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The expanding human requirements and economic activities are placing overwhelming pressures on the resources and ecosystem, creating conflicts, risk situation and resulting in suboptimal use of both land and natural resources. Broad sustainable development goal aims to provide a just balance economic, ecological and social development on the basis of comprehensive planning and decision process. The implementation of sustainable development goals requires that all decisions are made with accurate, timely and reliable referenced data. Spatial data infrastructure (SDI) can leverage a better way to manage these data. SDI is often used to denote the relevant based collection of technologies, policies and institutional arrangement that facilitate availability and access to spatial data. SDI also provides a basis for Spatial data discovery, evaluation, data sharing and application for users and providers ( Nebert, 2004). This paper reviews the geospatial data handling environment and SDI implementation in the study area to expose current state of SDI handling/geospatial data sourcing and the weakness of implementation strategies thereby providing the needed strategy and approach that can fast track the development of SDI in the study area.