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Geospatial Commission is working with Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Government, to establish the new Scottish Geospatial Network Integrator.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Unique Property and Street Reference Numbers to become the standard way of referencing and sharing address information about properties and streets across government, helping to transform public services and boost our econom…
This Linked Identifiers best practice guide shares how to apply identifiers that makes it easier for users to join geospatial or any data together.
Read the minutes of the Board of Commissioners meeting on 25 January 2021.
Report from the Geospatial Commission exploring the use of geospatial data in the property sector.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
The Geospatial Commission has published a new guide on linked identifiers.
The Geospatial Commission will invest £5 million to help unlock the value of geospatial data held by its six expert Partner Bodies.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
Read the minutes of the Board of Commissioners meeting on 23 March 2021.
Read the minutes of the Board of Commissioners meeting on 20 August 2019.
This guide provides advice on extracting location data from archive materials such as paper maps, reports and other old data files/formats converted to electronic images or PDFs.
The government has published a strategy setting out how the UK will unlock the power of location data.
Read the minutes of the Board of Commissioners meeting on 27 September 2022
The new Geospatial Commission project will explore what electric vehicle chargepoint infrastructure data is needed by local authorities.
New report sets out how location data can support local authorities to make good decisions about where EV chargepoints should be installed.
Read the minutes of the Board of Commissioners meeting on 22 May 2020
A new report shows how the matching of geospatial data with emerging technologies is helping the UK economy to grow.
Read the minutes of the Board of Commissioners meeting on 12 December 2019.
Read the minutes of the Board of Commissioners meeting on 23 November 2021.
Read the minutes of the Board of Commissioners meeting on 29 March 2022.
Geospatial Commission publishes new guidance on how to assess the economic, social and environmental value of investments in location data by the public sector.
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