- spatial data means geo-spatial data or information which could exactly indicate the geographic location of a natural or constructed feature on earth such as a road, river, building, and allotment of land or a boundary of land.  The proposal made by Hon. Janaka Bandara Thennakoon, Minister of Lands and Land Development, to implement the above programme through a separate unit to be established in the Survey Department under the directives of the Ministry of Lands and Land Development, and for the appointment of a Monitoring Committee consisting of representatives of the relevant Ministries and Departments, to monitor this programme, was approved by the Cabinet.