Article 3. Basic concepts

The following basic concepts shall be applied in this Law:

spatial data is the data about spatial objects, including information about their location, shape, and other properties, presented in a certain form, and systems of spatiotemporal coordinates;

spatial data processing is the implementation of one or a set of actions to create, collect, systematize, store, change, update, visualize, use, provide, distribute, and transfer spatial data and metadata;

metadata is the data that allows describing the sets, services, and other characteristics of spatial data required to identify, search, inventory, and use them;

National Spatial Data Infrastructure Geoportal is a set of Internet tools and spatial data services that maintain metadata about geodata resources and provide access to them through the Internet information system;

spatial data user (hereinafter – the user) is an individual or a legal entity using spatial data;

spatial objects are natural and artificial objects, the location of which can be determined in the established system of spatiotemporal coordinates.