topic Re: Data Governance - What data quality problems do you encounter? in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Data Governance - What data quality problems do you encounter with ArcGIS Pro data?

Bud — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 19:50:35 GMT

I work for a municipality in Ontario. We are starting to develop a Data Governance Plan.

What types of data quality issues do you come across in your ArcGIS Pro data? For example:

Data structure - difficult to query
Data completeness - some records missing
Data accuracy - data entered incorrectly; not reliable
Out-of-date data - it was entered correctly at the time, but is now out of date
Categories of data are missing, such as we have the asset records, but not condition information or historical cost information

What else?

And what is the top problem you face? If there were one data problem you could solve, what would it be?

Re: Data Governance - What data quality problems do you encounter?

BillFox — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:31:36 GMT

head this off as much as possible:

the person collecting/entering the GIS data is required to be responsible for maintaining it

if they have to fix it they will care more about doing it correctly, hold them accountable so you don't need another "team" to QC everything and end up starting all over

example,

send a "team" of interns, light-duty out with GPS gear, iPads, etc. to get all our infrastructure created and then "hand it off" to the technician/analyst to connect the dots and maintain it after that

that tends to get you sanitary sewer man holes entered as storm drain man holes, fire hydrants as street lights, etc.