The Geospatial Commission is an expert committee within the UK government, established in 2018, that sets the UK's geospatial strategy and coordinates public sector geospatial activity. It focuses on unlocking economic, social, and environmental opportunities by improving the use of location data and boosting the UK's global geospatial expertise. The Commission works with partners like the British Geological Survey and Ordnance Survey and makes targeted investments in data projects to accelerate innovation in geospatial data applications.
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HM Land Registry worked with the Geospatial Commission on the report and is committed to unlocking and supporting reuse of its significant geospatial data in alignment with the UK Geospatial Strategy 2030.
The Geospatial Commission published a report on 1 August identifying opportunities where improved data and use of location services and applications can unlock innovation across the property ecosystem.
The Geospatial Commission initiated the National Land Data Programme (NLDP) to address land use pressures and improve decision making through innovative data analysis.
The Geospatial Commission recommends establishing a new Land Use Analysis Taskforce to support UK land use decisions.
Bluesky supplies geospatial data products and services to private sector customers and to all public sector organisations and local authorities in the UK via its APGB contract with the Geospatial Commission.
The Geospatial Commission, part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, launched the National Underground Asset Register (NUAR).
The Geospatial Commission has received data from over 100 additional organisations for future inclusion in NUAR and is working with many more to progress their involvement.
Many principles in the Geospatial Commission guidance are relevant for data investments more generally and support commitments in the National Data Strategy and the Roadmap to Digital and Data 2022-2025.
The Geospatial Commission’s 2022/23 plan prioritizes publishing guidance on how to make an effective case for investing in location data to ensure its full value is understood, assessed, and articulated.
The Geospatial Commission announced an intention to legislate to expand access to property attribute data held by the Valuation Office Agency.
The Geospatial Commission supported innovative businesses to meet key public sector transport data challenges and launched a project to explore how location data can support delivery of electric vehicle charge points.
The Geospatial Commission’s 2022/23 plan prioritizes continuing to rollout the National Underground Assets Register (NUAR) to build a shared national underground utilities data asset.
Ruth Cookman is the Head of Policy at the Geospatial Commission in the United Kingdom.
HM Land Registry is working with the Geospatial Commission and other Partner Bodies to ensure FAIR principles are recognized and implemented widely across the UK geospatial sector and is refining its land and property datasets to align with those principles to help customers reuse them effectively.
The Geospatial Commission will work with partners to agree a Code of Practice for the implementation of FAIR data for UK geospatial data.
The public dialogue project was launched in March and was co-funded by the Geospatial Commission and UK Research and Innovation’s Sciencewise programme.
KTN is joined in shaping and supporting the Virtual Pavilion by partners including the UK Space Agency, Space4Climate, Satellite Applications Catapult, Geospatial Commission, UKspace, and Location Data Scotland.
The Geospatial Commission will invest up to $5,670,000 for phase 2 of the Transport Location Data Competition.
The Geospatial Commission will deliver a public dialogue on location data ethics to support public confidence in the use of geospatial data.
The Geospatial Commission invested $2,830,000 to tackle transport challenges across 28 projects.