GSA faces recurrent issues with geospatial data handling, watchdog finds
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ByChristian Robles,
Technology Reporter, Nextgov/FCW
October 6, 2026 05:06 PM ET
The agency’s chief information officer agreed with all five recommendations made by the watchdog.
The General Services Administration is still not meeting the Geospatial Data Act of 2018’s requirement to maintain geospatial data, an Office of Inspector General report published Monday found. Previous 2024 and 2022 OIG audits also found that GSA was not fully compliant with the federal law.
GSA has two publicly available geospatial datasets — the Inventory of Owned and Leased Properties Dataset and the Federal Real Property Profile Dataset — that contain inaccurate or missing latitude and longitude coordinates, the OIG found.
The watchdog noted that about 78,624 — or 26% — of properties in the FRPP dataset with coordinates lacked distinct ones and “numerous properties” in that dataset contained erroneous coordinates. The finding echoes...
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