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NUAR legislation: What does the Data Use and Access Bill mean for you? 

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Dr David Hodkin, NUAR Policy Lead, explains the Data Use and Access Bill's role in establishing the National Underground Asset Register to enhance underground work safety and efficiency.  On 23 October 2024 measures were tabled in Parliament as part of …

Measuring the geospatial ecosystem: innovation to quantify complexity

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Karina Matjuhhina, Fast Stream Analyst, explores the UK's geospatial market, highlighting its economic, employment and investment impact.  Geospatial data describes where places, objects and people are in any given location. These data can be static such as the address of …

NUAR Discovery update: collaboration, testing and next steps

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Richard Duffield, NUAR Discovery Project Lead, gives an update on the discovery project celebrating the extensive cross-sector collaboration that has happened thus far; examining the more detailed testing phase that we are now undertaking; and looks to the future, exploring what happens next with this exciting work.

An introduction to the NUAR Data Model

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The National Underground Asset Register presents a standardised view of pipes and cables to support safe and efficient excavation works. That view is underpinned by a data model based on a new international standard. Dr Neil Brammall, NUAR Product Owner, describes that data model and plans for sharing it.

Geospatial Shadowing Programme: working and learning together

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At the Geospatial Commission, we firmly believe in a hands-on experience and in creating connections. We recognise the importance of joining people and ideas to make big things happen. That is precisely why we introduced our Geospatial Shadowing Programme.   …

Discovering potential opportunities for the National Underground Asset Register

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The Geospatial Commission has launched a new discovery project to explore opportunities to widen access to the National Underground Asset Register. Richard Duffield, NUAR Discovery Project Lead, reveals why we started the project and how to get involved.

Going underground: developing and testing an international standard for subsurface data

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Dr Neil Brammall, NUAR Technical Product Owner, reveals his key learnings from the recent Open Standards code sprint event organised by the OGC and the role the NUAR data model has played in the implementation of key subsurface standards.