Article 19. Basic and specialized spatial data and metadata

Spatial data shall be divided into basic and specialized spatial data.

Basic spatial data shall be publicly available spatial data that constitute a unified digital coordinate-spatial basis for spatial data processing.

Basic spatial data shall include information about the following objects:

stations of geodetic, leveling, and gravimetric networks;

the State border of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the boundaries of administrative-territorial units;

hydrographic objects and hydraulic structures;

settlements and their street and road network;

industrial, agricultural, and socio-cultural facilities;

buildings and structures;

roads;

railroads;

main pipelines;

engineering communications;

airports, river ports;

vegetation cover and soils;

boundaries of land plots;

protected natural areas and cultural heritage sites;

boundaries of settlements and zoning objects, as well as suburban areas;

protective zones and zones with special conditions of use of territories;

street registries and addresses of facilities within and outside of settlements;

names of geographical objects;

terrain;

orthophotomaps, aerial and space images, and the results of the Earth remote sensing work.

Basic spatial data must not contain information constituting state secrets and other secrets protected by law, as well as other information, access to which is restricted by law.

Specialized spatial data shall be thematic spatial data that are created on the basis of basic spatial data.

Requirements for basic and specialized spatial data, their composition and content, and their metadata shall be determined in accordance with the procedure for maintaining the National Spatial Data Infrastructure and other documents.

Metadata shall contain information on the composition, structure, quality, reliability, spatial coverage, functions, conditions of use of spatial data and spatial data services, access restrictions, producer, time of creation, frequency of updating spatial data, and may also contain other information.

Spatial data created on request of state bodies shall be state property and component part of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure.