10.6 Capture and interpretation

The organisation shall classify each captured geometry as one or more of:

directly supplied authoritative geometry;

traced or digitised from a plan or map;

surveyed or observed;

derived by spatial operation;

inferred from related evidence; or

indicative or representative.

Interpretation shall take account of the source’s purpose, date, scale, resolution, symbology, stated limitations and relationship to current physical features.

A source geometry shall not be altered to remove a conflict solely for visual neatness. Adjustments shall be recorded and the source representation preserved or recoverable.