At the end of 2009, The NLPG and NSG received a Best Practice Award at a European Spatial Data Infrastructure Conference. Twelve finalists, including the NLPG/NSG managed to reach the last stage of the competition process, out of 130 original submissions from across Europe. All twelve finalists received the Award and the NLPG NSG were the only entries from England and Wales to do so.
A database, containing all of the entries approved by the SDI owners is now live. You can see the NLPG NSG entry at http://www.esdinetplus.eu/best_practice/database.html.
In the future the network will continue under the leadership of EUROGI, the European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information in particular the series of the European SDI Best Practice Awards will be continued in the next years. The main goal of the network is to promote the cross-border dialogue and exchange of Best Practices on Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) throughout Europe. For more information about the eSDI-NET+, see http://www.esdinetplus.eu/