National Soil Map of Scotland

• Published by: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
• Last updated: 24 March 2022
• Topic: Not added
• Licence: Other Licence ; View licence information

Summary

The systematic survey of the soils of Scotland was commenced in 1947 by staff of the Macaulay Institute for Soil Research. This dataset is the digital (vector) version of the Soils of Scotland 1:250,000 maps, which is a generalised soil map, partly derived from a 1:50,000 map of the soils of Scotland. This dataset is an inventory of the soils of Scotland and was intended for use by planners etc. This dataset has the soil lines extrapolated over the built-up areas. The soil classification used was updated in 2013 to provide a unified classification across all Soil Survey of Scotland soil maps and profile datasets(UCSS). Version 1.1 of the data includes both the original 1984 and the 2013 soil classification. Version 1.2 of the data included an updated classification table. Version 1.3 of the data include some minor polygon corrections and further revisions to the classification table. Version 1.4 of the data includes some alterations to the symbology used for display.

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Additional information

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2022-03-23
• Access contraints: no limitations on public access
• Harvest GUID: B7E65842-C041-4950-BF0C-3AF06C2DBAE7
• Extent: Latitude: 60.87° to 54.63°
• Extent: Longitude: -8.80° to -0.71°
• Spatial reference system: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700)
• Dataset reference date: 1981-01-01 (creation)
• Frequency of update: irregular
• Responsible party: The James Hutton Institute (custodian, processor)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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Licence information

This data was produced at a scale of 1:250,000. Larger scale data is available for the main agricultural areas of Scotland. Use is permitted under the terms of the Open Data licence included in the download.