Metadata
What is metadata?
It is a summary document providing content, quality, type, creation,
and spatial information about a dataset
(GIS database). By creating metadata and sharing it with others,
information about existing data becomes
Readily available to anyone seeking it. (ESRI, Oct 2002)
Why is metadata important to GIS?
Metadata makes spatial information more useful to all types of users by making it easier to document and
Locate datasets. Metadata benefits an organization in the following
ways:
- Provides an inventory of data assets
- Helps determine and maintain the value of data
- Helps you determine the reliability and currency of data
- Supports decision making
- Document legal issues
- Helps keep data accurate and helps verify accuracy to support
good decision making and cost savings.
- Helps determine budgets because it provides a clearer
understanding of when or if data needs to be updated
- Or repurchased.
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Base Data :
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Disaster management :
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Environmental management |
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Integrated development plans (IDP) |
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Local economic development (LED) |
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Spatial development frameworks
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Transportation :
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Waste management :
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Water Services Development Plan (WSDP) :
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