UK Location Programme

UK Location Programme: Benefits

Implementing the UK Location Strategy will provide a framework to enable the interoperability of spatial or geographic information - so it can be easily discovered, combined, evaluated and re-used.

This step change will bring about substantial efficiency gains and enable the delivery for improved decision making, more effective evidence based policy making as well as more informed, targeted and efficient delivery of services.

Better Service Delivery

  • Improved / more effective Public Service
  • Improved responsiveness
  • Better cross organisational coordination

Delivering more for less

  • Reducing costs of delivery while providing more value
  • Cutting duplication and promoting reuse

Enabling the provision of innovative new services

  • Providing services which have been impractical or not cost effective to date
  • New knowledge from different combination of data / data sets

Case studies

These case studies show the benefits of GI services:

Page last modified: 26 June 2009
Page published: 26 June 2009

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs