The term Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is often used to refer to the integration of technologies, norms and institutional arrangements that facilitate the availability and the sharing of spatial data, either at the global, regional, national, state or municipal levels.

According to the Constitution of the Mexican United States, the State must have a National System of Statistical and Geographic Information, whose data will be considered official and where the responsibility for regulating and coordinating such a system will be in charge of an organization with technical autonomy and management, legal personality and own assets [INEGI].

In this regard, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) has developed this work, with the recognition and application of lessons learned in the international field to raise awareness of the manner in which the National System of Statistical and Geographic Information (SNIEG) operates as an IDE, integrating four basic components:

1. Organizational framework
2. Regulatory framework
3. Thematic framework
4. Technological framework

The SNIEG as the IDE of Mexico, coordinated by the INEGI, as well with the consensus and joint efforts of the State Units, will allow to build collaborative networks of knowledge and development in response to the need, in all levels, to access, integrate and use the spatial data from diverse sources, increasing thus the capacity to make collective right decisions in order to contribute to national development, and on a broader level, the regional and global development.