This International Standard establishes the principles for describing the quality of geographic data andspecifies components for reporting quality information. It also provides an approach to organizing informationabout data quality.This International Standard is applicable to data producers providing quality information to describe andassess how well a dataset meets its mapping of the universe of discourse as specified in the productspecification, formal or implied, and to data users attempting to determine whether or not specific geographicdata is of sufficient quality for their particular application. This International Standard should be considered byorganizations involved in data acquisition and purchase, in such a way that it makes it possible to fulfil theintentions of the product specification. It can additionally be used for defining application schemas anddescribing quality requirements.As well as being applicable to digital geographic data, the principles of this International Standard can beextended to identify, collect and report the quality information for a geographic dataset, its principles can beextended and used to identify, collect and report quality information for a dataset series or smaller groupingsof data that are a subset of a dataset.Although this International Standard is applicable to digital geographic data, its principles can be extended tomany other forms of geographic data such as maps, charts and textual documents.This International Standard does not attempt to define a minimum acceptable level of quality for geographicdata.