Core datasets for Scotland and their custodians
Thematic listing of datasets based on INSPIRE
1. Geographical location (i.e. reference system, rather than topography)
Ordnance Survey - National Grid
2. Administrative units
Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland - Wards, Local Government Areas
Boundary Commission for Scotland - Constituencies
General Register Office for Scotland - Registration Districts
3. Properties, buildings and addresses
Registers of Scotland – property ownership
Local Authorities – street names and addresses
Ordnance Survey – location and extent of buildings, physical property boundaries and
addresses
Royal Mail – addresses
Assessors – addresses, non-addressables and locations
General Register Office for Scotland – postcode boundaries
4. Elevation
Ordnance Survey – height products
Private sector height products
5. Geo-physical environment
British Geological Survey – surface and deep geology
Scottish Environmental Protection Agency – monitoring of man-made geo impacts
6. Land surface
Ordnance Survey – from OS MasterMap
Scottish Natural Heritage - ??
General Register Office for Scotland – Urban areas (Localities, settlements)
SEERAD CAP Management – Agricultural areas
7. Transport
Ordnance Survey – Integrated Transport Network layer of OS MasterMap
Private sector data providers
Transport provider companies
8. Utilities and facilities
Scottish Water
Private sector utility companies
Ordnance Survey – OS MasterMap
9. Society and population
General Register Office for Scotland – census data
Scottish Enterprise – LEC areas
Local Authorities – school catchments
NHS Scotland - Health areas
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10. Air and climate
Scottish Environmental Protection Agency –
Meteorological Office
11. Inland water and hydrography
Scottish Environmental Protection Agency –
12. Ocean and seas
Scottish Environmental Protection Agency –
UK Hydrographic Office British Geological Survey – sub-sea geology
Ordnance Survey - coastline
13. Natural resources, biodiversity, anthropogenic stress
Scottish Natural Heritage
14. Natural and technological risks
Scottish Environmental Protection Agency –
Emergency Services Scottish Executive – emergency service boundaries
15. Cultural Heritage
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland Historic Scotland Version 1.1
29 April 2003
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