Identification
- Title
- Peatlands of Wales
- Abstract
- <p>The Peatlands of Wales map series provides an updated distribution of Welsh Peatlands (to 2022) based on current evidence sources. The data layers were created on a 50m grid whereby the presence and thickness of peat are elucidated from a range of sources for each 50m grid cell across Wales. A peatland evidence score defines the level of confidence in the presence of peat in any given grid cell, with those cells scoring more than 2 on this scale of 1-10, captured in the ‘Peatlands of Wales’ peat distribution map.</p> <p>This dataset provides the distribution of peat across Wales, with peat defined as having a thickness of more than 40cm of organic material within the upper 80cm of a soil profile. It is an outline of all the 50m sites that have a peatland evidence score of 2 or greater (as provided in the ‘Peatlands of Wales evidence’ map layer).</p> <p>Full details of the sources of data used to build this map as well as the methodologies used to define the level of evidence for the <a href="https://datamap.gov.wales/layers/geonode:peatlands_of_wales_scg8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presence of peat </a>and derivation of the <a href="https://datamap.gov.wales/layers/geonode:peatlands_of_wales_evidence_2nss" target="_blank" rel="noopener">peat evidence score</a> as well as estimates of <a href="https://datamap.gov.wales/layers/geonode:peatlands_of_wales_thickness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">peat thickness (depth)</a>, <a href="https://datamap.gov.wales/layers/geonode:peatlands_of_wales_carbon_stock" target="_blank" rel="noopener">carbon stock estimates</a> and <a href="https://datamap.gov.wales/layers/geonode:peatlands_of_wales_emmisions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">greenhouse gas emissions</a> are presented in the <a href="https://gov.wales/soils-policy-evidence-programme" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peatlands of Wales mapping methodology report </a></p>
- Licence
- Open Government Licence for Public Sector Information (OGL)
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Copyright:
- Publication Date
- 04 April 2022
- Type
- Spatial data
- Keywords
- deunydd organig, mawm, organic matter, peat, pridd, soil
- Category:
- Environment
- Regions
- Global
- Approved
- Yes
- Published
- Yes
- Featured
- No
- Group
- Welsh Government
Information
- Spatial extent
- Projection system
- EPSG:27700
- Extension x0
- 180950.0
- Extension x1
- 352100.03125
- Extension y0
- 176000.0
- Extension y1
- 394350.03125
Features
- Restrictions
- <p>© Crown copyright. Mapping derived from soils data © Cranfield University (NSRI) and for the Controller of HMSO 2020 © Crown copyright 2020. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2020. Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and Database Right. Contains data from BGS © UKRI. All rights Reserved. </p>
- Edition
- 1
- Purpose
<p>This dataset provides the distribution of peat across Wales, with peat defined as having a thickness of more than 40cm of organic material within t…
- Data quality
- <p>Full details of the sources of data used to build this map as well as the methodologies used to define the level of evidence for the presence of peat and derivation of the peat evidence score as well as estimates of peat thickness (depth), carbon stock estimates and greenhouse gas emissions are presented in the <a href="https://gov.wales/soils-policy-evidence-programme" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peatlands of Wales mapping methodology report.</a></p>
- Supplemental information
<p>The national peatland map of Wales incorporates new relevant Soil Survey of England and Wales (SSEW) mapping evidence and other suitable peat mapping eviden…
- Spatial Representation Type
- Vector data is used to represent geographic data
Contact
- data@gov.wales
- Organisation
- Welsh Government
References
- Link online
- /layers/geonode:peatlands_of_wales_scg8
- Metadata page
- /layers/geonode:peatlands_of_wales_scg8/metadata_detail
- Zipped Shapefile
- Peatlands of Wales.zip
- OGC Geopackage
- Peatlands of Wales.gpkg
- DXF
- Peatlands of Wales.dxf
- GML 2.0
- Peatlands of Wales.gml
- GML 3.1.1
- Peatlands of Wales.gml
- CSV
- Peatlands of Wales.csv
- Excel
- Peatlands of Wales.excel
- GeoJSON
- Peatlands of Wales.json
- OGC WMS: geonode Service
- Geoservice OGC:WMS
- OGC WFS: geonode Service
- Geoservice OGC:WFS