The UK Geospatial Strategy sets out a commitment for the Geospatial Commission to identify how improved access to better location data can support environmental outcomes. Part of Mission 2 in the strategy is to improve access to better location data. To support this mission, the Geospatial Commission’s Data Improvement Programme sponsored a study to look at the costs, benefits, and management of species data in England. It presented options to make species data more consistent, joined up and accessible for end-users by encouraging FAIR data principles. This is the full review.
The Executive Summary and Technical Summary and Recommendations can be found here