All projects from the Index of Geographical Projects in Scotland http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/allrss2.pl Search Google http://www.google.no/search? q The State of Scotland's Seas Atlas (Scotland's Marine Atlas: Information for the National Marine Plan) was published in March 2011. The atlas is available in published form as well as on the Scottish Government website (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/04/03093608/0). The intention is to produce a report detailing the status of Scottish seas primarily through presentation of spatially related information (data if necessary / appropriate) and assessments (where assessment methodologies are available) using a series of maps which will combine into a State of Scotland???s Seas Atlas. This project is necessary to enable Marine Scotland and the wider community to; # develop our knowledge and understanding of the marine environment for some areas whilst extending it for others and so facilitating the measurement of progress with new marine policy. # measure progress towards delivery of the vision of clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse marine and coastal environment. # contribute towards the knowledge base required for marine planning. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=223 State of Scotlands Seas, Marine Planning, Spatial Planning ScotlandsPlaces is a web project, established in 2008, that allows the public to search data seamlessly from, initially, two of Scotland???s national collections, the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) and the National Archives of Scotland (NAS). The website demonstrates organisations working together to efficiently amalgamate and present geographic-based data to the public. ScotlandsPlaces (www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk) allows users to search by entering a place name or clicking on a map. The map search efficiently pulls archaeological and architectural results that are indexed by coordinates. ScotlandsPlaces uses a newly developed historical gazetteer service to disambiguate any entered place names. Middleware, based on CYGnus, (open source geo-middleware developed by the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh), then brokers the queries, sending them to the separate remotely hosted databases. The results are returned and displayed as a table in the website. Users can also download a KML file for plotting the results on a geobrowser. The significance of the project is its geographic focus and that it allows datasets to remain in the care of their home organisation. It demonstrates the ???capture once, use many??? notion of data provision. This allows organisations to provide a live, up-to-date feed from their database directly to the website via web services in the form of URL parameterised pairs. The ScotlandsPlaces website is designed to be extensible with simple joining rules. The site was formally launched in October 2009 by the Scottish Culture Minister, and welcomes additional partners from the Scottish cultural sector. 2010 will see the amalgamation of more national datasets into the site. Significantly, the ScotlandsPlaces project is in line to act as a testbed for the Scottish Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and is in line with the EU Inspire Directive both concerned with data-sharing and providing geographic-based data to the public. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=222 INSPIRE, Web Services, Gazetteer, KML Plotting, Shared Services, CYGnus The Scottish Government's Rural and Environment Research and Analysis Directorate (RERAD) is currently carrying out a Rural Land Use Study with the aim of bringing together an integrated evidence-base on the potential contributions of Scotland's rural land to delivering on the Scottish Government's purpose of sustainable economic growth. It also aims to help in addressing major policy challenges across government and the wider public sector, such as climate change, ensuring food and energy security, and meeting housing and infrastructure needs in response to changing demographics. As part of this study, the Scottish Government Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team (GI-SAT) has been commissioned to identify and evaluate existing spatial datasets which could be used to identify either land use or land use change. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=221 GLUD, land use, land cover, land use change This study,conducted on behalf of RCAHMS and the Local Authority Archaeologists of Scotland (ALGAO) and funded by Historic Scotland (HS), is exploring the quality of data, the current state of polygonisation and the IT capabilities of Sites and Monuments Records with the ambition of defining data standards for the depiction of area features within a GIS environment. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=220 European Landscape Convention, INSPIRE, Data standards, Polygons Despite widely acknowledged benefits offered by the formulation of Spatial Data Infrastructures little progress has been made in Scotland past the production of a national Geographical Information strategy paper. Unique difficulties exist within the Scottish environment which prevent the proven methodologies of implementation seen in the US, Canada or Wales being viable options. A new and innovative implementation of the policies and procedures introduced by the Scottish Geographical Information strategy is presented and implemented in this project in an effort to create a data delivery framework. This framework is founded upon the key tenets of scalability and standards compliance and presents an effective method of joining disparate information silos through the context of geographical location. