Creating metadata for your geospatial data takes time, but doing it at the beginning of a project will save you more time down the road. The initial expense of documenting your data far outweighs the potential costs of duplicated or redundant data generation.

Avoiding metadata will cost you!

Costs of not creating metadata

• Loss of information with staff changes
• Data redundancy
• Data conflicts
• Liability
• Misapplications
• Decisions based on poorly documented data