2010 NLPG and NSG Exemplar Awards Announced

London, 12 July 2010 - Intelligent Addressing and Local  Government Information House have announced the release of the 2010 NLPG and NSG  Exemplar Awards. The awards recognise the innovation, effort, commitment and achievement of local authorities, police and fire services in the creation, maintenance and utilisation of the National Land & Property Gazetteer (NLPG)  and the National Street Gazetteer (NSG).

Intelligent Addressing  and Local Government Information House will jointly present the awards at a one  day conference and exhibition ‘Everything Happens Somewhere’ which takes place  at Cutlers’ Hall in Sheffield on 20th October 2010.

The NLPG and  NSG are national datasets created and maintained on a daily basis by local  government. The NLPG is used by local government and their partners in the fire  and police and national parks services, to link their information and systems to  transform and improve services whilst generating real operational savings. The  NSG is the composite street index for the whole of England and Wales and is used  by local government and those organisations that work on or around highways, as  the definitive reference for coordinating street works and managing the road  network.

The NLPG and NSG together form what is probably the  largest single shared service in local government. Local government set in place  this contractual framework to maintain and share the gazetteers among councils,  police forces, fire services, national parks, conservation boards, passenger  transport services, parish councils and local government run Local Education Authority (LEA) schools.

CONTACTS:

PR Contact: William  Allbrook, Tel: +44(0)1666 826641, Email: william@allbrook.net

Intelligent  Addressing contact: Gayle Gander, Head of Marketing, +44(0)207747 3500, E-mail:  ggander@intelligent-addressing.co.uk,

http://www.intelligent-addressing.co.uk/

Local  Government Information House contact: Zoë Britt 020 7296 6602 zoe.britt@local.gov.uk

Notes to editors

The Exemplar  Award categories are:

Citizen Award:
Best example of a project  which delivers services to citizens underpinned by the NLPG/LLPG or the  NSG/LSG

Financial Award:
Best example of saving money using the NLPG/LLPG or  the NSG/LSG

Green Award:
Best example of where a service using the NLPG/LLPG or the  NSG/LSG has either reduced environmental impact or increased greener  outcomes

Integration Award:
Best example of where the NLPG/LLPG or the  NSG/LSG is linked to other council services or to local partnerships

Technology Award:
Best example of innovative application of technology  using the NLPG/LLPG or the NSG/LSG

Naming Award:
Most innovative example of street naming which is relevant  to local history and geographical context

There are four additional  awards. An overal ‘2010 Exemplar’ based upon presentations made by the winners  of the above six categories on the day at the ‘Everything Happens Somewhere’  Conference. Three additional awards will be based on statistical analysis of  gazetteer improvement.