UK Location Strategy
Source: Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG), UK
Place matters: the Location Strategy for the United Kingdom has been published
London: 25 November 2008
The UK Department (Ministry) of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has published a document titled: Place matters: the Location Strategy for the United Kingdom
Baroness Andrews Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Department for Communities and Local Government in the Forward to the document states:
“Key areas where the Location Strategy will be of benefit are in policy and operational areas of the public and private sector, where shared and integrated place-based information is essential for decision making. It will also be the basis for delivering the United Kingdom’s obligations under the European INSPIRE directive.
The important next steps are:
- to invite comment on the Strategy and on how it should be taken forward; and
- to ensure the appropriate funding allocations have been made to support its implementation.
These steps are being taken forward by the Location Council, led by Defra, as recommended in this report.
The report makes reference to the UK Office of Fair Trading CUPI report. (paragraph 12 page 14)
Under the heading Strategic Actions (page 19) it states:
“32. The Location Council, in consultation with the Office of Public Sector Information, should agree and maintain the minimum requirements and common standards for such details and public access, based where appropriate on recognised open standards. The details recorded should include information about how and when the dataset has been collected, its accuracy tolerances, its format and storage, and its access rights. The Location Council should monitor implementation closely and report to Ministers on DA(PED).”
Further actions are placed on the UK Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) as stated on page 22”
“47. The Office of Public Sector Information should set guidelines and minimum standards for simplification. The simplification should include:
- convergence of Terms and Conditions which are common issues and are largely dataset neutral
- a common approach to the ‘derived data issue’ of creating a dataset from the reference data, which could potentially be a substitute for it in a commercial market
- the introduction of developmental and non-commercial licences to encourage innovation (as accepted in Cm7157 in response to Recommendations 4 and 5 of The Power of Information: an independent review).
48. The simplification should take account of the trading nature of the owners of the Core Reference Geographies and should not duplicate the Government’s separate review of the pricing of public sector information by trading funds. The simplification should also ensure that Crown Copyright is protected
appropriately.”
Report References
Title: Place matters: the Location Strategy for the United Kingdom. A Report by the Geographic Information Panel to Baroness Andrews, Minister for the Geographic Information Panel
Pages: 38
Date: November 2008
Product Code: 08GSE05635
ISBN: 978-1-4098-0816-9
Contents
Foreword
Executive Summary
Place matters: The Location Strategy for the United Kingdom
Appendices
1. Background to the creation of the Location Strategy for the United Kingdom
2. The development of the Location Strategy and the list of stakeholders consulted
3. Summary of the operational changes that the implementation of the UK Location Strategy will facilitate
4. EU INSPIRE Directive themes and core reference geographies
5. Proposed governance structure for both the UK Location Strategy and INSPIRE implementation
6. Glossary of terms