AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Landscape Map of Scotland

The map reflects the great diversity of landscapes within the country, and the regional distinctiveness which that creates. Together with the accompanying descriptions and photographs, the areas identified should have a resonance with those who know these landscapes, and perhaps enable them to gain a feel for areas they don't know so well.

The project highlights what it is that gives familiar areas their distinctiveness and identity; suggests what might attract people to explore new areas; and should help instill a desire to ensure that the diversity of Scotland's landscapes is not diminished. It is about place at the broad scale.

Tags: Elevation, Geology, Land cover, Soil
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
NatureScot Area boundaries

This dataset details the new NatureScot National Operations Areas, as of April 2023. These new areas replace the previous NatureScot SNH Areas (Post April 2011) boundaries. This dataset was digitised using the Ordnance Survey Boundary-Line open data, using the local authorities geometries.

Tags: Area management/restriction/regulation zones and r, Protected sites
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
European Diploma Areas (Scotland)

The European Diploma is an award established by the Council of Europe under Regulation (65) 6 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe of 6 March 1965 for certain landscapes, reserves and protected national features, and Resolution (73) 4 of 19 January 1973 on the Regulations for the European Diploma (amended and revised by Resolution (88) 39 of 5 December 1988, (89) 12 of 19 June 1989 and (91) 16 of 17 June 1989). 

By awarding the European Diploma, the Council of Europe recognises that the area is of particular European interest for natural-heritage and that the area is properly protected.

The Diploma can be awarded to national parks, nature reserves or natural areas, sites or features. The award is for a five-year period. Annual reports are required for each area, and the renewal of the award at 5 years is only made after independent assessment of the site. The Diploma can be withdrawn at any time if the area comes under threat or suffers serious damage.

Tags: Nature conservation, Protected sites
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Carbon and Peatland 2016 map - Wind Farm Spatial Framework

This is a simplified version of the Carbon and Peatland 2016 map for use in the development of windfarm spatial framework. It only shows the extent of areas within Class 1 and 2 of the classification. To access the unabridged version, select the Carbon and Peatland 2016 dataset.

Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) has prepared a consolidated spatial dataset of "carbon rich soil, deep peat and priority peatland habitats" in Scotland derived from existing soil and vegetation data (James Hutton Institute 1:25,000 and 1:250,000 scale soil data and Land Cover Scotland 1988).

The resulting Carbon and Peatland map updated earlier work undertaken by SNH for the identification of natural heritage features of national importance available from Scotland's soil website. The map is a high-level planning tool to promote consistency and clarity in the preparation of spatial frameworks by planning authorities. The map is a predictive tool which provides an indication of the likely presence of peat on each individually-mapped area, at a coarse scale. The types of peat shown on the map are carbon-rich soils, deep peat and priority peatland habitat.

For more information visit https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/planning-and-development/planning-and-development-advice/soils/carbon-and-peatland-2016-map

Tags: Land use, Mineral resources, Soil
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
CNP Grassland Mapping Project 2020-22

This web map and collection of data layers provides information on the location, extent, quality, and condition of species-rich grassland (SRG) sites in the Cairngorms National Park (CNP) - outputs from a joint project between NatureScot and the Cairngorms National Park Authority. 

Coverage includes the Spey, Avon, Livet and Dee river catchments.

Tags: Bio-geographical regions, Cadastral parcels, Habitats and biotopes, Land cover, Species distribution
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Natural Heritage Futures

Many countries around the world have begun to adopt zonation systems as a strategic framework to guide their approach to the conservation, enhancement, understanding and use of the natural heritage. The natural heritage zonation approach adopted by NatureScot is intended to provide a logical framework, reflecting the diversity of Scotland's natural heritage, within which NatureScot can clearly and simply plan and execute its work. The zones are not, therefore, intended as a classification of the natural heritage but, rather as an operational tool which is founded in the natural heritage.

Further details: https://www.nature.scot/about-naturescot/our-work/natural-heritage-futures

Tags: Protected sites
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Scotland's wildness - remoteness

One of four component layer of the Scottish map of relative wildness. This layer shows remoteness from the public road, rail and ferry network. The dataset is on a scale of 1-256 indicating relative levels of remoteness. Consequently the data is best viewed at a national or regional scale. The methodology is adapted from the 2008 Wildness Study in the Cairngorms National Park.

Remoteness is taken as the relative time taken to walk from the nearest public road, railway station or ferry landing (being the point of mechanised access), taking account of distance, relative slope, ground cover and barrier features such as open water and very steep ground.

