The first day of this year’s Spatial@Gov conference saw two major government policy announcements: the establishment of a National Foundation Spatial Data Framework, and the imminent whole-of-government licence of PSMA’s Geocoded National Address File (G-NAF).
The National Foundation Spatial Data Framework defines the
ten data themes that form the authoritative geographic data layers that
underpin other data and decision making. The policy recognises these as so
critical that government will focus its energy and resources on ensuring its
authoritative, reliable supply.
The whole-of-government G-NAF licence means that individual
departments no longer need to separately get a G-NAF licence, saving a lot of money and
greatly extending its potential utilisation. It is my hope that this could extend beyond
government as well.
