Question

Answer the following questions in about 125 words:
(i) What is difference between spatial and non-spatial data? Explain with
examples.

Answer 1

Answer:

Spatial data sets are primarily defined as those which are directly or indirectly referenced to a location on the surface of the earth. When a dataset cannot be related to a location on the surface of the earth is referred as non spatial data. ... The non spatial data are numbers, characters or logical type

Answer 2

Difference between spatial and non-spatial data is as follows:

• The type of data that can be stored as as coordinates and that can be mapped, is called spatial data. Road map is example of it. It refers to the regulations covers the information.
• The independent information of all geometric consideration is referred by non-spatial data. The example of non-spatial are age, height and mass.