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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 and exhibition

The 2011 Exemplar Awards programme has now been launched. Award sponsors include; CIPFA, DCLG, SOCITM and UK Location.

Please see here if you are interested in exhibiting at the annual conference

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...

Date of National Gazetteers annual conference and exhibition announced

This year's annual conference will take place on 3 November 2011 at the Albert Hall, Nottingham, UPRN 200001402170.

The delega...

Tue, 26 Jul 2011

Exemplar Awards open for entries!

This year's National Gazetteers Exemplar Awards are now open for entries.

This is your chance to demonstrate how important you...

Tue, 26 Jul 2011

National Gazetteer Exemplar Awards 2011

Entry forms for this year's Exemplar Awards are now available. A brochure outlining the Award categories is also available, and is being se...

Wed, 13 Jul 2011

SOCITM to sponsor Integration Award

This year's Integration Award at the National Gazetteer Exemplar Awards will be sponsored by SOCITM. GeoPlace is looking forward to workin...

Fri, 8 Jul 2011

DCLG sponsors Citizen's Award

GeoPlace is pleased to announce that the Department of Communities and Local Government will sponsor the Citizens Awards at this year's Nat...

Thu, 7 Jul 2011