Integrating Cadastral gis database into gps navigation System for Locating Land Parcel Location

manually. The surveyor may take time to go and find the location 
of the work site only by referring the certified plan especially in 
the area that not really familiarize with it. They may take a few 
days in locating the area. They also need to find the land owner to 
conform the location of the lot parcel. Therefore, using this new 
portable GPS that has been integrated with cadastral GIS 
database, it can help surveyor to save their time to reach at lot 
parcel. This automatically saves their time in locating the 
boundary mark. It helped surveyor when the lot parcel now can 
also be navigated in this portable GPS. Therefore, in this paper 
will study on the integration of land parcel data in the Malaysian 
Cadastral database (PDUK) into GPS system to assist surveyor in 
locating parcel location based lot number of the land.
Keyword: GPS, cadastral survey, navigation system, Boundary 
mark. 
I. 
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NTRODUCTION
The use of portable GPS tracking and GPS navigation 
systems has certainly made life a lot easier and convenient for 
professionals from fields like geology, surveying, archeology, 
mapping, forestry, transport, avionics, and search and rescue as 
the GPS system capable of guiding the direction to the selected 
destination. Usually users are using the existing map in the 
GPS navigation system where the spatial data is limited to the 
data provided by the company that market the product. Portable 
GPS units are also used widely for regular civilian activities 
like navigating your car through traffic, for finding road 
directions in a new area, for finding the route when hiking, 
biking or walking [1]. GPS tracking system can be used to 
keep an eye on your children or your pets. There are a few of 
types of portable GPS that are dedicated GPS navigation 
devices, such as mobile phones with GPS capability, Laptop 
PC GPS and GPS modules [2]. In this project, cadastral 
database will be integrated into the Garmin Portable GPS 
database to help surveyor locate the land parcel using the 
portable GPS navigation system 
Based on Malaysian cadastral system a boundary marker, 
boundary stone or border stone is a robust physical marker that 
identifies the start of a land boundary or the change in a 
boundary, especially a change in a direction of a boundary. 
They have often been used to mark critical points on 
boundaries between countries or local administrations but have 
also been used to mark out the limits of private land-holdings 
especially in areas where fences or walls are impractical or 
unnecessary. Boundary markers are often made of stone and 
are typically placed at a notable or especially visible point. 
Many are inscribed with relevant information such as the 
abbreviation of the boundary holder and often a date. Boundary 
markers may be used to mark property boundaries (land-
ownership), or political boundaries. 
Malaysia Department of Surveying and Mapping 
(JUPEM) is the government department that responsible on 
managing of PDUK data .The PDUK data covering the study 
area will be downloaded into a portable GPS to add a more 
specific database which include land parcel in GPS database . 
The PDUK data is containing the specific information of the lot 
parcel such as bearing ,distance, area, coordinate and boundary 
mark code that had been approved by the Department. PDUK 
database is managed and maintained by Geography 
Information System (GIS) and that invove a few of software 
such as ArcView, Spatial Data Engine, Oracle and Microsoft 
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Access Extension in it management. The structure of PDUK 
contained 3 information of layer that area Lot Cadastral 
(LOT.shp), boundary layer (BDY.shp) and boundary mark 
layer (STONE.shp).
TABLE 1 
Data structure of GIS cadastral database 
II. 
Hardware Software 
Two-portable hardware were utilized in this study including a 
computer and hand-held GPS, which functioned as the data 
conversion as well as editing and GPS receiver, GARMIN GPS 
is a navigation system with added value of cadastral database 
to provide a guiding tool in cadastral surveying. The database 
is developed on a PC computer and then installed onto a hand-
held device. Applications are developed and tested on site 
environment. Database preparation was performed using the 
Map Info to develop cadastral database, Global Mapper 
software to change the Map Info data into GPS exchange data, 
MapSource to create point of interest, MapEdit to convert GPX 
format into IMG format and Sendmap20 to upload database 
into handheld GPS.
III. 
Designing Cadastral Navigation System 
Developing Cadastral navigation system is the process of 
improving the basic solution obtained from low cost navigation 
sensors for land mobile applications. This is achieved through 
the integration of Malsing map provided by the navigation 
instruments with small scale additional spatial information 
contained within a PUDK database. In the majority of current 
real-time GPS navigation systems, a low cost GPS receiver is 
used to provide information on the handheld GPS’s position, 
and a Geographic Information System (GIS) is used to provide 
location details based on the Malsing base map for Malaysia 
and Singapore. 
With the higher accuracy PDUK information contained in 
Cadastral GIS, data can be extracted and integrated into the 
GPS navigation solution. Instead of using large scale spatial to 
navigate through main road a more accurate data from 
cadastral database integrated into Garmin navigation system 
for locating a more specific land parcel. This type of 
integration offers a solution that is capable of improving the 
accessibility and performance of low cost, low precision 
sensors for locating any specific land lot with GPS navigation 
system. Generally the process of constructing GPS database for 
cadastral navigation system is shown in the Figure 1. The 
Malsing map is the based map in Garmin Navigation system in 
order to suit the navigation system with cadastral application 
all the data in the cadastral database need to be uploaded into 
Garmin navigation system.
Figure 1. Workflow of the study 
IV. 
Data Extraction from Map Info Professional 
An early study is necessary to determine what is the 
essential spatial data format that to display map in the 
Garmin navigation system. In Malaysia cadastral database 
Map Info Professional is Used a the main software to keep 
all the information on the boundary and lot number as well 
as all the relevant attribute such as the owner name, bearing , 
distance and coordinates of all corners. Beside that it also 
keep the data on the general location of the land parcel which