Mistakes
Today was a tuff day. My supervisor and I have discovered dozens of mistakes in my work, some of them were quite major. Features that were meant to be deleted weren’t modified properly beforehand and some features that should have been abandoned were deleted. My supervisor wasn’t very pleased with how I deleted and posted features from the system incorrectly without his approval and I was very annoyed with myself too. Fortunately, we could repair and fix some of the stuff that was not done properly and most of the features in the GIS were abandoned and not deleted. Although my supervisor and the others on my team didn’t express any anger, I felt pretty bad and was angry about it.
I have always understood that data accuracy and quality are essential when working on a GIS system that processes and delivers information to various people using it for various purposes. Those two non-repairable major mistakes in the GIS system would be passed on to other applications that replicate the data, to modellers who use the data for analysis and then to other businesses and organisations would make use of the data in the field. A chain of delays and errors would appear in system after system, which may be all linked to the system from which I am working on. I don’t like mistakes and I most certainly hate failures. But that’s just life. Some people have to learn by mistake. I am certainly one of those people.