Ruumiobjekt käesoleva seaduse tähenduses on konkreetse asukoha või geograafilise alaga seotud reaalmaailma nähtuse abstraktne kujutis. Ruumiobjekti geomeetriline kuju on ruumiobjekti ruumikuju.
Geographic entities encoded using the vector data model are usually calles features, and this will be the convention adopted here. Features of the same geometric type are stored in a geographic database as a feature class.
Common geoprocessing operations include geographic feature overlay, feature selection and analysis, topology processing, raster processing, and data conversion.
