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GeoPlace

On 3 December 2010, Eric Pickles MP, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, announced the formation of a single national address gazetteer. The new national address gazetteer will provide one definitive source of accurate publicly-owned spatial address data for the whole of the public sector.

2011 National Gazetteers Exemplar Awards

Exemplar AwardsEverything Happens Somewhere conference, exhibition and Exemplar Awards

View the Exemplar Award winners here

Listen to and view the conference presentations here

NLPG for the MSA extension community

Waste collectionThe NLPG hub is managed by GeoPlace under the Mapping Services Agreement. This contract is managed by the Local Government Information House (LGIH) on behalf of LLPG gazetteer maintaining local authorities. For further information on the NLPG for this community, and to download the latest Exemplar Award case studies, follow the above title link.

NLPG for the PSMA community

Fire fightingThe Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA), led by DCLG, helps to join up government through the sharing of location data between all its members; local government, emergency services, central government and health. All these organisations will be able to use the data, including the NLPG, on the same licensing terms, providing a licensing framework that enables more collaborative working with all delivery partners and enabling greater data sharing.

NLPG for the commercial sector

NLPG for Satellite NavigationEverything happens somewhere. The onward uses of the NLPG are huge, from wider public sector use to commercial applications in insurance, the utilities, customer profiling, logistics, satellite navigation and many more. Follow the title link to learn more about commercial availability of the NLPG.

Latest news...

GeoPlace granted ISO 9001:2008 renewal

GeoPlace has announced the full renewal of its ISO 9001:2008 certification for another three years following an external audit by Lloyds Re...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012

GeoPlace wins Best Project Delivery at UK Public Sector Digital Awards

GeoPlace is honoured to be one of two winners of the Best Project Delivery category at the 2011 UK Public Sector Digital Awards for the dev...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012

Mendip District Council is looking for ICT Officer

ICT Officer - Mendip District Council

We are looking for an enthusiastic person to develop, maintain and support the Council's...

Fri, 20 Jan 2012

Everything Happened in Nottingham

The latest edition of GIS Professional carries a review of the annual GeoPlace conference and Exemplar Awards.

Thu, 19 Jan 2012

One Version of The Truth - Worcestershire Case Study

Closer working for gazetteer synchronicity in Worcestershire:

Wed, 18 Jan 2012