The 30-employee land projects division will be based at Stewart's corporate headquarters at 1980 Post Oak Blvd. The team will work with municipal and national governments to improve land registry, cadastral mapping or geographic information systems and property taxation systems. First on the agenda is to finish work on a GIS mapping project for Romania, Brad Deloach, a marketing executive with Stewart International tells GlobeSt.com.

Stewart also formed an alliance with the Organization of American States to design a "best practices" model for Latin American and the Caribbean to assist in municipal management of land records and improve real property revenues. Deloach says Antigua in the West Indies will be the case study.

One of the group's main charges is to finish development of new e-government technology, "landfolio," for land information management. The new tool will incorporate land maps, ownership information and property taxation into a fully integrated package.Tevfik Turel, director with Stewart International, will head up the division.