The Public Sector Mapping Agreement allows almost every public sector organisation in England and Wales access to a wide variety of geographic datasets provided by Ordnance Survey. This has had significant impacts on the uptake of geographic information across the public sector and created several opportunities for the provision of new geographic information services to be created, writes the Association for Geographic Information

Carla Baker and Jennifer Carlton, Intellect, take a look at where central and local government have already benefitted from geospatial technology