Database Ready Data Anoop Idicula Head of Spatial Data Engineering MAPS geosystems, UAE Email: katherine.thiemicke@mapsuae.com Digital mapping is basically the technology of collecting geographic or spatial data in a digital form for the purpose of displaying this data graphically on a computer screen or as hard copy. Traditionally a variety of CAD based tools are used to permit the production of maps at differ-ent scales and symbolization tailored for different application. These digi-tal maps though are generally structured for simple visualization and in-formation finding through analysis by a human interpretation. Some com-puter analysis can be performed on the data, but each application must apply its own often disparate business rules. A geodatabase is a superset of digital mapping were the data is struc-tured within a database and the geometry, attributes, topology and the business rules of the data are combined into a schema. If well struc-tured, such a geodatabase can be used to provide in an automated manner the optimized data for a number of different applications as well as multiple graphic renderings. This enables extensive use of the data while reducing the complexity of the applications and simplifying the critical maintainability of the data. The present presentation examines the difference between the corre-sponding data sets and reviews the advantages of how such geodata-bases are captured, utilized and maintained.