Tags: Countryside conservation, Elevation, Geology, Soil
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
LIDAR Composite - Coverage and Extents for Scotland

This data is no longer available on the Defra Data Services Platform. 

Visit Scottish Remote Sensing Portal to access the latest LIDAR data for Scotland: https://remotesensingdata.gov.scot/data#/list

This dataset shows each tile available and the extent of data in each individual tile that went into the merging process to create the LIDAR Composite DSM & DTM. The data is supplied as a shapefile.
This metadata record is for Approval for Access product AfA458. Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) is an airborne mapping technique, which uses a laser to measure the distance between the aircraft and the ground. Up to 300,000 measurements per second are made of the ground, allowing highly detailed terrain models to be generated at spatial resolutions of between 25cm and 2 metres.
The Environment Agency’s LIDAR data archive contains digital elevation data derived from surveys carried out by the Environment Agency's specialist remote sensing team.
This dataset is derived from a combination of our full dataset which has been merged and re-sampled to give the best possible coverage. Data is available at 2m, 1m, 50cm, and 25cm resolution. The dataset can be supplied as a Digital Surface Model produced from the signal returned to the LIDAR (which includes heights of objects, such as vehicles, buildings and vegetation, as well as the terrain surface) or as a Digital Terrain Model produced by removing objects from the Digital Surface Model. 
The dataset can be presented as an ESRI ASCII Raster which contains height values, or as a georeferenced JPEG which is an image showing what LIDAR looks like when loaded into specialist software. Attribution statement: Visit Scottish Remote Sensing Portal for information.

Tags: aerial photography, environment, flood, remote sensing
Organization: Environment Agency
2m LIDAR Composite DSM & DTM for Scotland

This data is no longer available on the Defra Data Services Platform. 

Visit Scottish Remote Sensing Portal to access the latest LIDAR data for Scotland: https://remotesensingdata.gov.scot/data#/list

This metadata record is for Approval for Access product AfA458. Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) is an airborne mapping technique, which uses a laser to measure the distance between the aircraft and the ground. Up to 100,000 measurements per second are made of the ground, allowing highly detailed terrain models to be generated at spatial resolutions of between 25cm and 2 metres.
The Environment Agency’s LIDAR data archive contains digital elevation data derived from surveys carried out by the Environment Agency's specialist remote sensing team.
This dataset is derived from a combination of our full dataset which has been merged and re-sampled to give the best possible coverage. Data is available at 2m, 1m, 50cm, and 25cm resolution. The dataset can be supplied as a Digital Surface Model produced from the signal returned to the LIDAR (which includes heights of objects, such as vehicles, buildings and vegetation, as well as the terrain surface) or as a Digital Terrain Model produced by removing objects from the Digital Surface Model. 
The dataset can be presented as an ESRI Binary Grid which contains height values, or as a georeferenced JPEG which is an image showing what LIDAR looks like when loaded into specialist software. Attribution statement: Visit Scottish Remote Sensing Portal for information.

Tags: aerial photography, environment, flood, remote sensing
Organization: Environment Agency
1m LIDAR Composite DSM & DTM for Scotland

This data is no longer available on the Defra Data Services Platform. 

Visit Scottish Remote Sensing Portal to access the latest LIDAR data for Scotland: https://remotesensingdata.gov.scot/data#/list

This metadata record is for Approval for Access product AfA458. Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) is an airborne mapping technique, which uses a laser to measure the distance between the aircraft and the ground. Up to 300,000 measurements per second are made of the ground, allowing highly detailed terrain models to be generated at spatial resolutions of between 25cm and 2 metres.
The Environment Agency’s LIDAR data archive contains digital elevation data derived from surveys carried out by the Environment Agency's specialist remote sensing team. 
This dataset is derived from a combination of our full dataset which has been merged and re-sampled to give the best possible coverage. Data is available at 2m, 1m, 50cm, and 25cm resolution. The dataset can be supplied as a Digital Surface Model produced from the signal returned to the LIDAR (which includes heights of objects, such as vehicles, buildings and vegetation, as well as the terrain surface) or as a Digital Terrain Model produced by removing objects from the Digital Surface Model. 
The dataset can be presented as an ESRI Binary Grid which contains height values, or as a georeferenced JPEG which is an image showing what LIDAR looks like when loaded into specialist software. Attribution statement: Visit Scottish Remote Sensing Portal for information.

