scope:

Establishes general principles for describing the quality of geographic information and provides a schema for describing data quality. Specifies information appropriate for the judging of quality of geographic information. This includes details of the derivation and usage of particular sets of geographic information and the results of measures of quality either against a pre-established scale or relative to similar information. Is applicable to - for suppliers of datasets who wish to describe the overall quality of a product; - for specific quality information regarding a dataset supplied to a user; - for users to describe their requirements. It is suitable for describing the quality of geographic data at any level, from the complete dataset down to individual items of data.