Error-sensitive GIS development: technology and research themes

The current lack of error-sensitive functionality found in commercial GIS is at odds with the research focus error-sensitive GIS development has enjoyed over recent years. In an attempt to address this undesirable situation, this paper reviews a number of key error-sensitive GIS research themes, based on experience gained during a three year research project into errorsensitive GIS development. The approach taken here contrasts with many other papers in the literature, since the issues raised are biased toward the error-sensitive GIS user’s rather than developer’s perspective. The paper concludes that from the user’s perspective it is possible to identify a number of simple reformulations of current research that would help bring about the desired increase in availability and use of error-sensitive functionality within commercial GIS technology and applications.