How much does your organization actually trust the data its field crews collect? Paper forms get wet, handwriting gets misread, spreadsheets get saved over, and by the time field data reaches the office, it has already passed through three or four hands where errors can enter. For councils, utilities and infrastructure contractors that have run on these processes for years, the problems are real but so is the hesitation to change. The good news is that fixing it does not require starting from scratch.
Most utility data quality problems do not start in the office. They start the moment a field crew opens a blank form, types “PVC pipe” into a freetext field and moves on to the next asset. By the time that dataset reaches a GIS technician, it contains a dozen variations of the same value, attribute […]