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The UK has a National Geospatial Strategy

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Or has some wit had it (I spy Bob Barr), another national geospatial strategy. Amid a recent flurry of things geospatial and amid a veritable storm of everything data, evidence and the digital economy, the Geospatial Commission last week launched  Unlocking the Power of Location , the UK's Geospatial Strategy. The questions you're asking are likely, is it any good, is it worthwhile, does it set out a clear vision, is it indeed a strategy, and you may well have drawn your own conclusions.  You should definitely read it. For all the old hacks going "here we go again", it is safe to say that as someone who bleeds geospatial and whose own career has paralleled the rise of digital geography and latterly location intelligence, you can never really get enough of what the former Director of the Geospatial Commission, William Priest, termed this geospatial moment.  And long may it continue. The Zoom launch was always going to be a challenge as strategies are necessa