Rural areas difficult to access and generation of rural geographic information, Chicamole, Hidalgo (Mexico)

Abstract

The problem regarding the inaccurate generation of rural cartographic information collected by Geographic Information Systems (GIS) according to public institutions in Mexico must be corrected. The obtaining of data provided by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) revealed some inconsistencies in the downloading of information from the electronic portal of that Institution, which can be fully corrected. The information is not accurate according to the level of detail in terms of scale, something that directly affects the possible solutions to the territorial problems existing in rural communities in Mexico, due to the fact that several researchers and scholars of the subject use information from the aforementioned electronic portal, because of its importance at national level as a pioneer institution in terms of generating geographic data throughout the Mexican Republic. The solution to the previous problem is the generation of effective and accurate empirical and academic work. An example of the correction of errors observed throughout this article according to INEGI data, is the obtaining of geographic information of the town Chicamole, since being an area of difficult access due to various geomorphological issues is understandable the error that occurs. However it is possible to correct the current data to generate improvements in the electronic portal of that institution and provide quality geographic information.