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UK Location Strategy
The UK Location Strategy was launched in 2008. It aims to maximise exploitation and benefit to the public, the government and to UK Industry from geographic information and to provide a framework to assist European, national, regional and local initiatives. The Strategy will create an infrastructure for location information to assist policy, service delivery and operational decision making.
The strategy was introduced following the recognition that:
- too few government-owned datasets which incorporate location information can be easily assembled and analysed with reliability;
- there is too much duplication;
- too little re-use;
- and too few linkages across the datasets required to support policy development and implementation.
The UK Location strategy includes implementation of the EU INSPIRE Directive.