Unitisation Boundaries
Designated sites in Wales include, but is not limited to, Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), Special Protection Areas (SPA), Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) and Ramsar sites. These sites have been divided into management units. This dataset contains the boundaries of these units and includes information such as designation type, unit name, unit area, national grid reference and former Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) regions.
Digitising began in 2007 and is on going as and when new sites are created or existing sites are altered. The purpose of these management units is to have a coherent plan in order to manage sites in a practical manner to ensure that work is done to get sites and their corresponding features into a favourable condition, as per the requirements of the protected sites.
- Identification
- Extent
- Distribution
- Quality
- Keywords
- Spatial Reference System
- Content
- Constraints
- Maintenance
- Metadata
Identification
- Identifier
- NRW_DS112540
- Alternative Title
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- Unitization Boundaries.LYR
- Sites of Special Scientific Interest, Special Areas of Conservation, Speacial Protection Areas and Ramsar Sites
- Unedau rheoli safleoedd dynodedig (SoDdGA), AGA, ACA a Safleoedd Ramsar)
- Metadata Language
- English
- Lineage
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Management units are generally digitised using OS Mastermap 2006 (exceptions to this are noted in the MapInfo table). The data is then cleaned and entered into Oracle Spatial. When new protected sites are designated, or existing sites are amended, there can be a lag time for when the unitisation layer is updated to reflect the latest changes. Therefore this layers should not be used as the definitive source for showing protected site boundaries.
- Dataset Reference Date (Publication)
- 2024-02-29
Temporal Extent
- Begin date
- 2007-01-01
- Topic category
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- Boundaries
Extent
Extent
- Geographic Extent
- Wales (WLS)
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Distribution
Distribution
- Format Type and Description
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Geographic Information System
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- Specification
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[A] MapInfo tables and Oracle Spatial [B] ESRI Feature Class
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Geographic Information System
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- Resource Locator
- Web Mapping Service ( OGC:WMS )
- Resource Locator
- Download Data and Web Services ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
Quality
Data quality
- Quality Scope
- Dataset
- Conformity
- Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Explanation
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This dataset has not been assessed for conformance to the referenced INSPIRE regulation.
- Degree
- false
- Lineage
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Management units are generally digitised using OS Mastermap 2006 (exceptions to this are noted in the MapInfo table). The data is then cleaned and entered into Oracle Spatial. When new protected sites are designated, or existing sites are amended, there can be a lag time for when the unitisation layer is updated to reflect the latest changes. Therefore this layers should not be used as the definitive source for showing protected site boundaries.
Keywords
Keywords
Keywords
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NRW Thesaurus
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- Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)
- actions database
- unitisation
- geographical information systems (GIS)
- isis
- Special Protection Areas (SPAs) (see also proposed Special Protection Area pSPA)
- management unit
- Ramsar sites
- Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) (see also Candidate Special Areas of Conservation cSAC)
- designation (designated sites)
- units
- Type
- Theme
Citation
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-06-19
Keywords
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NRW SMNR Keywords
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- Coastal Margins (SMNR)
- Semi-natural Grasslands (SMNR)
- Natural Resources (Incl. Features and Processes) (SMNR)
- Ecosystem (SMNR)
- Freshwater and Wetlands (SMNR)
- Animals, Plants and Other Organisms (SMNR)
- Enclosed Farmlands (SMNR)
- Soils (SMNR)
- Water Resources (SMNR)
- Management Areas (SMNR)
- Woodlands (SMNR)
- Mountains, Moorland and Heaths (SMNR)
- Marine (SMNR)
- Sustainable Management of Natural Resources (SMNR)
- Type
- Theme
Citation
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-06-26
Spatial Reference System
Content
Content Information
NRW Profile
Custom Elements
Constraints
Constraints
Limitations on Public Access and Use
- Restriction type
- Other restrictions
Access Constraints Directive
- Limitations
- no limitations
Access Constraints Text
- Other constraints
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The following data is considered OS derived data and is therefore jointly owned by NRW and the Ordnance Survey. There are no access restrictions on this data. However there are third party use restrictions.
Use Constraints
- Use constraints type
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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© CNC/NRW All rights Reserved. Contains Ordnance Survey Data. Ordnance Survey Licence number AC0000849444. Crown Copyright and Database Right Data may be re-used under the terms of the Open Government Licence providing it is done so, acknowledging both the source and copyright of the owners. It is the recipient's responsibility to ensure the data is fit for the intended purpose.
Attribution Statement
- Other constraints
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Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and Database Right. All rights Reserved. Contains Ordnance Survey Data. Ordnance Survey Licence number AC0000849444. Crown Copyright and Database Right.
Licence
- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence
Metadata
Metadata
- File Identifier
- 4f4c4942-4343-5764-6473-313132353430 XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2025-02-04T10:16:38.744Z
- Metadata Standard Name
- NRW
- Metadata Standard Version
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1.0