Author(s)

Dickson B. Pori^1*, Proches Hieronimo¹, Boniface Hussein Massawe²

¹Department of Agricultural Engineering, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania.
²Department of Soil and Geological Sciences, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania.

Sustainable land use planning is the one that takes into consideration land suitability among other land properties. Sustainable planning is crucial for sustainable land and natural resources management. In Tanzania, conventional urban land planning has been a multidisciplinary process. Nevertheless, this process has been built to follow a procedure which can be considered as a rigid set of procedures set out in planning manuals, and the focus has largely been on the use of few land qualities, mainly slope, steepness, hills, elevation, valleys, vegetation, roads, social-economic data and disregarding other important land qualities such as soil properties. The process is even tedious, because the available data is outdated and in non-spatial order. Other useful information such as base maps is stored in hardcopy format, making it hard for the technicians and decision makers to explore, integrate and analyze the crucial information regarding land use planning. This study was designed to address this missing piece in a jigsaw, by providing a means to collect, manage and integrate land use properties with town planning through the use of geodatabase in ArcGis 10.5. With a basic license, a user can access the information from the database offline using Arc Catalog in ArcGis 10.5. The database was proven to be useful for data collection and management by the end of the study. Integration is convenient in a small scale specifically in offline manner. Web interface will be more reliable in a large scale manner to be accessed through online.

GIS Database, Land Management, Land use Constraints, Urban Planning, Spatial Integrations

Pori, D. , Hieronimo, P. and Massawe, B. (2022) Conception and Practice of Data-Based System for Soil Qualities and Town Planning Information. Current Urban Studies, 10, 525-539. doi: 10.4236/cus.2022.104031.