Document, Verify, and Protect Your Land Claims
Draw your parcel boundaries, attach evidence, gather community attestations, and resolve overlapping claims — all on one transparent platform.
Everything You Need to Secure Your Land
A complete toolkit for documenting, verifying, and protecting land claims through participatory mapping and community consensus.
Draw Parcel Boundaries
Use GPS, satellite imagery, or hand-drawn maps to define your land boundaries with precision.
Attach Evidence
Upload documents, photos, witness statements, and historical records to strengthen your claim.
Community Attestations
Invite neighbors and community leaders to verify your land boundaries and usage history.
Overlap Detection
Automatically detect when claims overlap and get routed into structured dispute resolution.
Dispute Resolution
Country-specific pathways guide claimants through mediation, evidence exchange, and resolution.
Country-Aware Configuration
Claim types, dispute steps, and evidence requirements adapt to local land governance frameworks.
How It Works
Three simple steps to document and protect your land claim on the blockchain of community trust.
Draw Your Boundaries
Use our interactive map to draw your parcel boundaries. Choose from GPS points, satellite imagery tracing, or upload a hand-drawn sketch.
- Dual map providers: Mapbox & OpenStreetMap
- Automatic area calculation
- Coordinate precision up to centimeters
Document Your Claim
Select your claim type, describe your relationship to the land, upload supporting evidence, and invite community witnesses.
- Multiple claim types per country
- Photo, document, and video evidence
- Community attestation requests
Verify & Resolve
Your claim is published publicly (minus PII). If overlaps are detected, structured dispute resolution pathways help reach consensus.
- Automatic overlap detection
- Country-specific dispute pathways
- Transparent resolution process
Explore the Public Claims Map
Browse verified land claims from around the world. Search by location, view parcel boundaries, and understand land tenure patterns in your area.
Interactive Map Preview
Search publicly documented claims
Built for Real-World Land Challenges
From rural farms to urban settlements, LegitimateLand supports diverse land tenure scenarios across the globe.
Customary Land Rights
Document traditional and customary land ownership that predates formal registration systems.
Community elders attest to generational land use
Smallholder Farming
Protect agricultural plots against encroachment and support tenure security for rural farmers.
Farmers map their plots with GPS-enabled devices
Urban Settlements
Establish documented claims for informal urban settlements seeking formal recognition.
Settlement committees verify household boundaries
Community Forests
Protect shared natural resources by documenting community-managed forests and water sources.
Conservation groups map protected boundaries
Post-Conflict Restitution
Support returning populations in re-establishing claims to land they were displaced from.
Witnesses verify pre-displacement occupancy
Participatory Programs
Organizations run structured land documentation programs with trained community mappers.
NGOs coordinate systematic parcel enumeration
Country-Specific Land Governance
Each country has unique land tenure systems and dispute resolution frameworks. LegitimateLand adapts to local legal contexts.
Ghana
Kenya
Rwanda
Ethiopia
Tanzania
Uganda
Transparency & Trust
Built on principles of openness, privacy, and integrity to create a trustworthy land documentation system.
Public by Default
All claim records are publicly visible — except personally identifiable information like names and contact details.
PII Protection
Personal data is stored separately and only visible to the claimant and authorized parties in disputes.
Evidence Integrity
Every uploaded file is hashed at creation time. Hashes are stored alongside evidence records for verification.
Community Verification
Attestations from neighbors and community leaders add social proof layers to individual claims.
Standards Aligned
Built with STDM/LADM interoperability in mind for eventual integration with formal land administration systems.
Not a Legal Registry
LegitimateLand is a documentation platform. Claims represent user assertions, not government-verified legal titles.
Ready to Document Your Land Claim?
Join thousands of individuals and communities using LegitimateLand to create transparent, verifiable land claim records.