ABSTRACT
The communication or portrayal of spatial data quality has often been cited by researchers as being important in enabling users to better understand the inherent strengths and weaknesses of their data (Hunter and Goodchild, 1996; Leitner and Buttenfield, 1996). In addition data producers and users are becoming increasingly concerned about liability issues (Epstein et al., 1998) and so the establishment of data quality communication guidelines and techniques have the potential to help facilitate the reduction of uncertainty by minimising doubt in the identification of spatial feature locations, forms and characteristics (Veregin, 1989).
