NatureScot Area boundaries

This dataset details the new NatureScot National Operations Areas, as of April 2023. These new areas replace the previous NatureScot SNH Areas (Post April 2011) boundaries. This dataset was digitised using the Ordnance Survey Boundary-Line open data, using the local authorities geometries.

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Identification info

Metadata Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Dataset Reference Date (Creation)
2010-07-16
Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
2023-06-13
Identifier
https://www.nature.scot / SNHAREAS
Distributor
  NatureScot - Data Supply Officer
Great Glen House, Leachkin Road , Inverness , IV3 8NW , United Kingdom
https://www.nature.scot
Maintenance and update frequency
Irregular

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

  • Protected sites
Limitations on Public Access
Other restrictions
Other constraints

Available under the Open Government Licence v3.0
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

no constraints
Spatial representation type
Vector
Distance
5  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Topic category
  • Environment
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Temporal reference

Temporal extent
Begin
2001
End
2014
 
Temporal extent
 
 
Reference system identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700

Distribution Information

Data format

Data format
Name Version

ESRI Shapefile

ESRI File geodatabase

GeoJSON

GML

Geopackage
 

Transfer options

Resource Locator
Protocol Resource Locator Name

OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-capabilities

 		https://ogc.nature.scot/geoserver/administrative/wms?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS&version=1.3.0

nsareas

OGC:WFS-1.0.0-http-get-capabilities

 		https://ogc.nature.scot/geoserver/administrative/wfs?request=GetCapabilities&service=WFS

administrative:nsareas

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

 		https://gis-downloads.nature.scot/NSAREA_SCOTLAND_SHP_27700.zip

ESRI Shapefile (EPSG:27700)

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

 		https://gis-downloads.nature.scot/NSAREA_SCOTLAND_GDB_27700.zip

ESRI File geodatabase (EPSG:27700)

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

 		https://gis-downloads.nature.scot/NSAREA_SCOTLAND_GPKG_27700.zip

Geopackage (EPSG:27700)

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

 		https://gis-downloads.nature.scot/NSAREA_SCOTLAND_GML_4258.zip

GML (EPSG:4258)

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

 		https://gis-downloads.nature.scot/NSAREA_SCOTLAND_GEOJSON_4326.zip

GeoJSON (EPSG:4326)

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		https://opendata.nature.scot/datasets/naturescot-area-boundaries/explore

NatureScot OpenData Hub
 
 

Data quality info

Quality Scope
Dataset
Conformity
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Explanation
Degree
false
 

Metadata

File identifier
140c33e9-1b6c-4aef-9d59-f27f6ff05157 XML
Metadata Language
English
Resource type
Dataset
Metadata Date
2025-01-08T13:28:13.832Z
Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

Point of contact

Organisation name

NatureScot
Position name

Data Supply Officer
Delivery point

Great Glen House, Leachkin Road
City

Inverness
Postal code

IV3 8NW
Country

United Kingdom
Electronic mail address

data_supply@nature.scot supply@nature.sco data_supply@nature.scot

Role
Point of contact
Point of contact
  NatureScot - Data Supply Officer
Great Glen House, Leachkin Road , Inverness , IV3 8NW , United Kingdom
 
 
 

Overviews

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units Protected sites

Publishing Body

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Associated resources (if any)

Not available