| ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS | EXPLANATION |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| ATOM | The Atom Syndication Format |
| CAD ili CADD | Computer-aided design and drafting |
| CC | Creative Commons |
| Cat SWG | Catalog Revision Standards Working Group |
| CEN | Comité Européen de Normalisation European Committee for Standardization Europäisches Komitee für Normung |
| CityGML | City Geography Markup Language |
| CROPOS | Croatian Positioning System |
| CROTIS | Croatian Topographic Information System |
| CRS | Coordinate Reference System |
| CS | Catalogue Service |
| CSW | Catalog Service for the Web |
| DGU | Državna geodetska uprava |
| DIGEST | DIgital Geographic Information Exchange STandard |
| DQ | Data Quality |
| DT DS | Drafting Team Data Specifications (INSPIRE) |
| DWG | Domain Working Group |
| E,N | E - Easting - eastern coordinate, N - Northing - northern coordinate Coordinates in the projection plane. |
| EDEN | l'Equipe D'Experts en Normalisation |
| EEA | European Environment Agency |
| eGIF | eGovernment Interoperability Framework |
| EGM | Euro Global Map |
| EGN | EuroGeoNames |
| EIA | Environmental Impact Assessment |
| EIF | European Interoperability Framework |
| EIR | Environmental Information Regulations |
| EIS | European Interoperability Strategy |
| ELF | European Location Framework |
| ELRA | European Land Registry Association |
| EO | Earth Observation |
| EOSDIS | Earth Observing System Data and Information System |
| EPSG | European Petroleum Survey Group |
| ESDI | European Spatial Data Infrastructure |
| ESDIN | European Spatial Data Infrastructure Network |
| ESO | European Standardization Organization |
| ESS | Earth Systems Science |
| ETRS89 | European Terrestrial Reference System 1989 |
| EU | European Union |
| EULIS | European Land Information Service |
| EUNIS | European Nature Information System |
| EUREF | European Reference Frame |
| EUROGI | European Umbrella Organization for Geographic Information |
| EuroSDR | European Spatial Data Research |
| EUROSTAT | Statistical Office of the European Communities |
| EUSIS | European Soil Information System |
| EUVN | European Vertical Reference Network |
| EVRS | European Vertical Reference System |
| EZ | Europska zajednica |
| FGDC | Federal Geographic Data Committee |
| FIG | International Federation of Surveyors |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| GCM | Generic Conceptual Model (INSPIRE) |
| GEMET | GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus |
| GeoAPI | GeoAPI Interface Standard |
| GEOSS | Global Earth Observation System of Systems |
| GeoTIFF | Geo Tagged Image File Format |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format |
| GIS | Geographic Information System |
| GISCO | Geographic Information System of the European Commission |
| GMD | Geoscientific Model Development |
| GMES | Global Monitoring for Environment and Security |
| GML | Geography Markup Language |
| GNSS | Global Navigation Satellite System |
| GO | Geospatial Objects |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GRS80 | Geodetic Reference System 1980 |
| GSDI | Global Spatial Data Infrastructure |
| GTOS | Global Terrestrial Observing System |
| h | Geodetic (ellipsoidal) height - height from the surface of the reference ellipsoid to the observation poin along the normal to the ellipsoid. |
| H | Height with respect to the gravitational force acceleration field (eg from the surface of the geoid to the observation point along the real center of gravity) |
| HDF | Hierarchical Data Format |
| HDKS | Hrvatski državni koordinatni sustav |
| HDKS1901_GK | Hrvatski državni koordinatni sustav 1901, Gauss-Krügerove projekcije |
| HKOIG | Hrvatska komora ovlaštenih inženjera geodezije |
| HRN | Hrvatska norma |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
| HTRS96/TM | Hrvatski terestički referentni sustav 1996 poprečne Mercatorove projekcije |
| HTTP | HyperText Transfer Protocol |
| HTTPS | HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure |
| HVRS71 | Hrvatski visinski referentni sustav 1971 |
| HZN | Hrvatski zavod za norme |
| IAG | International Association of Geodesy |
