It is, however, of fundamental importance to assure the 
quality in a relationship to the following principle 
properties: 
■ technical standards and metric tolerances; 
■ legibility, possibility of being updated, reliability; 
■ ample intrinsic information content; 
■ maintenance of the above characteristics. 
In order to apply the ISO 9001 the fundamental aspects 
connected to the production cycle have been analyzed 
(figure 3). 
3.1. Company organization 
In general, the first thing to do in a company to assure 
that the path towards total quality is well understood, 
carried out and sustained at all levels id that of defining 
the organization chart of the company structure and the 
responsibilities of each component of the system. In 
this environment it is necessary to establish the figure 
of the quality coordinator who will represent and 
translate at the various company levels and in all 
departments the will of the management to apply this 
policy. 
The legislation states, furthermore, that within the 
productive unit the producer should: 
□ Company organization; 
□ Final Design (flight, topographic network, 
information structuring of data, etc.); 
□ In coming products; 
□ Production process; 
□ Finished product. 
The most important parts of each phase have been 
identified defining the essential requisites for a 
production in a regime of quality. 
■ guarantee the free circulation of procedures that 
have been documented, reviewed and approved 
by the Administrative Technical Management; 
■ archive the documents of the registration of quality 
that are necessary in order to demonstrate the 
conformity of the product to the specific requests of 
the client; 
■ carry out inspections in the company to show 
eventual deficiencies or bad functioning of the 
whole and complex quality system; 
■ promote professional training courses in order to 
have efficient staff ready to resolve any problems 
connected to the actuation of total quality. 
Figure 3 - Plan for the production of maps using aerial photographs (Galetto R., Spalla A., 1994) 
3.2. Design 
The “design” for the geo-topo-cartographic sector 
generally requires technical specifics based on the