Definitions

• Spatial Data Infrastructure
  Pursuant with Art. 3 (2) of the Act on the Spatial Data Infrastructure, the Spatial Data Infrastructure is the spatial data sets described with metadata and related spatial data services, technical means, processes and procedures, which are used and made available by leading authorities, other administrative bodies and third parties that co-create the Spatial Data Infrastructure. https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20100760489
• Spatial data
  Pursuant with Art. 3 (1) of the Act on the Spatial Data Infrastructure, the Spatial Data means any data with a direct or indirect reference to a specific location or geographical area. https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20100760489
• Spatial data set
  Pursuant with Art. 3 (11) of the Act on the Spatial Data Infrastructure, the spatial set set means an identifiable collection of spatial data by reason of their common features. https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20100760489
• Metadata
  Pursuant with Art. 3 (16) of the Act on the Spatial Data Infrastructure, the metadata means information describing spatial data sets and spatial data services and making it possible to discover, inventory and use them. https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20100760489
• Spatial data services
  Pursuant with Art. 3 (10) of the Act on the Spatial Data Infrastructure, the spatial data services means the operations which may be performed, by invoking a computer application, on the spatial data contained in spatial data sets or on the related metadata. https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20100760489
• Interoperability of spatial data sets and Spatial data services
  Pursuant with Art. 3 (3) of the Act on the Spatial Data Infrastructure, an interoperability means the possibility for spatial data sets to be combined, and for services to interact, without repetitive manual intervention, in such a way that the result is coherent and the added value of the data sets and services is enhanced. https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20100760489
• Harmonisation of spatial data sets
  Pursuant with Art. 2 (16) of the Act on the Geodetic and Cartographic Law, harmonization means actions of a legal, technical, and organizational activities aimed at making spatial datasets coherent and adapting them to common sharing. https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU19890300163
• Lead authority
  Pursuant with Art. 2 (7) of the Act on the Spatial Data Infrastructure, Chief Inspector of Environmental Protection is the lead authority in the III.7 Environmental monitoring facilities spatial data theme. https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20100760489