今天，南安普顿;明天，世界

当我完成我的社论时，这个消息到了，应该值得，我认为，骄傲的地方。我们都知道Vanessa Lawrence如何通过一些动荡的时间推动了任何动荡的调查，因为超过100年的卫生最长的服务负责人，她的逐步离职肯定是新闻价值：

Dr Vanessa Lawrence CB, Director General and Chief Executive of Ordnance Survey, will step down on 14 April to focus, for the rest of this year, on a new role as Secretary General of Ordnance Survey International. Her current deputy, Neil Ackroyd, will act as head of the national mapping agency until a successor is recruited. Vanessa will also continue in her role as Co-Chair of the UN-GGIM. We will of course report on her new roles but I can’t help wondering what 2015 will bring!

I am pretty sure that Vanessa was a founding member of the Association for Geographic Information in 1989 and was certainly its chair for one of its 25 years. Anne Kemp, in the current chair’s column, explains AGI’s new branding and is delighted that the Council is entering into discussions on closer cooperation with the Royal Geographical Society. Could we see a merger?

土地登记处位于至少部分私有化的道路上 - 业务部门，创新和技能部门已关闭其关于如何最好地建立“服务交付公司”的磋商。与此同时，土地登记处正在寻求关于其潜在作用处理当地土地费用的意见 - 这两者明显相关，因为后者将增加新的服务交付公司的价值，这反过来需要改变立法在现在由地方当局处理的角色。查看我们的新闻第6和7页。

Future Cities was the theme of a very successful AGI event in Glasgow – as reported by Abigail Page – and Smart Cities feature in Mark Jackson’s article on page 10. Whether ‘future’ or ‘smart’ there will be city lights and Faith Clark details how Bluesky are monitoring those lights in Leicester (page 08). We also have a case study on the use of Open Source software in the water industry and Roger Longhorn explains what the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association is all about. Plus your editor will be helping to facilitate a “thinkshop” in Edinburgh later this month – cunningly scheduled for St George’s Day in the land of the Saltire – as part of the EC smeSpire project supporting small businesses using environmental data. Talking of INSPIRE, we have persuaded the AGI SIG to document its response to the mid-term consultation on that Directive – seven years down and seven to go! See page 16.

Also in this issue is news about English local authorities receiving £2.6m from Defra for INSPIRE implementation; ONS recommending that the next census should go online but be compulsory for all households as at present; and Royal Mail drafting a new public sector licence for PAF, which will run from April 2015 and replace the existing temporary deal.

最后，我对圣帕特里克周末的爱尔兰的访问非常阐明爱尔兰GI，并非最不重要的是即将到来的爱尔兰邮政编码。是的，我在4月1日写的，但中午之后！到2015年翡翠岛应该有邮政编码 - 但不是我们所知道的（参见第22页）。

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