The origination, development and trend of digital terrain elevation data, digital feature analysis data, vector map and digital geographic Information exchange standards are described in this paper. Data structure, error range and other factors of the databases are presented briefly. 说明了数字地形高度数据、数字地形分析数据、矢量地图和数字地理信息数据交互标准的起源、发展过程及趋势,叙述了其数据组成结构、误差范围标准等基本要素。