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What this platform does with land evidence, what each label on a record means, and what it deliberately refuses to do.
The one thing to take away
Most land systems reduce a complicated reality to a single name. That is where the harm starts: a name in a database acquires an authority the underlying evidence never had, and a person who merely claims something becomes indistinguishable from a person whose right the state has recorded.
This platform never does that. A parcel has parties, each holding an interest, and every interest carries the level at which it is actually asserted:
Two parties can hold competing interests at the same level, and the record will show both. It will not choose between them, because that is a matter for a court.
A boundary on a screen invites the belief that someone surveyed it. Usually nobody did. Every boundary here declares its origin, and is drawn differently so the distinction survives colour-blindness and printing:
These describe what was checked, not what anyone believes. They are applied by a reviewer, and an adverse status cannot be set without a recorded reason.
Every stored file is hashed with SHA-256 when it arrives. That is a statement about bytes and nothing else. A forged deed, scanned and uploaded, will have a perfectly stable hash. Whether the document is genuine is a separate question, answered, or explicitly not answered, by its verification status.
We do not use blockchains, distributed ledgers, or any other mechanism that implies technology can settle a question of title. It cannot.
Nine automated checks run over the records held for a parcel. Each produces a prompt for a human reviewer. None of them concludes anything.
All land in Ogun State is vested in the Governor under the Land Use Act 1978. A holder has a right of occupancy, not absolute ownership, and most transfers need the Governor’s consent. OpenLandRegistry is an independent evidence service, not the Bureau of Lands and Survey: a claim recorded here is not proof of title, and a search result shown here describes the record on the date of the search.
Land information creates physical, financial and identity risk. Access is deny-by-default and enforced on the server for every record, not by hiding controls in the interface.
Document metadata is far more visible than document files. The public can see that a deed exists, who issued it and whether it was verified, without the file , which routinely contains signatures, identity numbers and financial terms.
Identity documents, signatures, phone numbers, private addresses, dates of birth and full financial documents are never published, at any access level, regardless of what a record’s visibility says.
If something here is wrong, tell us. A reviewer reads every submission, and nothing on the public record changes until one acts. Corrections are recorded alongside what they correct, the earlier state is not erased, because how a record changed is often the most useful thing about it.
Geometry is stored in WGS 84 (EPSG:4326). Survey data arriving on another datum, in Lagos, commonly Minna belt coordinates, is reprojected on ingest, with the source system recorded. Areas are computed on the ellipsoid rather than in degrees, and the figure the documents state is kept separately from the figure the geometry measures, so a disagreement between them is visible rather than resolved silently.
A flag that a reviewer closes stays on the record with the reason it was closed. If the underlying facts return, the check raises it again, a dismissal is not a permanent silence.
Equally: no flags is not a clean bill of health. It means nothing in the records held here tripped a check. A defect that left no trace in these records is invisible to every one of them.
These rules are data, not code. Adding a jurisdiction means writing its terminology, tenure types, required documents and verification rules, not modifying the application.