topic UK Government Definition of Geospatial Data Types in State & Local Government Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/state-local-government-questions/uk-government-definition-of-geospatial-data-types/m-p/674427#M4376 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The UK Government put out a call for feedback on their first National Geospatial Strategy document. You can find this attached. In this document there are various questions they are looking for feedback on.&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>This is the first question refers to definitions.</P><P></P><P><STRONG>The definitions of Geospatial Data:</STRONG></P><P></P><P>1. <STRONG>Geospatial data</STRONG>: Information where place&nbsp;is a key feature of its source and/or&nbsp;purpose for which it is used.</P><P></P><P>2. <STRONG>Positional data</STRONG>: Groups of individual&nbsp;datasets that usually have location&nbsp;as a secondary purpose, and which&nbsp;describes activity or physical assets&nbsp;grounded in a particular place.</P><P><BR />3. <STRONG>Geospatial identifiers</STRONG>: Data that provides&nbsp;the means of anchoring positional data&nbsp;to core geospatial data.</P><P></P><P>4. <STRONG>Geospatial services</STRONG>: Higher-level insights&nbsp;and products, often involving layers of&nbsp;various types of spatial information.</P><P></P><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive_macro_quote jive-quote jive_text_macro"><STRONG>Q1 Is our view [the Geospatial Commission] of the geospatial data types&nbsp;accurate, if not what should be included&nbsp;or excluded from this?</STRONG></BLOCKQUOTE><P></P><P>Any thoughts? Lets discuss below....</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 23 Aug 2018 08:10:47 GMT SimonKettle 2018-08-23T08:10:47Z UK Government Definition of Geospatial Data Types https://community.esri.com/t5/state-local-government-questions/uk-government-definition-of-geospatial-data-types/m-p/674427#M4376 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The UK Government put out a call for feedback on their first National Geospatial Strategy document. You can find this attached. In this document there are various questions they are looking for feedback on.&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>This is the first question refers to definitions.</P><P></P><P><STRONG>The definitions of Geospatial Data:</STRONG></P><P></P><P>1. <STRONG>Geospatial data</STRONG>: Information where place&nbsp;is a key feature of its source and/or&nbsp;purpose for which it is used.</P><P></P><P>2. <STRONG>Positional data</STRONG>: Groups of individual&nbsp;datasets that usually have location&nbsp;as a secondary purpose, and which&nbsp;describes activity or physical assets&nbsp;grounded in a particular place.</P><P><BR />3. <STRONG>Geospatial identifiers</STRONG>: Data that provides&nbsp;the means of anchoring positional data&nbsp;to core geospatial data.</P><P></P><P>4. <STRONG>Geospatial services</STRONG>: Higher-level insights&nbsp;and products, often involving layers of&nbsp;various types of spatial information.</P><P></P><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive_macro_quote jive-quote jive_text_macro"><STRONG>Q1 Is our view [the Geospatial Commission] of the geospatial data types&nbsp;accurate, if not what should be included&nbsp;or excluded from this?</STRONG></BLOCKQUOTE><P></P><P>Any thoughts? Lets discuss below....</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 23 Aug 2018 08:10:47 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/state-local-government-questions/uk-government-definition-of-geospatial-data-types/m-p/674427#M4376 SimonKettle 2018-08-23T08:10:47Z