Data Quality

It is essential that users have an appreciation of the quality of data contained within QuickMap when considering various uses. There are several quality aspects, which users need to know to properly assess whether data is suitable for their application. The aspects are: lineage, standards, positional accuracy, attribute accuracy, completeness, timeliness and logical consistency. This section provides information on these quality aspects as related to QuickMap.

Lineage relates to an appreciation of data sources and how data has been derived from those sources to populate a database.