UK Location Strategy is published

A new strategy to tackle problems from traffic management to flooding, improved policy formulation and decision making by using better geographical information, was launched by Baroness Andrews today in a report Place Matters: The Location Strategy for the United Kingdom.

Full details, including a press release announcing the launch, on the Communities and Local Government website.

The Location Strategy sets out a Five-Point Action Plan for public services that will help them to:

• know what data we have and avoid duplicating it
  
• use common reference data so we know we are talking about same places
  
• share the data easily through common technology, standards and business relationships
  
• gain the appropriate skills to support its use
  
• drive strong governance to enable change which will be led by the Location Council which is being set up by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

I haven't had a chance to look at it yet but if you have then let me know what you think.