Press Release: MNC chosen to create a national digital cadastre for Barbados

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Calgary, AB, November 28, 2022: Martin Newby Consulting Ltd. (MNC) is pleased to announce that they have been chosen to create a national digital cadastre for the island of Barbados. This project will ultimately be used to help improve economic development and social improvement.

The Government of Barbados (GOB) is looking to modernize their land administration processes starting with the creation of a national cadastre; the National Digital Parcel Fabric (NDPF). The goal of the NDPF project is to create a single, complete, trusted, and sustainable digital cadastre for Barbados. This project is being executed through the ministerial unit responsible for implementing Barbados’ Public Sector Modernization Programme – the Programme Execution Unit within the Ministry of Industry, Innovation, Science and Technology (MIST). The GOB’s Lands and Surveys Department, the local subject matter expert, is also providing general project management and technical guidance.

MNC was selected to provide the services, including but not limited to project management, creating, and populating an ArcGIS Pro parcel fabric data model for Barbados, creating over 123,000 land parcels, and training support in Esri’s ArcGIS Pro parcel fabric for the GOB team.

MNC in collaboration with GOB started this project on August 31, 2022. Esri’s ArcGIS Pro was the technology chosen to create the parcel fabric. The teams have been fully engaged and cohesively working together to complete the first of five project milestones.

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The MNC team looks forward to delivering the NDPF to Barbados, which will be the foundation for a land information platform to support GOB’s policies with respect to economic development and social improvement through land and housing.

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About MNC Ltd.
Established in 1998, MNC is a geomatics engineering firm located in Calgary, Alberta. Their team of geomatics engineers and GIS specialists are experts in the compilation and maintenance of cadastral and parcel mapping. They specialize in working with large datasets (city/county/province-wide) across multiple formats and platforms. Their goal is to always provide clients with practical and innovative solutions. Projects thought impossible, overly expensive, or excessively complicated are their specialty. MNC is an Esri Bronze Business Partner and an FME® Safe Software Service Partner. Learn more at www.mncl.ca.

For further information, please contact:
Ellen Styner
Suite 1550
635-8 Avenue SW
Calgary, AB, Canada
T2P 3M3
ellen@3.98.126.181
(403) 294-1028