Providing mapping support at the ground level
SOLA supports cadastre and registration functions and services provided by land offices. SOLA provides land administration agencies an enterprise level system, incorporating international best practice and standards. SOLA is designed to facilitate the essential customization required to meet specific needs of a country.
SOLA is open source software with supporting documents available, and its customization is always the first step in implementation. The level of customization efforts varies from country to country and depends on local context (e.g. legislation and rules, previous experience with other systems, common practices and local standards). Therefore, while applying SOLA customization, if needed with the help of experts, local developers have to be engaged and involved. In this way, FAO encourages software development skills transfer to ensure in-country expertise to maintain and extend local implementations of SOLA.
Who needs SOLA?
Although SOLA can be used to establish a land registration and cadaster system, it is seen as beneficial more so for small countries which have little capacity and funds to develop a new system, or countries which can learn from the business processes and use SOLA applications as a prototype or starting point for further expansion and development, etc. If a country requires SOLA implementation, it can use the SOLA deployment checklist, prepared by FAO to assess country readiness and provide further recommendations.
Online resources
For developers:
SOLA Web Admin
- Date: December 2020
- Source code version: version 1.3
- Source code repository: https://github.com/SOLA-WA-FAO/
- Changes from previous version: simplified installation (available at https://github.com/OpenTenure/Docker/), source code quality improvement, libraries updates, improved technical documentation
- License
Source Code Repositories
- SOLA Registry source codes (https://github.com/SOLA-FAO/)
- SOLA State Land (https://github.com/SOLA-SL-FAO)
- SOLA Systematic Registration (https://github.com/SOLA-SR-FAO)
- SOLA Web Admin source codes (https://github.com/SOLA-WA-FAO)
Technical Documentation
- SOLA Installation Guide For Ubuntu
- SOLA Installation Guide For Windows
- SOLA Desktop Administration Guide
For users:
- SOLA Systematic Registration User Guide
Click to view key SOLA features, available for further customization:
Click to view key SOLA features, available for further customization:
- Fully open source, based on the best practices and well-known platforms and tools;
- Based on LADM (ISO19152);
- Multilingual – currently supports 10 languages (English, Arabic, French, Italian, Spanish, Khmer, Russian, Portuguese, Albanian, Vietnamese);
- Implements robust security model with clearly defined user roles and secured data exchange;
- Cross-platform;
- Fully integrated land registry and cadastre functions;
- Allows logging and processing of various applications (services) for land-related transactions;
- Implements interactive customizable map for displaying and editing land parcels;
- Creates workflows based on requested service type;
- Applies digital archive function;
- Automatically generates land title certificate, including parcel map;
- Contains various reports;
- Implements various searches (parcel, property, person, document);
- Applies customizable business rules engine;
- Integrates and implements systematic registration functions, allowing data combining from various sources;
- Implements state land management functions.