Exemplar Award 2026

We want to celebrate your work. It really does make a difference.

GeoPlace’s Exemplar Awards are a compelling way to demonstrate to local authority leaders the value of investing in high-quality data—and how best practice can be replicated in their own areas.

Throughout the last few years, local authorities have once again shown outstanding commitment to resilient address and street data. Custodians continue to lead the way, raising standards and delivering exceptional services that benefit communities nationwide.

We are now open for entries to the 2026 Exemplar Awards, recognising the innovative and impactful work delivered by local government teams.

If your project has delivered real benefits to residents, your authority, or local partners, perhaps through effective use of maintained data, cross-service collaboration, or creative applications, please share it with us.

Judges will particularly value entries that clearly demonstrate savings achieved, collaboration across services or organisations, and meeting genuine user needs.

Entries could draw on:

• integrating gazetteers with other departments
• using UPRNs/USRNs to enable data sharing, inform policy, and shape strategy
• collaborating with emergency services or other partners
• joining data and systems for better service delivery

Feel free to submit one entry or several, we know the potential of location data is limitless! We especially welcome stories that show the human impact of your work or illustrate financial/efficiency savings. 

For tips, judging criteria, applying and conditions of entry, please see judging criteria.

Please find the application form below.