Vesna Poslončec-Petrić defended her doctoral thesis on 26 October, 2010 at the Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb titled Distribution of Spatial Data Used in Official Cartography of the Republic of Croatia. The dissertation was defended in front of the Committee whose members were Assoc. Prof. Dr. Renata Pernar (Faculty of Forestry, University of Zagreb), Prof. Dr. Stanislav Frangeš and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Željko Bačić (mentors, Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb).