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Geographic Data Service

Part of Smart Data Research UK

Integrating Smart Data

through Geography

our mission

We maximise the value of diverse and nationally significant Smart Data through geographic integration, enrichment and validation. We support and empower our users to generate location-aware insight and impact for projects in the public good.

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Smart Data Research UK

The Geographic Data Service (GeoDS) is part of Smart Data Research UK’s (SDR UK) mission to unlock the power of data to improve lives. The programme brings together companies, academics, innovators and government to understand our world better and help solve social and economic challenges. We will do this by providing secure data access, being a trustworthy programme for the public and building capability for cutting-edge research. 

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  • Open Data for Neighbourhood Health: How AHAH Can Support England’s New Health Framework

    On 17 March 2026, the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England published the Neighbourhood Health Framework, setting out how the NHS and local authorities will reorganise health and care services around defined local populations. The framework represents the most significant structural commitment to place-based health delivery in England in over a decade,…

  • Beyond the Method: What the Geographic Information Science Community Must Do to Matter

    This week our Director Alex Singleton participated in a roundtable discussion hosted in the House of Lords by Lord Errol, organised by the Connected Places Catapult, bringing together industry and public sector leaders with interests in geospatial data and insight. Conversation ranged across data stewardship, skills pipelines, the language of business, digital twins, and the…

  • Unlocking the power of geographic data—by Professor Paul Longley

    Professor Paul Longley explains how the Geographic Data Service is transforming research by connecting smart data to real places and people More data is collected about us today than at any point in human history. Ever-increasing proportions are smart data, collected and retained as a by-product of human interactions with smartphones and other digital devices.…

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