James Muricho,
CEO
Shambamap
Primulavägen 36,
80638 Gävle
Sweden
To all surveyors and anyone who can a computer worldwide
Shambamap is now offering a unique opportunity for all surveyors, and practically anyone who can use a computer, worldwide. If you know a surveyor without a job who is looking to build their careers and create an opportunity to earn a 20% commission on some of the transactions on Shambamap, forward this message to them.
Shambamap is now carrying out the digitization of Kenya's Cadastral Maps in its repository. There are 47 counties in Kenya and 3 (Mombasa, Nairobi, Kajiado) have been digitized.
Shambamap has made a model allowing surveyors, or IT enthusiasts, to register on Shambamap as Shambamap Registered Surveyors for KES 22000 and from there select a county to digitize. The application process is such that the surveyor(s) send a request to james.muricho@shambamap.org by selecting a county, I determine if the county has already been selected, and then if it is not selected, payment details are sent to the surveyor.
The payment should be made within 7 working days via SWIFT bank transfer.
Please note that the counties with most sheets are the ones with the highest potential for making massive profit, and also some folders have duplicate sheets of the same data.
Data (root data)
The main data are the scanned Registry Index Maps and Folio Registers hosted on http://shambamap.hopto.org/Kenya/RIMs and http://shambamap.hopto.org/Kenya/RIMs/FRs/
If you as the surveyor, or IT enthusiast, wants a copy of a particular County/Region, for example Kiambu County or Nakuru County, and because downloading a region file by file is time consuming, you can send an email to james.muricho@shambamap.org, specify a county or counties you want, and then instructions will be sent to you about how to pay for the disk and shipping costs. The disk will be sent during the weekend after payment.
The reason for amassing data into a central place is to ensure Shambamap users use the same dataset when working. New data can come in periodically as mutations on parcels occur. I am also taking up the responsibility of updating the scanned data so that there are minimal duplicates.
Shambamap Model in relation to surveyors
Shambamap does not pay any surveyor for digitizing data. Shambamap carried out a trial period during which Shambamap tested the model for a specific survey company, based in Kenya, would update data to Shambamap. This was the only time Shambamap paid for the task of georeferencing and digitizing the data into Shapefiles.
Shambamap's current model is as such because there are many surveying companies and surveyors who need to build a dataset from which they earn money from on a regular basis, build trust with players in the real-estate market in Africa, build a relationship with landowners in Africa, and also expand across Africa.
Shambamap's model is such that IT enthusiasts, surveyors or surveying firms (Shambamap Registered Surveyors):
How does the Shambamap model generate income for surveying firms?
Shambamap, from 1st November 2024, will start hosting over-the-top services. Open https://shambamap.org and then click on a parcel. A popup with a list of services offered by Shambamap appears.
Shambamap will pay the Shambamap Registered Surveyors a 20% commission on all transactions carried out on a parcel of land that they have digitized, except during mutations. A mutation means that a parcel has been surveyed again, and it is therefore a new parcel of land. But this is not always the case with transactions.
If an owner registers on Shambamap for KES 2000 or a sale is registered on Shambamap for KES 4000, the Shambamap system submits the 20% of these two types of transactions to the Shambamap Registered Surveyor who digitized them. This offers a lot of potential as this means that a single county like Nakuru or Kiambu, with over 100000 parcels can provide over ca KES 80 million a year in revenue.
This is not all. Due Diligence reports require tracing information about the digitization as well and this therefore opens doors to the Shambamap Registered Surveyor to provide additional services payable directly to the Shambamap Registered Surveyor if the landowner or land buyer or agent (sometimes it is a lawyer) so chooses. (Shambamap hold the right to take out commissions for such transactions in the future but currently the Shambamap Registered Surveyor will get full payment until Shambamap decides otherwise).
Therefore, Shambamap is a good tool for surveying companies wanting to make inroads into Africa. This means you can partner with other survey firms or surveyors in Africa and expand into other fields such as Lidar, RS, and other surveying fields.
Contract
The contract will be based on the County selected after the payment of KES 22000 is registered. I will nevertheless send you the data. The data, all data, is open-source and anyone can download and use it for any legal purpose. It is a first-come first-serve offer.
To certify this contract, there is a minimum digitizing and georeferencing limit of 30 sheets a day after the first one month. This means surveyors will have to work as teams of at least ten surveyors per team.
There is potential for making over Euros 1 million a year for certain counties directly from commissions. There's also huge potential for expanding to other countries in Africa.
I need to say that there are two types of data on Shambamap:
1. Digital Spatial Data - which is free for all and open-source. All data provided by surveyors will be under the MIT License
2. Personal Data - controlled by GDPR EU laws. This data will only be accessible after permission is granted by the data owner
Sincerely,
James Muricho