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LANDMAP Landscape Habitats

Publisher
Natural Resources Wales
Updated
16 September 2026
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Summary

LANDMAP is a unique national information system, devised by the former Countryside Council for Wales (CCW), allowing information about landscape in Wales to be collected and organised into a nationally consistent dataset.

The LANDMAP database includes both objective and subjective information and is designed to enable landscape quality to be taken into account in decision making.

Geographic dataset showing habitat landscape classification for Wales in the form of polygons (Aspect Areas) with large amounts of associated textual information, including General, Description, Evaluation, Recommendations, Area Boundary, Evaluation and Bibliography. A LANDMAP Quality Assurance Procedure is in place to ensure that LANDMAP Information meets an agreed standard of good practice and that data is accurate and consistent across Wales.

Data links

Link Format Preview Updated
Web Mapping Service – 16/9/2026
Download Data and Web Services – 16/9/2026
View Data – 16/9/2026

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
18 March 2026
Harvest GUID
NRW_DS108651
Extent (Latitude)
53.513067° to 51.240829°
Extent (Longitude)
-5.777741° to -2.608865°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2026-03-17
Frequency of update
asNeeded
Access constraints
There are no access restrictions on this data. NRW may release, publish or disseminate it freely.
Responsible party
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) (owner, custodian, distributor); Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) (originator)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng