Amy Coughenour Betancourt is the Chief Executive Officer of Cadasta, an award-winning non-profit organisation that develops and promotes the use of simple digital tools and technology to help partners share critical land and resource rights information. Amy has a wealth …
Josh Dalby explains how Ricardo’s Geospatial Commission funded project is using the location of vehicles to change their behaviour to reduce emissions and improve air quality.
This blog unpacks some of the key findings of the Geospatial Commission’s survey on location data ethics.
Yesterday the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) opened the Space-Enabled and Geospatial Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) to buyers right across the public sector. The new DPS will make it easier for the public sector to procure access to a broad range …
Jamie Clark, Deputy Director (Commercial) at the Geospatial Commission, provides an overview of how the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA), that has been in place between the Geospatial Commission (GC) and Ordnance Survey (OS) since April 2020, has been delivering …
Annabelle Sampah - As lead, for the Housing and Planning Programme in the Geospatial Commission, I believe the opportunities are endless. However, early on in our investigations, we realised that it was quite difficult to get a good baseline view of what was happening across the sector and where further action could be taken to add value.
Geography and geospatial data have many applications to our lives including policing and public safety, a foundation of any democratic and progressive society.
In June last year, the Geospatial Commission published the UK Geospatial Strategy, which includes a commitment to ‘assess how location data can support the future of mobility and next-generation transport networks.’ Today, I’d like to provide an update on …
Unlocking the value of geospatial technology requires developing more people with the right skills to work with location data, across organisations and sectors, to meet the UK’s future needs and support global development. The Geospatial Commission is collaborating with a …
In this guest blog, Professor Heathwaite discusses how land use location data could help us make more joined-up decisions about land use to avert a collision course with our most valuable asset.