Confused about representations of place topic

I could be incorrect, but I think geospatial is when it's the (physical) statistical representation of a place/thing (e.g postcodes or city/town). Whereas, geolocational is a bit more complicated, in the fact that it encompasses the location of something, specifically taken from a technological device, using GPS (e.g phone). Hope that helps

I could be incorrect, but I think geospatial is when it's the (physical) statistical representation of a place/thing (e.g postcodes or city/town). Whereas, geolocational is a bit more complicated, in the fact that it encompasses the location of something, specifically taken from a technological device, using GPS (e.g phone). Hope that helps

Geolocated data refers to data that is collected and has a physical location attached to the medadata in the real world - such as an instagram picture with a tagged location, an exercise run recorded using strata etc. Geospatial data is more broad and refers to any data collected, transmitted, analysed etc that uses or combines data about physical features of the world to make new interpretations and constructions about the world from the perspective of the researcher. Someone may use a GPS tracker geolocate various sites across the transect of a sand dune, where the geospatial data is used to create assumptions about the zonation and distribution of species using the geolocated data for example.

that makes much more sense - thank you! Would IMD be considered geospatial data?