1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Geospatial Data Act of 2017 . 2. Definitions In this Act— (1) the term Advisory Committee means the National Geospatial Advisory Committee described in section 4(a); (2) the term Committee means the Federal Geographic Data Committee established under section 3(a); (3) the term covered agency means an agency, as defined in section 551 of title 5, United States Code, that collects, produces, acquires, maintains, distributes, uses, or preserves geospatial data on paper or in electronic form to fulfill the mission of the agency, either directly or through a relationship with another organization, including a State, local government, Indian tribe, institution of higher education, business partner or contractor of the Federal Government, and the public; (4) the term GeoPlatform means the GeoPlatform described in section 8(a); (5) the term geospatial data — (A) means information that is tied to a location on the Earth, including by identifying the geographic location and characteristics of natural or constructed features and boundaries on the Earth, and that is generally represented by points, lines (for example a road), polygons (for example a forest), or other complex geographic features or phenomena (for example a forest fire, the spread of West Nile virus, or the infestation of pine-bark beetles); (B) may be derived from, among other things, remote sensing, mapping, and surveying technologies; (C) includes— (i) images and raster datasets, aerial photographs, and other forms of geospatial data or datasets in digitized or non-digitized form, specifically— (I) georeferenced data transcribed into a Geographic Information System or Land Information System format by manual or electronic means, and the maintenance of that data