European Union location framework blueprint : version 2.0

Location data is fundamental to people and organisations and is used to deliver value in combination with other data about services, contacts or objects (data from the Internet of Things). For public administrations, location intelligence will become mainstream in digital government in two to five years. This context, growing in ambition, is further challenged by the need for interoperability supporting these services across Europe, the importance of government-validated geospatial data (core location data) in the legal context of digital government services and the other various potential sources of geospatial data which will emerge from different sectors. The European Union location framework (EULF) project, which was part of the interoperability solutions for public administrations (ISA) programme took action to tackle these challenges.