Identification

Title

Galloway Dark Skies Park

Alternative title(s)

FCPRODUCT.S_GALLOWAY_DARK_SKIES

Abstract

A Dark Sky Park is a place with exceptionally dark night skies, a place where people have committed to keeping those skies dark, by controlling light pollution. In November 2009, the International Dark-sky Association designated Galloway Forest Park as only the fourth Dark Sky Park in the world and the first in the UK. But that's not all. The Galloway Park is REALLY dark - a Gold Tier Dark Skies park. Very few people live in the 300 square miles of forest and hills in the park so nights really are black - apart from the stars! Forestry Commission Scotland and the people of the park are committed to keeping it that way.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://www.forestry.gov.uk/datadownload

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

name: Forestry Commission Data Download

description: Data download site

https://cagmap.snh.gov.uk/arcgis/services/fcs_national_forest_estate/MapServer/WMSServer? request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

protocol: OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map

name: 7

description: Galloway Dark Skies Park

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

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

name: Forestry Commission Open Data

Unique resource identifier

code

FCPRODUCT.S_GALLOWAY_DARK_SKIES

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

Keyword set

keyword value

Land use

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.80

East bounding longitude

-0.71

North bounding latitude

60.87

South bounding latitude

54.63

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

2009-11-01

date type

revision

effective date

2015-10-09

Frequency of update

asNeeded

Quality and validity

Lineage

This Galloway Dark Skies dataset contains a core area within a wider park boundary. The park boundary is based on the subset of Galloway Forest Park area. The core are is derived from the Forestry Commission's woodland sub-compartment database. There is an additional area included at the northern edge of the park that forms part of the Craigengillian estate. Attributes ======== NAME: Park boundary or core area COMMENT: More detail on park boundary

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

Head of M&G

organisation name

Forest Research

full postal address

Silvan House, 231 Corstorphine Road

Edinburgh

EH12 7AT

United Kingdom

email address

mapping.geodata@forestry.gsi.gov.uk

responsible party role

publisher

Responsible party

contact position

Head of Forest Enterprise

organisation name

Forestry Commission

full postal address

Silvan House, 231 Corstorphine Road

Edinburgh

EH12 7AT

United Kingdom

email address

mapping.geodata@forestry.gsi.gov.uk

responsible party role

owner

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Head of M&G

organisation name

Forest Research

full postal address

Silvan House, 231 Corstorphine Road

Edinburgh

EH12 7AT

United Kingdom

email address

mapping.geodata@forestry.gsi.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-09-02

Metadata language