Liability for Spatial Data Quality

Liability for Spatial Data Quality

Introduction:

With the advances in information and technology, the world is changing altogether, and now various services and benefits are readily available, which were even not thinkable a few years back. However, as with every other thing, there are some issues and concern as well that have come to screen due to advances in technology. Today, information on each and every topic is available on the internet, but the same availability has also given rise to data theft, security issues and breach of information. Same is the case with spatial data quality.

Spatial data is different from other data and information available and thus raises more concern regarding theft or precision issues. The following paragraphs deal with the details of spatial data and concerns that result from their acquisition and distribution:

Discussion:

Spatial data are classified information, which a company or organization acquires in exchange of money, from another organization. As the data is sold to another organization, and not distributed for free, some level of precision has to be there. The absence of this accuracy might trigger some severe response on the part of buyer, and might even lead to legal suits.

A number of laws exist to provide protection against such issues of data breach, but these maws do not require perfection and have room for human errors too. According to law, the information chain should be held liable for damages that it was obliged to prevent, and not all the others.

Geographic information and the mapping systems are readily available online these days, hence complicating the legal matters and making the issues more complex. With the increasing number of internet users, anyone can provide information online, thus raising security concerns and also making digital mapping more complex and difficult to maintain.

A number of aspects of spatial ...