ICA-Proc Proceedings of the ICA ICA-Proc Proc. Int. Cartogr. Assoc. 2570-2092 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/ica-proc-1-72-2018 Utilizing User Generated Content in the Creation of Land Ownership Boundaries for the Crofters of Scotland Mackaness William https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6581-5989 1 2 Duchateau Rica 1 Cross Jamie 1 School of GeoSciences, The University of Edinburgh Scotland School of Social & Political Studies, The University of Edinburgh Scotland 16 05 2018 1 72 Copyright: © 2018 William Mackaness et al. 2018 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is available from https://ica-proc.copernicus.org/articles/1/72/2018/ica-proc-1-72-2018.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://ica-proc.copernicus.org/articles/1/72/2018/ica-proc-1-72-2018.pdf

Land registration is important in land tenure security and often resolves land-related issues. Volunteered geographic information is a cheap and quick alternative to formal and traditional approaches to land registration. This research investigates the extent to which this tool is meaningful for land registration, with the Scottish crofting com- munity as a case study. CroftCappture was developed to record points along boundaries and save geotagged photo- graphs and descriptions. The project raised interesting questions over usability, functionality and accuracy, as well issues of privacy, crofting practices, digital competency, and highlighted the fractal nature of the digital divide.