Currently, over hundred private firms are operating with special licenses for surveying, mapping, land management and land rehabilitation activities in Mongolia. In order to monitor human resources and surveying equipments from licensed companies, it is required to develop a unified registration database.                

Main requirements for the surveying licenses are that the firm must have geodetic specialists with a working experience of at least three years and their own surveying equipments, including GPS, Total Station, level and etc. In order to have the license for land management and land rehabilitation the company must employ the following specialists:  land manager, botanist and soil specialists.

The license is issued by the Ministry of Roads, Transportation, Construction and Urban Development.

A registration database was created with MS Access for the purpose of managing licensing activity, which has ten linked tables containing all kind of license related data as well as four look-up tables. Here, company registration numbers were used as a reference in order to link all the tables. User interfaces are developed for data entry and maintenance.