ABSTRACT
Track:  Database Design and Automation

Integrating Quality Assurance into the GIS Project Life Cycle Paper Text

Matthew J. McCain
 William C. Masters

GIS databases are an ever-evolving entity. From their humble beginnings as paper maps through the digital conversion process to the data maintenance phase, GIS data never really stop changing. The key to developing and implementing a successful GIS project is a well-designed quality assurance (QA) plan that is integrated with both the data conversion and maintenance phases of the GIS project. The fundamentals of quality assurance never change; completeness, validity, logical consistency, physical consistency, referential integrity, and positional accuracy are the cornerstones of the QA plan. This paper discusses the issues involved in the development and implementation of an integrated GIS quality assurance plan.

 

Matthew J. McCain
Dog Creek Design & Consulting, Inc.
P.O. Box 1205
Longmont, CO 80501
USA

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