Tags: aerial photography, environment, flood, remote sensing
Organization: Environment Agency
50cm LIDAR Composite DSM & DTM for Scotland

This data is no longer available on the Defra Data Services Platform. 
Visit Scottish Remote Sensing Portal to access the latest LIDAR data for Scotland: https://remotesensingdata.gov.scot/data#/list 

This metadata record is for Approval for Access product AfA458. Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) is an airborne mapping technique, which uses a laser to measure the distance between the aircraft and the ground. Up to 300,000 measurements per second are made of the ground, allowing highly detailed terrain models to be generated at spatial resolutions of between 25cm and 2 metres.
The Environment Agency’s LIDAR data archive contains digital elevation data derived from surveys carried out by the Environment Agency's specialist remote sensing team.
This dataset is derived from a combination of our full dataset which has been merged and re-sampled to give the best possible coverage. Data is available at 2m, 1m, 50cm, and 25cm resolution. The dataset can be supplied as a Digital Surface Model produced from the signal returned to the LIDAR (which includes heights of objects, such as vehicles, buildings and vegetation, as well as the terrain surface) or as a Digital Terrain Model produced by removing objects from the Digital Surface Model. 
The dataset can be presented as an ESRI Binary Grid which contains height values, or as a georeferenced JPEG which is an image showing what LIDAR looks like when loaded into specialist software. Attribution statement: Visit Scottish Remote Sensing Portal for information.

Tags: aerial photography, environment, flood, remote sensing
Organization: Environment Agency
Maintenance Line

A feature which has a line / curve geometry and provides information about whether the road is maintained at public expense by a national or local highway authority, a road authority or is maintained by another responsible organisation (i.e. not maintained at public expense). If a path is prospectively maintainable at public expense, then this is not currently maintained by a road or highway authority, but the responsible organisation has started the process for a highway or road authority to become responsible for the maintenance of the street at public expense.

Organization: Ordnance Survey
Alcohol Prohibition Areas - Aberdeenshire

Local authorities have the power to make by-laws to prohibit the drinking of alcohol in designated public places under provisions contained in the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (under sections 201, 202 and 203) subject to confirmation by Scottish Ministers. To date, 27 local authorities across Scotland have by-laws which prohibit the drinking of alcohol in designated public places in more than 480 towns and villages across Scotland, together with the built up areas within the city of Glasgow and Edinburgh have such by-laws. They range from a total ban on drinking at all times, to a ban at specified times or on specified days.

"area_name" and "designation_date" are now MANDATORY fields for this dataset.

Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Article 4 Directions - Aberdeenshire

An Article 4 Direction is a statement made under The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2011. The Direction, made by a local authority and approved by Scottish Ministers, removes all or some of the permitted development rights on an area.

The effect of a Direction is that planning permission will be required for specific types of development which would otherwise be regarded as 'permitted development', i.e. development that does not require a planning application. Directions can cover a variety of minor works and might include: the replacement of doors and windows, the erection of gates, fences, garages, sheds, porches, storage tanks or the installation of satellite antennae.

Article 4 Directions complement Conservation Areas and may overlap these. This dataset should be used alongside Conservation Areas when considering built environment heritage constraints on development.

Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Polling Places - Aberdeenshire

A Polling District is a geographical subdivision of an electoral area such as an electoral Ward within which a polling place is designated.

The Representation of the People Act 1983 places a duty on LA to divide the local authority area into polling districts based on ward boundaries, and to designate a polling place for each district. LAs also have a duty to keep these polling arrangements under review. The Electoral Administration Act 2006 introduced amendments to the 1983 Act (which in turn has been superseded by The Electoral Administration Act 2013). Now local authorities must conduct a full review (with public consultation) of its polling districts and polling places every four years, however adjustments to the boundaries of polling districts and the designation of polling places within LA wards can be proposed at any time in response to changes in ward boundaries or to the availability of premises that can be reasonably designated as polling places.

The Fifth Review of Electoral Arrangements concluded in May 2016 when the LGBCS made recommendations to Scottish Ministers for the number of Councillors and the electoral ward boundaries in each of Scotland's 32 local authorities. The review recommended changes in 30 LA areas of which all but 5 were accepted and came into force on 30th Sept 2016. As a result, ward boundaries (and therefore polling districts and possibly polling places) were changed after this date in time for the May 2017 elections.

