Sharing Spatial

Information
 What is Spatial Information

• The information covered by the Regulations is

spatial data. Spatial data is any data with a direct
or indirect reference to a specific location or
geographical area. Spatial data is often referred to
as geospatial data or geographic information.
 Examples of Spatial information

• Spatial coordinates for land boundaries.

• Area or size of lands.
• Road and street names.
• Names of waterways.
• Codes for local Government.
 Spatial Coordinates of Land Boundaries
• Boundaries can be classified at many levels: they may be international (between
countries), national (between states of a country), regional (between regions of a
state), local (between localities of a region or local government area) or – as in
the context of this paper – individual boundaries separating parcels of
subdivided land.
• Boundaries between countries and states are more commonly referred to as
borders, and may be either natural (eg. seas, rivers, lakes) or artificial (eg
defined by geographic lines of latitude and longitude). Borders serve political,
legal and economic purposes in separation of the jurisdictions of abutting areas.
 Spatial Coordinates of Land Boundaries
• Other kinds of boundaries include maritime boundaries, which define the
exclusive rights of a country or state over the resources of oceans
adjoining the land of that country or state.
• For Example, In Australia, "a 3 nautical mile limit of coastal waters; a 12
nautical mile limit of the territorial sea, 24 nautical mile Contiguous Zone
and a 200 nautical mile limit of the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone"
(Geoscience Australia, 2011).
 Area or Size of Land

Example
Road and Street Names
 Names of Waterways
• United States • Chesapeake Bay.
• Mississippi River System. • Columbia River.
• Missouri River. • Delaware River.
• Ohio River.
• St. Lawrence Seaway.
• Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.
 Codes for Local Government
• For Example: Local Government Code of 1991 (Republic Act No. 7160)
This Code establishes the system and defines powers of provincial, city,
municipal and barangay governments in the Philippines. It provides for a
more responsive local government structure instituted through a system of
decentralization whereby Local Government Units are delegated more
powers, authority, responsibilities and resources.
 Conclusion
• Spatial Information is a data that can be use to determine the land boundaries,
area or size, road and street names, name of waterways, and local government
code. It is being regulated so that their will be leaked information for personal
purposes.
• The most common general sources for spatial data are: hard copy maps; aerial
photographs; remotely-sensed imagery; point data, samples from surveys; and
existing digital data files. Existing hard copy maps, e.g. sometimes referred to
as analogue maps, provide the most popular source for any GIS project