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6. QUALITY CONTROL AND QUALITY ASSURANCE
The quality of geospatial data products has recently gained
escalating interest from both the data manufacturers and the
users. From the data manufacturers' point of view, they need to
ensure that the data they produce and deliver meet the
specifications. On the other hand, the data users need to
determine whether the data they receive meet the pre-agreed
specific requirements for their applications.
At Intermap, this has not been of recent interest — quality has
been built into the manufacturing process to produce quality
data consistently and predictably from the beginning. A series
of quality control and quality assurance (QC/QA) activities are
conducted within the whole manufacturing life cycle. The
quality management system is established tactically to integrate
various QC/QA tasks to facilitate the production process while
keeping the productivity. Li et al (2004) describes in detail
Intermap's quality management system for its STAR process.
More importantly Intermap reviews its quality systems
regularly with the focus on continual improvement. A public
display of this commitment was the recent formation of
Customer Care Division, headed by a Vice President. Intermap
is an ISO 9001:2000 registered company and is audited on a
regular basis by Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.
7. NEXTMAP® — INTERMAP'S AMBITIOUS EFFORT
Intermap identified several evolving commercial markets with a
common interest in acquiring wide-area terrain data for the
same geographic areas. These include commercial satellite
vendors, as well as air and auto navigation businesses. Intermap
clearly recognized the needs to develop a new innovative
business model to cater to the market demands.
The new business model is entitled NEXTMap — nation-wide
mapping using STAR based mapping technologies. The
resultant data products are available to users off-the-shelf
through the Company's online iStore. This new approach
