Highlights and resources from the GeoPlace Conference 2026

13 Aug 2026 12:21 PM

With more than 460 registrations, 25 exhibitors and knowledge partners, 29 speakers and 36 roundtable facilitators, this year’s GeoPlace Conference brought together the location data community for a day of insight, discussion, practical advice and innovation.

Whether you attended and want to revisit the day, or missed it and want to catch up, we’ve brought together a range of resources from the conference, all available on the conference website.

• See photos from the day and the pre-conference get-together.

Missed a session or want to listen again? Audio recordings and presentation slides from each session are available online. Simply select the session you're interested in from the agenda to access the available materials. Unfortunately, due to a technical issue, some of the sessions weren't recorded.

Session reviews

We’ve also summarised the key points from each session, providing a quick and easy way to catch up on the day’s themes and discussions.

Explore the session reviews:

• Introduction to the conference 
• Connecting people to places: transforming public services through data 
• Unlocking change intelligence by breaking down internal data sharing barriers
• Practical guidance for local authorities (and others) on which, when and how to use address matching tools
• The Street Gazetteer: unlocking benefits for highway authorities
• Strengthening local authorities: launching the new member-led Street Naming and Numbering body
• Driving geospatial transformation in local government 
• Championing excellence: an overview from your Principal Chairs 

Roundtable reports

Our roundtables provided an opportunity to explore key issues in more depth, with subject matter experts facilitating discussions and delegates sharing their experience, challenges and ideas.

Facilitator notes from each roundtable are available here. The last couple of reports will be added soon.

1. ‘The Golden Record’ – what does this look like, how do you build it and who should use it?
2. Turning LLPG and LSG data into decisions by building the right departmental reports. What data do you need? Who is it for? What are the blockers? 
3. Delivering value to local government through the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA) and the National Geographic Database (NGD)
4. Joining up government policy through increased use of NGD Address and UPRNs
5. Richer addresses, greater value: leveraging third-party data to enhance OS addressing products
6. OS Data Hub: how local authorities can integrate Data Hub products into their own data environment
7. Where do I start? A chance for new Custodians and SNN officers to ask questions and find out what they really need to know
8. Tackling internal barriers to address data integration
9. Improving the address coordinates process
10.  All about third-party data
11.  Do you struggle to explain why Address and Street Gazetteers are important? How do you find the figures to prove the benefits?
12.  Data linking outcome keys: what do the current ones mean to you and how can they be improved?
13.  Early lifecycle insights 
14.  How can the Address Improvement Schedules Working Group help you?
15.  What changes do you want to see in the Address and Street DECs?
16.  GeoPlace training: priority topics and preferred ways to learn
17.  Preparing your organisation for API-first data access 
18.  Highway extents: proof-of-concept project and how you can get involved 
19.  The soon-to-be-launched VIEW data portal 
20.  From data to decisions: strengthening how we identify critical roads 
21.  How does quality data in the NSG help to minimise the impact of street works and road works on the public?
22.  Aggregating Department for Transport Street Manager data with USRNs to explore street works activity across England 
23.  NUAR adoption in local authorities
24.  Co-creating foundational data: the role of the National Street Gazetteer at Ordnance Survey 
25.  LSG Street Custodians and the new DfT road length methodology: questions and answers 
26.  Optimising postcode requests to Royal Mail: reducing queries and speeding up allocation
27.  SNN enforcement: strategies for handling enforcement and what they allow – or don’t allow – in relation to properties
28.  Shaping SNN training: what does the community need?
29.  Street naming in the dock: pointers for your legal team
30.  Resourcing and structuring LLPG, LSG and SNN functions: what works, what could improve and what support is needed for change?
31.  Preparing your data for LGR: everything you need to know – your data questions answered
32.  Breaking up your Local Street Gazetteers 
33.  Merging Addressing Gazetteers: technical issues to watch out for 
34.  Your biggest challenges approaching LGR: a therapy session
35.  7 into 1? The ups and downs of SNN through LGR
36.  LGR: supporting each other

Celebrating our Exemplar Award winners

An important part of the GeoPlace Conference is recognising the achievements of the people and organisations working to improve location data.