Archive for 'Location Council'
Location data is in demand! »
20 Mar 2012: Location data was identified as a key theme in responses to the Government Consultation on a Public Data Corporation. Location data was described as particularly useful and particularly important in contributing to economic and social benefits. The government response to the Consultation was published on Monday 19 March and can be read here. Overall, location [...]
UK Location Annual Report 2010/11 – published today »
27 Jun 2011: The UK Location Council is pleased to publish its second annual report ‘Harnessing the power of location information’. This report covers the activities from January 2010 to April 2011. The first section describes the rapidly shifting context of government policy, economic reality and technological development. The second shows how the UK Location Programme has addressed these changes [...]
9th – UK Location Council – Meeting Summary »
6 Apr 2011: Summary of the recent UK Location Council meeting of 11th March 2011. UKLC Meeting #9: 11 March 2011: Meeting Summary As an update to the Meeting Summary. On Friday 1st April the Department for Communities and Local Government announced that Sir Ian Magee has been appointed as the first chair of the Public Sector Mappings [...]
Location Council Meeting Summary »
12 Dec 2010: The summary of the recent UK Location Council meeting of 3rd December 2010 can be found at: UK Location Council Meeting 3 Dec 2010 Highlights
UK Location Council – Welcomes GeoPlace »
3 Dec 2010: The Location Council were unanimously agreed at their meeting today that the announcement of GeoPlace and the national address gazetteer by Eric Pickles MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government was a very welcome step forward that will support many applications across the public and private sectors and will be an important contribution [...]
Updated FAQ »
16 Sep 2010: As our FAQ is a living document, we will periodically publish an updated version. The latest version can be found here
UK Location FAQ Launched »
19 Jul 2010: We get asked a lot of questions about the UK Location programme and its work. In many cases these are in response to questions at events and seminars or simply in response to questions that come into the programme mailbox. In order to make these answers more readily available, we have compiled the list of [...]
Location Council Meeting Summary »
1 Apr 2010: Summary notes from the recent Location Council meeting can be found at UKLC Meeting 19 Mar 2010 Highlights
Chair of Location User Group announced »
17 Feb 2010: The UK Location Council today announces Mick Cory as the Chair of the Location User Group. Mick brings a lot of relevant experience in this field as well as strong personal commitment. He is currently a Director in the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure, Northern Ireland. Prior to that he was Chief Executive of [...]
UK Location Council in the news »
12 Mar 2010: Following the recent launch of the UK Location Council annual report for 2008-9, we had a number of publications pick up on the news and who ran their own item on it. We include links to those stories below. Public Service.co.uk – http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=11920 The Gov Monitor – http://thegovmonitor.com/world_news/britain/uk-location-council-highlights-importance-of-location-information-to-front-line-public-services-21885.html IT Analysis – http://www.it-analysis.com/technology/data_mgmt/news_release.php?rel=15420 Vector1 Media – [...]