Accurately locating a piece of land in the Philippines will no longer be a problem, with the recent deployment in the Internet of the Philippines, first fully-automated Web GIS parcellary mapping service, the Philippine Chamber of Real Estate and Builders Association (CREBA) announced.

Known as MapSys.Ph, this pioneering system at www.mapsys.ph was painstakingly designed and built by CREBALAND, the technical arm of CREBA.

According to CREBA founder and chairman Atty. Manuel M. Serrano, this new mapping facility can generate an accurate lot plan and information-packed vicinity map for any given parcel anywhere in the country, right in front of the user’s computer screen.

Colorful and professionally laid-out, the facility’s output displays the parcel polygon overlaid on a vicinity map containing multi-layers of spatial information, such as major and minor road networks, rivers and waterways networks, railroad network, LGU-approved land use, SAFDZ, land cover, Ecozones, administrative boundaries from the provincial down to barangay level, elevation and slope, fault lines, banks, schools, churches, hospitals, commercial/industrial establishments, tourist establishments, utilities and many others.

“The map is immediately downloadable after the user enters the parcel’s technical descriptions from either a title or a survey plan or any other source document,” Serrano said.

Since the service is available nationwide and globally in the internet, anyone from anywhere who is interested in Philippine real estate, including OFWs and foreign investors, need only to log on to MapSys.Ph to get an accurate map of the property with the comprehensive information needed, Serrano said.

With unprecedented speed and convenience, MapSys.Ph resolves the most common problem of banks, appraisers, brokers, potential buyers and investors pinpointing a land parcel offered for sale or as loan collateral, without having to take expensive, time consuming trips to the claimed location.

Since the system uses official geodetic control points, commonly known as tie points, MapSys.Ph users are reasonable assured of the accuracy of the relative geographic position/location, configuration and boundaries of the parcel as depicted in the map outputs.

The system also uses a dynamic scale that adjusts according to the size of the parcel. Thus, in contrast to rudimentary digital maps, the geographic details in the MapSys output are never too small to be practically useless to the user.

“MapSys.Ph is extremely user-friendly and does not require any orientation for its use,” Serrano said.