Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 143.188.101.65]
on January 07, 2009 06:17 AM
Traditionally spatial data is gathered by well trained experts who still occasionally make mistakes. Not an issue for geocaching, but a disaster if you run your boat onto an unmapped rock while at sea. Like Wikipedia, publically collected spatial data will need a range of masures to quantify and manage data quality provided by a more diverse provider base. This will need a range of tools spanning from the input end (data quality) to the output end (appropriate use).
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 143.188.101.65] on January 07, 2009 06:17 AM#