Case Study Project Summary Organization: Innovacion Sistemas y Proyectos (iSP) Solution: Government Location: Cancún, Mexico Project Objective: • Increase property tax collection revenue of municipalities in Mexico. • Modernize cadastral information systems to enable municipalities to collect property taxes more efficiently. • Facilitate cooperation and collaboration among municipal departments by providing a single data source. Products used: Bentley Map MicroStation ProjectWise Bentley Federated GIS Based on Bentley Map Enables Cancún to Collect 66 Percent More Property Tax Innovacion Sistemas y Proyectos Develops GIS Using Bentley Map to Modernize Cadastral Information Systems for Mexican Municipalities Revenue for Government Services Bentley Channel Partner Innovacion Sistemas y Proyectos (iSP) is a leading provider of geospatial information systems (GIS) services to local, state, and federal governments as well as the pharmaceutical industry in Mexico. The City of Cancún retained iSP to modernize its cadastral information systems and increase property tax collection revenue. By creating a federated GIS built on Bentley Map, iSP enabled various departments to access accurate cadastre and cartography data. The federated GIS improved the City’s approach to property tax assessment, enabling the collection of 18 percent more tax revenue within six months and 66 percent by the end of the first year. The City quickly recouped its investment, which represented 10 percent of one year’s tax collection revenue. In one year alone, the City expected to generate a total of USD 12.2 million in additional revenue for government services that will be used to improve quality of life for its citizens. Fast Facts • The Bentley Map-based system provides one-stop access to cadastral, contour, and statistical maps; aerial photography; asset images; and construction activities. As one of the most popular travel destinations in Mexico if not the world, Cancún strives to continually improve the government services it provides to a growing number of citizens and tourists. The challenge is to leverage the City’s limited financial and personnel resources to achieve the best quality of life. Cancún is just one of 2,457 municipalities in Mexico that depend on the federal government for 71 percent of their revenue. The remaining 29 percent of revenue comes from tax collection – most importantly, property tax collection. However, because in many cases their tax collection systems are not yet fully modernized, municipalities in Mexico often take in less revenue than municipalities in other regions of Latin America, and far less than Europe and North America. • The GIS allowed the City to identify merged lots, recognize new properties and unrecorded construction projects, and discover properties with unreported development. ROI • The federated GIS increased collection of tax revenue by 18 percent in six months, providing USD 3.3 million in additional revenue. In the first year it is expected to increase tax revenue to 66 percent for an increase in revenue of USD 12.2 million. • The City quickly recouped its investment, which represented 10 percent of one year’s tax collection revenue. In Cancún, one aspect of the property tax collection system that required modernization was the maintenance of existing land and building property records, as well as the creation of new records for areas under construction within the municipality. Cartography comprised more than 28,000 non-linked files with geo-reference and restitution errors, and incorrect or non-existent cadastre keys. Modernizing the system required working with roughly 2.2 million entries of cadastral data. Another constraint on the municipality’s tax collection performance was the fact that each department maintained its own information system. As a result, data and records were inconsistent in quality, format, and accuracy. Various software applications were used for database management and CAD document management. These variances hindered interdepartmental cooperation. Developing the Cancún GIS iSP developed the Cancún Federated Geospatial Information System to modernize the municipality’s cadastral system, and allow different departments to access and update property records. The USD 1.2 million project implemented Bentley Map, ProjectWise, and MicroStation. In Stage 1 of the two-year project, iSP updated land and building property records, created new construction records, and integrated departmental data into a single cadastral information system. This involved cleaning the data, taking aerial photography of the municipality, and developing photogrammetric restitution maps using the cadastre module of Bentley Map. Aerial photography of 156 square kilometers revealed new construction that had not been reported to the government and had not been subject to appropriate taxation. The City also conducted a Having access to up-to-date, single-source data allows department personnel to better manage information. door-to-door census of the

“Bentley’s software allowed us to provide Cancún City with the best Federated Geospatial Information System in all of Mexico, as well as to conduct an excellent interdepartmental collaboration and project management.” — Jorge Hernández, CEO, Innovacion Sistemas y Proyectos Find out about Bentley at: www.bentley.com Contact Bentley 1-800-BENTLEY (1-800-236-8539) Outside the US +1 610-458-5000 Global Office Listings www.bentley.com/contact entire municipality using mobile devices to capture geo-coordinates, current property data, and images. The next phase integrated data from each of the municipality’s...