA.
The new system for
topographical surveys is
dynamic, flexible,
simple and user-friendly
for topography
professionals who will
be using it.
The announcement about
this system was made at
a time when three
Guanacaste cantons
(Santa Cruz, Liberia and
Carrillo) are among the
top 10 in the country
with the most square
meters of land
registered with CFIA in
the January-August
period.
Countrywide, a total of
6,700,711 new square
meters in construction
projects have been
registered this year,
meaning the construction
sector has retained the
dynamism shown in the
past few years — for a
growth of 25 percent
compared to last year.
This year, the Northern
Zone canton of San
Carlos leads the pack
with the highest number
of projects registered
in the country, for a
total of 1,216 surveys.
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