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This International Standard establishes the concept of quality for geographic data components for describing data quality components and content structure of a register for data quality measures general procedures for evaluating the quality of geographic data principles for reporting data quality This International Standard also provides guidance on how to describe, evaluate and report data quality. This International Standard is applicable to data producers providing quality information to describe and assess how well a dataset conforms to its product specification and to data users attempting to determine whether or not specific geographic data is of sufficient quality for their particular application. This International Standard does not attempt to define a minimum acceptable level of quality for geographic data.