Would You Drink It?

CCE 114 · Day 16 — Metadata
Eight questions in two parts: why an undocumented dataset is a risk, and how to read a record well enough to decide whether the data are fit for your use.

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Before you build anything on a download:
Six questions — what, where, when, why, how, who
The coordinate system is in the .prj, not the .xml
Unzip the whole thing — opening only the .shp throws the metadata away
Almost nothing goes wrong because the data were wrong. It goes wrong because they were right data, wrong job.

On a laptop: press A–D to answer, Enter for the next question.