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Wild Land Areas 2014
The data contains boundaries of Wild Land Areas in Scotland as determined by their level of naturalness, remoteness, ruggedness and lack of built modern artefacts. Boundaries should be considered as ‘fuzzy’ rather than definitive to reflect the transitional nature of wild land. It is an update and replacement to the previously published Core Areas of Wild Land (CAWL) produced in 2013. Note that the areas have been renumbered sequentially and differ from those on the CAWL map.
Default
Identification info
- Alternative title
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Wild_land_areas_v4
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Dataset Reference Date (Creation)
- 2014-03-31
- Dataset Reference Date (Publication)
- 2014-06-23
- Identifier
- WILDLAND
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Irregular
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GEMET - Concepts, version 2.3
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landscape conservation
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landscape management
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Land cover
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Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary, version 2.00
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Wildlife
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- Limitations on Public Access
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Available under the OS OpenData licence
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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no conditions apply
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Distance
- 20 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Topic category
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- Elevation
- Environment
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Temporal reference
Temporal extent
- Begin
- 2010
- End
- 2014
Temporal extent
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / 27700 / 7.2
Distribution Information
Data format
- Data format
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Name Version ESRI shapefile
GML
KML
Geopackage
GeoJSON
ESRI File geodatabase
Transfer options
- Resource Locator
Data quality info
- Quality Scope
- Dataset
- Statement
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The data from the relative wildness map (Phase I) was split into eight wildness classes based on Jenks Natural Breaks Optimisation method. In Phase II extensive areas of the two highest classes were selected (using a guideline of >650 ha) which with their adjacent areas of high wildness suggested the largest and most wild areas. Phase III selected and defined Wild Land Areas, with boundaries drawn applying informed judgements to confirm the selection of areas following a set of guidelines. This phase allowed for the consideration of wind farm development consented or built since the wildness mapping (Phase I) was produced. Note the coastal boundaries have been cut to follow the OS BoundaryLine MHWS line. In places such as Rum and the Garvellachs this coastline was of insufficient quality so OS VectorMap District was used instead. For more detailed information visit https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/landscape/landscape-policy-and-guidance/landscape-policy-wild-land
Metadata
- File identifier
- 5EC05169-A749-433A-B1CF-0185F81E28DF XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2023-07-20T13:37:11
- Metadata standard name
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UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
Point of contact
- Individual name
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Catherine Harry
- Organisation name
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NatureScot
- Position name
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Policy & Advice Officer / Landscape Officer
- Voice
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44 01463 725098
- Delivery point
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Great Glen House, Leachkin Road
- City
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Inverness
- Postal code
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IV3 8NW
- Country
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United Kingdom
- Electronic mail address
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catherine.harry@snh.gov catherine.harry@snh.gov.uk
- Role
- Point of contact
