By American Geographical Society
The Locus Charter outlines an ethical framework and best practices for the use of location data to protect individual and public interest. Developed in collaboration with location data and data ethics experts globally, it was launched in March 2021 by the American Geographical Society’s EthicalGEO and the Benchmark Initiative, hosted at Ordnance Survey’s Geovation.
Nine high-profile geospatial organisations have lent their support the charter as signatories. They are the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), the American Geographical Society (AGS), Association for Geographical Information (AGI), Environmental Information Systems Africa...