Rob Mahoney reports from UK

 In November 2008 the report “Place matters: the Location Strategy for the United Kingdom” was accepted by the UK Government as the direction of travel for location based information in the United Kingdom. The report states: “This Strategy will benefit government, the wider public sector, the private sector and the citizen when accessing, sharing or reusing ‘place-based’ information.”

You can download the report from here
or the full paper here (external link)