Town PlanningMpanda CBD Regularisation Scheme
01Mpanda, Katavi — 2024
Boundary survey and layout regularisation across an unplanned settlement block, producing an approved subdivision scheme.
We measure the ground
others guess at.
Cadastral, engineering and aerial survey work across Katavi and western Tanzania documented so it holds up years later.
Founded2013
BaseMpanda, Katavi
DisciplineLand & Geospatial
Cadastral SurveysDeed PlansGNSS ControlUAV MappingSetting OutSubdivision SchemesTopographic SurveysGIS & Land RecordsAs-Built VerificationCorridor Surveys
01The practice
Evidence, notassurances.
Land surveying is a profession where small errors compound quietly. A beacon half a metre out is invisible on the day and expensive a decade later. We built this practice around removing that risk.
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480+
Surveys delivered
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14
Regions covered
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12
Years in practice
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100%
Registered & licensed
02Capabilities
Eight service lines.One standard.
If your project spans several of these — most do — we scope them as one mobilisation rather than billing you to visit the same site four times.
01
Cadastral & Title Surveys
Boundary definition, beacon placement and deed plans prepared to the standards required for title registration.
02
Topographic & Detail Surveys
Contoured ground models and detail pick-up that give designers a truthful picture of the site before a line is drawn.
03
Town Planning & Land Subdivision
Layout schemes and subdivision drawings that balance what the land allows against what the regulations require.
04
Geodetic & GNSS Control
Primary and secondary control networks observed with dual-frequency GNSS and adjusted to national datum.
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UAV Aerial Mapping
Drone photogrammetry for orthophotos, surface models and volume computation across sites too large to walk.
06
GIS & Land Information
Spatial databases and land information systems that turn scattered records into something you can query.
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Construction Setting Out
Setting out, monitoring and as-built verification that keeps a structure where the drawing says it should be.
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Route & Corridor Surveys
Long, narrow surveys for roads, transmission lines, pipelines and water schemes — including way-leave definition.
03Aerial capture
Ground truth,
from 120 metres up.
Ground-controlled UAV flights turn a week of walking into an afternoon of flying — and produce an orthomosaic every stakeholder can read without a survey background.
04Selected work
Ground we havealready covered.
Cadastral, corridor, aerial and construction work delivered across Katavi and the wider western regions.
Town Planning
Route SurveyKatavi Trunk Road Corridor
02Katavi Region — 2024
Corridor strip survey with long and cross sections supporting design of an upgraded regional trunk route.
CadastralAgricultural Estate Title Survey
03Mlele District — 2023
Perimeter survey, beacon placement and deed plan preparation for a large agricultural holding.
UAV MappingQuarry Volume Monitoring
04Western Tanzania — 2023
Repeat drone flights with ground control producing monthly stockpile volumes and extraction surfaces.
ConstructionInstitutional Building Set-Out
05Mpanda — 2023
Site grid establishment, foundation setting out and as-built verification for a multi-storey institutional build.
GISDistrict Land Records Digitisation
06Katavi Region — 2022
Conversion of paper parcel records into a queryable spatial database with a hand-over training programme.
05How we work
The same four steps,every time.
Nothing here is improvised. The order exists because doing it any other way is how errors get built into a file.
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Brief & site recon
We walk the ground with you, confirm the extent, check existing records at the registry and tell you plainly what the job needs.
02
Control & field capture
Control is observed and adjusted first. Only then does detail capture begin — GNSS, total station or UAV depending on the terrain.
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Computation & drafting
Observations are reduced, checked against independent closures and drafted into the plan set your approval pathway requires.
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Checking & lodgement
A second surveyor checks every plan before it leaves the office. We then lodge it and follow it through the approval queue.
01How long does a cadastral survey take?
Field work on a typical urban plot takes a day. The determining factor is almost always the approval queue at the lands office, not the survey itself — we will give you a realistic timeline at the briefing stage.
02Do you work outside Katavi Region?
Yes. Mpanda is our base, but we mobilise across the western regions and beyond for corridor, estate and UAV projects.
03What do I need to provide before you start?
Any existing title documents, prior survey plans, sale agreements or sketch plans you hold. If nothing exists, we start with a records search.
04Can you handle a boundary dispute?
We can re-establish boundaries from record evidence and produce a technical report on the findings. Where a matter is in dispute, that report is prepared to be defensible.
05Do you supply drawings in CAD format?
Yes — layered DWG or DXF as standard, alongside PDF plan sets. GIS deliverables are supplied as shapefiles or geopackage.
→Start a project
Tell us about the groundyou need measured.
Send the plot details, the district and what the survey is for. You get a scope, a timeline and a fixed quote — not an estimate that moves later.