Often my students ask about the difference(s) between spatial and geospatial. These two words appear very frequently in remote sensing and GIS literature. The word spatial originated from Latin ‘spatium’, which means space. Spatial means ‘pertaining to space’ or ‘having to do with space, relating to space and the position, size, shape, etc.’ (Oxford Dictionary), which refers to features or phenomena distributed in three-dimensional space (any space, not only the Earth’s surface) and, thus, having physical, measurable dimensions. In GIS, ‘spatial’ is also referred to as ‘based on location on map’. Geographic(al) means ‘pertaining to geography (the study of the