| ICA | International Cartographic Association |
| ICS | International Classification Code |
| ICT | Information and Communications Technology |
| ID | IDentifier |
| IKT | Informacijsko-komunikacijska tehnologija |
| INSPIRE | Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the Europe |
| IPP | Infrastruktura prostornih podataka |
| IR | Implementing Rules |
| ISA | Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations |
| ISIC | International Standard Industrial Classification |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| ISO/IEC | ISO/International Electrotechnical Commission |
| ISO TC 211 | ISO Technical Committee 211 |
| ISO/TS | ISO Technical Specification |
| ITRS | International Terrestrial Reference System |
| JRC | Joint Research Centre |
| KML | Keyhole Markup Language |
| LAEA | Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area Projection |
| LAU | Local Administrative Units |
| LMO | Legally Mandated Organization |
| MD | Metadata |
| MEF | Metadata Exchange Format |
| N | multiple value |
| NIPP | Nacionalna infrastruktura prostornih podataka |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NMA | National Mapping Agency |
| NMCA | National Mapping and Cadastral Agency |
| NN | Narodne novine |
| NRE | Natural Resources and Environment |
| NSDI | National Spatial Data Infrastructure |
| NUTS | Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (EUROSTAT) |
| O | obvezan |
| OASIS | Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards |
| OCL | Object Constraint Language |
| OGC | Open Geospatial Consortium |
| OLS | OGC Location Services |
| OMA | Open Mobile Alliance |
| ORM | Object Relational Mapping |
| OWL | Web Ontology Language |
| OWS | OGC Web Services |
| O&M | Observations and Measurements |
| PCC | Permanent Committee on Cadastre in the European Union |
| PKI | Public Key Infrastructure |
| PSI | Public Sector Information |
| RDM | Reference Data and Metadata |
| RDF | Resource Description Framework |
| SDI | Spatial Data Infrastructure |
| SDTS | Spatial Data Transfer Standard |
| SEIS | Shared Environmental Information System |
| SensorML | Sensor Markup Language |
| SFTP | SSH File Transfer Protocol |
| SGA | State Geodetic Administration |
| SOA | Services Oriented Architecture |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SOS | Sensor Observation Service |
| SQL | Structured Query Language |
| STANAG | NATO STANdardization AGreement |
| SWG | Standards Working Group |
| TC | Technical Committee |
| TC P&P | Technical Committee Policies and Procedures |
| TIFF | Tagged Image File Format |
| TML | Transducer Markup Language |
| TR | Technical Report |
| TS | Technical Specification |
| U | Uvjetan |
| UML | Unified Modeling Language |
| UN | United Nations |
| UNEP | United Nations Environment Programme |
| UNGEGN | United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names |
| UN GGIM | UN Global Geospatial Information Management |
| UNGIWG | United Nations Geographical Information Working Group |
| UNSDI | United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure |
| URI | Unique Resource Identifier |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| URN | Uniform Resource Name |
| UTF | Unicode Transformation Format |
| UTM | Universal Transverse Mercator |
| UUID | Universal Unique Identifier |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
| WaterML | Water Markup Language |
| WCS | Web Coverage Service |
| WCTS | Web Coordinate Transformation Service |
| WFS | Web Feature Service |
| WG | Working group |
| WMS | Web Map Service |
| WMS SWG | Web Map Service Standards Working Group |
| WMTS | Web Map Tile Service |
| WPS | Web Processing Service |
| WS | Web Services |
| WSDL | Web Service Definition Language |
| WTS | Web Terrain Service |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language |
| XPath | XML Path Language |
| XSD | XML Schema Definition |
| X, Y | Coordinates in the projection plane |
| X, Y, Z | Coordinates of the three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system |
| ZIPP | Zagrebačka infrastruktura prostornih podataka |
| WGS84 | World Geodetic System 1984 |
| φ | Geodetic (ellipsoidal) latitude |
| λ | Geodetic (ellipsoidal) longitude |