Editorial standards
Standards for public guides and report explanations
Read the standards Spatia applies to public guides and report explanations: evidence first, visible limitations, primary sources, and no invented certainty.
Evidence before interpretation
Public explanations must distinguish a source fact from Spatia's interpretation of why it may matter. Report prose is constrained to the structured findings it cites. Public guides link to the authorities responsible for the underlying map, program, or decision whenever an appropriate primary source is available.
Limitations where decisions are made
A caveat placed after the conclusion is easy to miss. Spatia puts the dominant misreading and the limits of a check beside the actionable answer, and identifies the professional or public authority that can make a determination the screen cannot.
Missing data is not a negative result
No coverage, an undetermined answer, and a confirmed absence are different outcomes. Public copy must preserve that distinction. A catalog gap is described as a gap in what Spatia publishes or evaluated, never as proof that a condition does not exist.
Scalable pages need specific value
Changing only a place name does not create a useful reference page. Location pages remain outside search indexing until their claims are materially specific, source-backed, and reviewed. Public address reports require a separate owner request before they may be offered to search and AI systems, in addition to Spatia's substantive quality checks.