Digital Geological Map Data of Great Britain - 50k (DiGMapGB-50) Artificial version 7
Data identifies landscape areas (shown as polygons) attributed with type of artificial or man-made ground. It indicates areas where the ground surface has been significantly modified by human activity. Types of artificial ground include: Disturbed ground areas of ill-defined shallow or near surface mineral workings where distinction cannot be made between made and worked ground. Infilled ground areas where original geology has been removed and then wholly or partially back filled includes waste or landfill sites. Landscaped ground areas where surface has been reshaped includes former sand and gravel workings for recreation and amenity use. Made ground man made features including embankments and spoil heaps. Worked ground areas where ground has been removed including quarries and road cuttings. Whilst artificial ground may not be considered as part of the 'real geology' of bedrock and superficial deposits it does affect them. Artificial ground impacts on the near surface ground conditions which are important to human activities and economic development. Due to the shifting nature of land use and re-use caution must be exercised when using this data as it represents a snapshot in time rather than an evolving picture hence the data may become dated very rapidly. The data are available in vector format (containing the geometry of each feature linked to a database record describing their attributes) as ESRI shapefiles and are available under BGS data licence.
INSPIRE
Identification
- File identifier
- 08353f50-44a6-5f48-e054-002128a47908 XML
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Online resource
Resource identifier
- Metadata language
- English
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Encoding
- Format
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ESRI shapefiles
Projection
Classification of data and services
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
Keywords
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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UK Location (INSPIRE)
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Maps
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Digital maps
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GIS
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Geology
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Data
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Geographic coverage
Temporal reference
Temporal extent
- End
- 2013
Temporal extent
- Date (Creation)
- 2013
Quality and validity
- Lineage
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The data shows artificial ground polygons, for further lineage information see Digital Geological Map of Great Britain, information notes, 2013, http://www.bgs.ac.uk/downloads/start.cfm?id=644
- Denominator
- 250000
Conformity
Conformity
Conformity
Restrictions on access and use
- Access constraints
- license
- Access constraints
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The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
- Access constraints
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The dataset is made available to external clients under BGS Digital Data Licence terms and conditions. Revert to the IPR Section ( iprdigital@bgs.ac.uk ) if further advice is required with regard to permitted usage.
Responsible organization (s)
Contact for the resource
- Organisation name
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British Geological Survey
- Organisation name
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British Geological Survey
- Organisation name
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British Geological Survey
Metadata information
Contact for the metadata
- Organisation name
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British Geological Survey
- Date stamp
- 2024-05-03
- Metadata language
- English