Geospatial Quality Council

Project Scoping
	What is the purpose of the project?
	What will the results be used for?
	How will the results be viewed?
Input Data Requirements
	Coverage by date (temporal requirement)
	Coverage by area (areal extent requirement)
	Accuracy requirement
		Positional (e.g., line boundaries, points, areas)
		Attribute (e.g., location linked information)
	Completeness of data
	Potential/acceptable Lineage or Source (i.e., documentation)
	Processing software requirements (e.g., software, size of data sets, run time, relevant models and assumptions, format, projections)
Lineage or Source Information
	What was the source of the data?
	Did the producers have written data quality goals (or standards) and standard operating procedures?
	In what medium was it originally produced?
	How was the data checked by the producer?
	For what purpose was the data compiled?
	What is the reliability of the provider?