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OS: Following approval from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), the legal process to form GeoPlace has now been finalised and production of the ‘national address gazetteer database’ to provide one definitive source of accurate spatial address data for England & Wales is now on track for delivery in the Autumn 2011.
 
GeoPlace is a public sector Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) jointly owned by the Local Government Group and Ordnance Survey.  Products produced from the national address gazetteer database will be available to all customers through Ordnance Survey.  The public sector, including local and central government, emergency services and health, will licence GeoPlace products through the Public Sector Mapping Agreement, which took effect on 1 April 2011.  
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