This paper investigates the new tools, techniques and policies that are required to baseline and integrate the social, economic and environmental factors associated with megacities; to monitor growth and change across the megacity and to forecast areas of risk

This paper addresses the main issue of how to prevent informal urban development, especially through the use of adequate and sustainable means of land use control and good governance

This paper explores these various reasons organisations have so far found it difficult to create a definitive address that is sustainable, used for many purposes and can pass quality tests reasons and provides a number of suggestions for consideration to widen the debate and find practical solutions to the issue

Changes in current brownfield policy have resulted in a change to a "Plan, Monitor and Provide" Approach to housing provision. The paper looks at these changes and how data from Land Use Change Statistics data series and NLUD Previously Developed Land project can be used to support implementation

This paper reviews the objectives and achievements of the national geospatial data framework established in the mid 1990s (Nansen et al, 1995; Rhind, 1997), reports on the outcomes of GI framework workshop in June 2003 and proposes a way forward for establishing a GI framework by promoting a GI strategy for England.

Defence Estates reviewed their current GIS solutions against the new pressures on the business. It was found that the current regional based solutions would not meet the emerging requirement for corporate data. This paper describes the new vision that was defined for land and property Information Management and the lessons that are still being learnt as that vision is implemented

This paper explores the diversity of the surveying market across Europe and then looks at the trends which are, as a consequence, developing. Finally the paper will assess the potential impact of these changes in the market place in the immediate future

Joint ODPM/Ordnance Survey research is developing methods to populate and maintain new land use and enhanced land cover attributes using OS MasterMap™. The current focus of this work is on automated methods of attribution in which existing data sources are integrated with OS MasterMap™ followed by spatial inference procedures to extract land use and land cover. A large-scale trial, based on South Yorkshire, is providing prototype data to evaluate the technical and business feasibility of these methods.

This paper will present the approach to producing the Best Practice Guidelines for Land Information Management in the development of cities and discuss preliminary results of this investigation, identifying the key lessons learned in the case studies

This paper will present the approach to producing the Best Practice Guidelines for Land Information Management in the development of cities and discuss preliminary results of this investigation, identifying the key lessons learned in the case studies

This paper reviews the progress made in four countries (Canada, The Netherlands, Norway and New Zealand) and identifies innovation and potential lessons learned that could be applied in shaping a future UK Location Strategy

This paper reviews the Royal Mail's proposal that the delivery point densities (DPDs) of Postcode Sectors be used as the basis for retail zonal prices and their proposal of five zones, one for London (irrespective of DPD) with the remaining four being based on an annual calculation of DPDs.

This paper reviews the partnership approach in developing the Scottish Assessors portal between the 14 regional assessors as well as with local authorities and other government agencies. Also discussed will be the future direction of the project and how the Assessors’ Portal may contribute to Scotland’s national information infrastructure.

Scottish Enterprise acts as an information broker to facilitate broadband roll out in Scotland. GIS based extranet system for sharing broadband provision information between competing suppliers to reduce supplier costs. GIS based broadband demand model to enable marketing to be targeted at areas with marginal requests for broadband .