Free QGIS plugin · Philippine land titles
From technical description
to plotted parcel.
Turn the bearing-and-distance technical descriptions on Philippine TCTs and OCTs into accurate parcel geometry, right inside QGIS. Tie-point based, live-previewed — and it requires no GIS background at all.
QGIS 3.22+ · GPL-3.0 · v2.1
What it is
Land titles, without the surveyor's toolchain
Every Philippine land title carries its lot's shape as text — a tie point and a list of bearings and distances. Reading that into a map used to take survey software or a GIS specialist. Title Plotter PH does it inside QGIS: pick the tie point, type the lines, and the parcel appears.
Built for lawyers, brokers, assessors and owners as much as for GIS professionals — the workflow mirrors the title itself.
Parcels anchor to official reference monuments, the same way the original survey did — not to a guessed location.
TCT and OCT technical descriptions, BLLM tie points, PRS92 — the plugin speaks the local format natively.
The toolbox
Everything between the paper title and the map
Six pieces that carry a technical description from text to geometry — with checks along the way so a misread line never becomes a wrong parcel.
An online database of official Philippine tie points, searchable from inside the plugin. Every point you fetch is cached for offline field work.
Type the metes-and-bounds straight off the title — one bearing and distance per line, the way the technical description reads.
Watch the parcel take shape as you type and check the closing error before you commit anything to a layer.
Optionally let OCR read the technical description straight off a scanned title image instead of retyping it.
Plot in the Philippine reference system or WGS84 — the plugin handles the coordinate systems for you.
Found a tie point with wrong coordinates? Report the correct easting/northing to the developer from inside the plugin.
How it works
Four steps from paper to parcel
The workflow follows the title itself: anchor at the tie point, walk the boundary line by line, verify the loop closes, then plot.
- 01Pick your tie point
Search the built-in database for the BLLM or monument named on the title. Previously fetched points work offline.
- 02Enter the technical description
Copy the bearings and distances from the TCT or OCT — or point the OCR at a scan and let it read them for you.
- 03Preview and check closure
The parcel draws live as you go. A closing error that's off tells you a line was misread before anything is plotted.
- 04Plot to a layer
One click writes the parcel as real geometry in your QGIS project, ready to style, measure, or overlay.
A technical description, as the title prints it
Beginning at a point marked “1”,
being S 48°12′W, 1,231.50 m from BLLM No. 1;
thence N 82°30′E, 45.10 m to point 2;
thence S 12°45′E, 38.20 m to point 3;
thence S 47°15′W, 32.86 m to point 4;
… back to the point of beginning.
Those lines are all the plugin needs — each “thence” becomes one row of bearing and distance.
Get started
Install in a minute
Title Plotter PH installs like any QGIS plugin. OCR is optional — the core plotting workflow needs nothing beyond QGIS itself.
- 01Get the plugin
Install from the QGIS Plugin Repository (Plugins → Manage and Install Plugins → search “Title Plotter PH”), or download it from GitHub.
- 02Enable it
Tick Title Plotter PH in Plugins → Manage and Install Plugins, then find its icon on the QGIS toolbar.
- 03Plot your first title
Open the plugin, search your tie point, and enter the technical description — the preview does the rest.
Requirements
- QGIS 3.22+ — works up through QGIS 4.
- Internet for tie-point search and correction reports; fetched tie points are cached for offline use.
- Optional, for OCR: Tesseract plus pytesseract · Pillow · opencv-python.
Who made it
Built where the titles are
Isaac Enage built Title Plotter PH so that seeing a Philippine land title on a map wouldn’t require survey software or a GIS specialist. It’s free and open-source under GPL-3.0 — one of the QGIS plugins from byZenterra.org.