A Local-State Government Spatial Data Sharing Partnership

A Local-State Spatial Data Sharing Partnership Model to Facilitate SDI Development
IDENTIFICATION
Position of Person Completing:
Department or Section:
Name of Local Government:
Glossary
State:
Contact Phone Number:
Email:
(Eg GIS Manager, IT Manager, Technical Officer, etc)
(In case of questions)
(For return of summary of results)
DCDB – Digital Cadastral Database. This is represented a digital map of the cadastral land parcels
and their associated attributes. It is a critical layer in many local government geographic
information systems.
GIS – Geographic Information System. A term used to describe the digital mapping and
information system used by many local governments. It may also be referred to as Spatial
Information System or Land Information System.
Metadata – Data describing the origin, quality, format and currency of data
Partnership – A formal or informal arrangement between two or more partners for the common
benefit of each. In this questionnaire a partnership refers to an arrangement for sharing spatial data
or resources.
Property Data – a range of core data that is used by both local and state governments for
managing their business activities. Property data includes address data, valuations, land parcel
descriptions and property numbers.
SDI – Spatial Data Infrastructure – refers to the combination of data, people, policies, access
networks and standards that facilitates the utilisation of spatial data.
Spatial Information – Spatial Information can be defined as any information that has a location in
space. A subset of spatial information that many people deal with daily is "geographical"
information which can be defined as information that can be related to a location on the earth's
surface.
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