The following fields are now MANDATORY fields for this dataset.
"district_code" - The polling district code linked to the polling place
"UPRN" - The Unique Property Reference Number for the Corporate Address Gazeteer record of the polling place
"polling_place" - The name and/or address of the polling place (based on the Corporate Address Gazeteer record)

Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Local Nature Conservation Sites - Aberdeenshire

Local nature conservation sites (LNCS) is a non-statutory designation given by local authorities to areas of locally important nature and landscapes. NatureScot, on behalf of the Local Nature Conservation Sites Working Group, published guidance (https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/protected-areas-and-species/protected-areas/local-designations/local-nature-conservation-sites) for local authorities on the establishment and management of LNCS systems in Scotland.

Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Tree Preservation Orders - Aberdeenshire

*Whilst TPOs are a legal requirement they may not always be digitised accurately. Users of this data should not assume this data is totally accurate and should consult the specific local authority for more detail before making any decisions*

A TPO is made by the Local Authority, under Section 160 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997, and within the procedures set out in the Town and Country Planning (Tree Preservation Order and Trees in Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Regulations 1975-1984. They are made to protect individual trees, groups of trees or woodlands which have particular amenity value, make a significant contribution to the landscape or townscape or because there may be a potential threat to the trees. Deciding which trees qualify to become protected the local authority must ensure that the trees contribute to the amenity and attractiveness of an area and be under threat in some way. Either individual specimens or groups can be protected in a single Order. There are no guidelines on which species of tree can be included in an Order.

The process starts with a Provisional Order, this is served on the owner of the land and comes into effect immediately. Once confirmed, the TPO will remain indefinitely and are recorded in the Land Register of Scotland. They then become legal burdens on the land occupied by present and future owners so that when the land is sold on, the title passes on with the TPO.

Some local authorities capture polygons of tree preservation areas. Others will identify actual trees as point TPOs. Several LAs capture both. We have initially created two separate layers - point and polygon, to represent TPOs. This may show duplication where a point falls within a polygon. We may adapt this rationale and methodology in due course as we know that there is discrepancy with Registers of Scotland's TPO data.

Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Local Nature Reserves - Aberdeenshire

Local Nature Reserves are areas of (at least) locally important natural heritage, designated and managed by local authorities to give people better opportunities to learn about and enjoy nature close to where they live. They are found across the country, but generally close to towns and cities.
More details are available here: https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/protected-areas-and-species/protected-areas/local-designations/local-nature-reserves
Where we have not been supplied with data by local authorities we are extracting it from a previously produced NatureScot national dataset.

Site name, designation date, website URL (for more information) and PA code are all mandatory attributes for this dataset now.

Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Paths And Core Paths - Aberdeenshire

Every local authority and National Park authority (access authorities) in Scotland is required to draw up a plan for a system of paths (core paths) sufficient for the purpose of giving the public reasonable access throughout their area. 

Core paths are paths, waterways or any other means of crossing land to facilitate, promote and manage the exercise of access rights under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003, and are identified as such in access authority core paths plan.

There are, intentionally, no set physical standards for core paths. This means that core paths can physically be anything from a faint line across a field to a fully constructed path, track or pavement. The National Access Forum, Scottish Natural Heritage and Scottish Government are encouraging information to be surveyed and made publicly available, in a nationally-standardised form, so that the public will know what physical type of route they can expect. Government guidance is making core paths the priority for rolling out this national standardised grading system information, which is set out at http://www.pathsforall.org.uk/pfa/creating-paths/path-grading-system.html

Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
NHS Greenspace UKHab survey data

Habitat classification based on UKHAB 2.0 of all broad Primary Habitats of NHS Glasgow, NHS Highland and NHS Tayside Sites for Greenspace Project. These are habitat categorised to UKHab level 4 including urban and green habitats, located around selected NHS Glasgow, NHS Highland and NHS Tayside sites.

Layer styling based on https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/site-elements/documents/pdf/environment/conservation/lnr/appendix-1-uk-habitat-classification-ukhab-habitat-definitions.pdf

Tags: Protected sites
Organization: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Parking Services Penalty Charge Notices 2019-20

This dataset contains transactional penalty charge notice data held in the London Borough of Camden's parking management system; inclusive of penalty charge notices issued by Civil Enforcement Officers on street and those issued by Civil Enforcement Officers via CCTV. Attribution includes contravention code, ticket type, street, parking restriction, vehicle category and status of case.

Where possible, the approximate location of the PCN has been captured. The 'Spatial Accuracy' column can be used to determine what level of location has been captured:

Civil Enforcement Officer GPS Location = the GPS location reported by the CEO's handheld device 
Fixed CCTV Camera = the location of the CCTV camera, this could be many metres from the vehicle in contravention 
Unknown = No location has been captured

Tags: contravention, parking, parking ticket, pcn
Organization: London Borough of Camden