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The Geospatial Commission is increasing the location data available to the public sector across England and Wales. Known as the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement, it will be delivered by Ordnance Survey and will start from 1 April 2020聽
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Any public sector organisations ranging from health and emergency services, town, parish, and community councils through to central government departments can sign up via to use the data, free at the point of use. Known as the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement, it will be delivered by the national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey and will start from 1 April 2020.
Director of the Geospatial Commission, Thalia Baldwin, said
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Chief Executive of Ordnance Survey, Steve Blair, added
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From the 1 July 2020 businesses will be able to access, free up to a threshold, OS MasterMap data through a series of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
For further information, please see the Ordnance Survey
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