Egypt has developed a special urban cadastral system, General Authority for space, and the Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources, using free open source software, which is software that has proven its efficiency and reliability for the implementation of mega-projects low cost and high quality.

The urban cadastral project is Is a system depends on the order of registration according to the sites objects where allocated for each building.

It was developed by an open source software such as a content management system (Joomla), the programming language (PHP), the database management syste, (MySQL), and Apache to create web servers.

Also, It was relying on an open-source operating system based on Linux to run the devices used in the registration ubon the project phases. They used Ubuntu.

In the first phase of the project, The Free and open source software helped to safe nearly five million Egyptian pounds from licensing and operating costs.

The Egyptian national project goal is register 25 million real estate unit free of charge, a project that has been designated a six phases at a cost of two billion pounds.

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