Sample Mapping Grade GPS Standards (.pdf)

The Arkansas State Land Information Board has developed GPS Standards in order to support the legislative initiatives of the Arkansas Spatial Data Infrastructure. The standards have been made a state rule in Arkansas and are intended to benefit Global Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) user communities in numerous ways. Their purpose is to:

1. Eliminate or reduce known and potential systematic errors;

2. Establish a common means of collecting GPS data in Arkansas;

3. Provide standards for supplying metadata about GPS receivers used to collect spatial data (features); and

4. Supply GPS users with common GPS terms and abbreviations.

Meeting each of these tasks will provide GPS features with known accuracies, and reliable metadata for future spatial data users.

The GPS Standards can be reviewed Here.