The aim is to reduce and to avoid unnecessary or overlapping data collection. The aim is also to avoid uneconomical data handling methods and erroneous decision making caused by incomplete preparation and lack of knowledge. Altogether, the aim is to increase the economical competitiveness and cultural enrichment by wider exploitation of existing information. Objectives must be set for each component of the infrastructure. These objectives are partly dependant of each other.
Geographic information brings different disciplines together.
The importance of the commensurability of data produced and used by different business sectors will increase in uniting and guiding the actions as a principle, when the regulation based control decreases and decision making becomes decentralised. The geographic information infrastructure is a set of basic services, which is made of organisations, geographic data resources, information systems, information networks, regulation and skills.