Identification

Title

National Forest Estate Ownership Scotland 2019

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

This dataset is a product of the Land Transaction layer within ForesterWeb used for maintaining estate transactions. Ownership relates estates acquisitions held in ForesterWeb, that is used to interrogate and maintain estate transactions by Forest Research on behalf of Forestry and Land Scotland. Attributes; OBJECTID Shape SIGN_DATE TITLE Shape_Length Shape_Area

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-forestry.opendata.arcgis.com/

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: Forestry Commission Open Data

Unique resource identifier

code

National Forest Estate Ownership Scotland 2019

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

authority code

EPSG

code identifying the spatial reference system

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700)

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

farming

biota

economy

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Forest Management

Planning

Environment

Felling

Landscape

Woodland

Ownership

Land transactions

Keyword set

keyword value

Land use

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

forest management

forestry

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.65000722346228

East bounding longitude

-0.724443780321123

North bounding latitude

60.8607664336448

South bounding latitude

54.6332382494092

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2007-12-13

code identifying the extent

GB-SCT

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2011-11-30

date type

revision

effective date

2019-03-31

Frequency of update

annually

Quality and validity

Lineage

Since 2017 maintenance in ArcGIS has been supplanted by 'ForesterWeb' cloud based mapping solution. Prior to 2017 estates data was maintained via the Deed Management System within ArcGIS. What is the Deed Management System? Estates, Forest Planning, Mapping & GeoData and ESRI (UK) Ltd have developed the Deed Management Extension. It has been designed to: 1. enable the Mapping & GeoData to interrogate and maintain the Forestry Commission's land holdings records 2. provide land ownership data to Estates staff with GIS 3. produce update polygons to maintain legal boundary information in the Forest District's 'Forester' GIS system The Deed Management System application is packaged as an ArcView 8 extension. It links ArcView 8 GIS and ORACLE (a relational database management system, or RDMS). Spatial information (polygons covering acquisitions and disposals of land areas, FC accesses, FC servitudes, legal boundaries) and deeds database information (attributes) are all managed within ArcView 8. The use of ArcSDE software sitting on a server in each territorial MGIU location further enhances the system by storing both the spatial data and the deeds attribute data in the same Oracle file, which also allows multi-user access to the data. The use of SDE also means backup arrangements are easier, since both the spatial and attribute data are backed up at the same time. Maintenance Functions in the Deed Management Extension: 1. Deed Identification 2. New Deed Creation 3. Editing of Existing Deeds 4. Deletion of Deeds 5. Creation of Information Points 6. Analysis of Deeds Data 7. Forest District A and D Layer Creation 8. Ownership Layer Creation (current land holdings) 9. Legal Boundary Layer Creation Create Legal Boundaries Generates a layer showing our current legal boundaries, by Forest District. This file does not have the internal deed boundaries shown and does not have deed attributes attached, just cost centre codes and names for the districts. This file will be used widely throughout the FC, in various GIS projects where a picture of our land holdings is required.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

ESRI Shapefile

version of format

1.0

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

No limitations on public access

Constraint set

Use constraints

Please ensure that the following acknowledgement is displayed on any hard copy: Reproduced by Permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of HMSO. © Crown copyright and database right [year]. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100021242.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Spatial Data Manager

organisation name

Forest Research

full postal address

Silvan House, 231 Corstorphine Road

Edinburgh

EH12 7AT

United Kingdom

email address

forester.geodata@forestresearch.gov.uk

responsible party role

custodian

Responsible party

contact position

Estates Development

organisation name

Forestry and Land Scotland

full postal address

1 Highlander Way

Inverness

IV2 7GB

United Kingdom

email address

fes.gis@forestry.gsi.gov.uk

responsible party role

owner

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Spatial Data Manager

organisation name

Forest Research

full postal address

Silvan House, 231 Corstorphine Road

Edinburgh

EH12 7AT

United Kingdom

email address

forester.geodata@forestresearch.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-09-02

Metadata language