The Location Council was formed following the recommendations of the UK Location Strategy which was published by the GI Panel in 2008.

Chaired by Defra, it mainly comprises board level and other senior representatives of the departments and agencies in local, devolved and central more...

Place Matters: The Location Strategy for the United Kingdom was produced by the GI Panel, chaired by Vanessa Lawrence and submitted to Baroness Andrews, Minister responsible more...

The Geographic Information Panel (GI Panel) aimed to give high-level advice to CLG Ministers on geographic information issues of national more...

INSPIRE is an EU Directive for establishing a European Spatial Data Infrastructure for environmental data. more...

Addresses are the most common way in which properties, including land and other assets, are identified for a range of purposes, not just the delivery of mail, and are important elements of more...

Communities and Local Government (CLG) manages the Pan-Government Agreement (PGA) on behalf of all PGA members (central government bodies). PGA 2 is the next iteration of the agreement and an more...

Local Government Information House (LGIH) manages the procurement, contracting and licensing framework for the delivery of digital mapping, geographical and spatial information services on behalf of all local government. more...

Links to historical AGI policy articles more...