GeoCommunicator is the publication site for the National Integrated Land System providing searching, accessing, and dynamic mapping of data for federal land stewardship, land and mineral use records, mining claims, and the public land survey system! For details for go to the GeoCommunicator Module.

Data Call - We are looking for Public Land Survey System (PLSS) data from other agencies to help complete a multipurpose cadastre for the U.S. For more information, please visit the Land Survey Information System Website and select "Contribute Data".

The National Integrated Land System (NILS) is a joint project between the BLM and the USDA Forest Service in partnership with the states, counties, and private industry to provide business solutions for the management of cadastral records and land parcel information in a Geographic Information System (GIS) environment. NILS provides a process to collect, maintain, and store parcel-based land and survey information that meets the common, shared business needs of land title and land resource management. The NILS project is being developed in four modules: Survey Management (S), Measurement Management (M), Parcel Management (P), and GeoCommunicator (G).

Survey measurement layer with other parcel data

NILS provides the user with tools to manage land records and cadastral data in a "Field-to-Fabric" manner. The user can use field survey measurement data directly from the survey measuring equipment, manipulate this data into lines and points, and create legal land and parcel descriptions to be used in mapping and land record maintenance.

NILS has unified the worlds of surveying and GIS. This unification process is fundamental for land records managers and maintainers of cadastral mapping databases to improve the accuracy and quality of the data, to create standard land descriptions and cadastral data that can be used by anyone.

Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) GIS technology forms the foundation of NILS.  Based on industry standards, including the Component Object Model (COM) and object-oriented (OO) technology, the software provides a modern development platform for NILS.  Object-oriented software engineering techniques will be used to extend the COTS to meet the specific needs of NILS users.

For more information on all the modules go to the Modules Section.

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NILS Partners

Bureau of Land Management | U. S. Forest Service |

ESRI | CTAC | FGDC | Fairview Industries | Oakland County, MI |