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=219 Geographical Information, Spatial Data Infrastructure, KML, Data Delivery In 2006, a partnership between The University of Edinburgh, The Scottish Government and The Association of Geographic Information in Scotland lead to the production of an online service designed to encourage diffusion of knowledge across the Scottish GI community and beyond. The project, part of the 'One Scotland One Geography' initiative, aimed to create a service whereby metadata about projects could be shared in order to create synergies and reduce repetition across the GI community. The purpose of this project was to review and enhance a prototype Geographical Information Projects Registry (GIPR) to create a self-sustaining user-driven service. The resource exists as a database driven website which is accessed via the World Wide Web (WWW). The service can be found at www.gisprojects.net. The project aims to provide a more intelligent, user-driven website which requires little or no administration. The project aims to achieve this through highlighting synergies, using new methods to keep the database current and by providing alternative techniques of keeping users informed of new information obtained by the registry. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=218 Knowledge sharing, One Scotland One Geography, GIS, Geographical Information Projects Registry EGN will implement an interoperable internet service that will link and provide access to the official, multilingual geographical names data held at the national level across Europe. By that, EGN will make a major contribution to opening up public sector information within a wider European spatial (geographic) information infrastructure, and relates more specifically to the INSPIRE implementation rules. Work is ongoing until march 2009. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=217 gazzeteer,Europe,EU,econtentplus,WFS'sINSPIRE,OGC The Harmonised Monitoring Scheme for river water quality commenced in 1974. The Harmonised Monitoring Scheme is a national archive of water quality data aimed at providing information on information throughout the United Kingdom and satisfying certain international obligations, including the estimation of riverborne input of selected contaminants to the sea. The data are also used investigate long-term trends in main determinands. The sampling network including 230 sites, mainly located on major rivers at, or near, the tidal limit. In scotland there are 58 sites.Here you will be able to view each of the sites in Scotland and view the data that has been collected. You may also download the data in csv format. If you have any queries please contact us. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=216 River level data is collected at gauging stations using a variety of electronic sensors that measure the level of the water. In the majority of cases level is measured using a shaft encoder driven by a float and counterweight arrangement. Pressure sensors that translate water pressure into level are also used. Rapid fluctuations in water level due to surface waves are damped by placing the level sensor in a stilling well.The website updates 6 times during the day to allow for failed transmissions - data may therefore be briefly unavailable during these times. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=215 The bathing water season in Scotland is 1st June to mid September. This section demonstrates SEPA's commitment to providing comprehensive information on the quality of Scotland's bathing waters. As well as containing SEPA's Annual Bathing Water reports and regularly-updated monitoring results for identified and non-identified waters, the section contains information on new initiatives aimed at promoting better bathing water quality in Scotland. This is intended to inform discussion and raise awareness of the future management of Scotland's coastal and inland bathing waters. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=214 Modelled flood outlines based on 1%, 0.5% and 0.1% flood probability. Coverage for all fluvial catchments greater than 3km2, and coastal areas. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=213 The Directive establishes a new legal framework for the protection, improvement and sustainable use of surface waters, transitional waters, coastal waters and groundwater across Europe in order to:Prevent deterioration and enhance status of aquatic ecosystems, including groundwater;Promote sustainable water use;Reduce pollution; and Contribute to the mitigation of floods and droughts. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=212 The SPRI is a register of site specific emissions to air and water for a range of specific pollutants. The emissions are reported annually as a total emission figure for each site. Information about the individual pollutants, the sites that returned data and background information is available on this site.The site currently provides access to data gathered under the requirements of European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER) for the calendar year 2002 and under SPRI requirements for 2004. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=211 As part of the Definitive National Addressing for Scotland (DNAS) initiative, the fourteen assessors in Scotland have developed and delivered the Scottish Assessors's Portal. Since August 2004, there has been online access to the Valuation Roll and Council Tax information on a Scotland-wide basis. The Assessors's were also awarded additional financial support from the Scottish Executive MGF3 fund to continue with this work and ensure that it can contribute to Scotland's national information infrastructure. The future vision of the Assessors's Portal is to continue to provide high quality online services that deliver identified business benefits to the Assessors and other CustomerFirst stakeholders. This will encompass the following: (1) online transactional services that can handle single and bulk transactions between the Portal and citizens, property professionals and government agencies; (2) extended access to assessors's data at the Portal in the delivery of more comprehensive joined-up services as agreed with government agencies and other stakeholders; (3) enable a series of 'sBusiness Connectors's that will facilitate the exchange of data between the assessors and other data providers and users, including linkages between assessors and local authority Corporate Address Gazetteers; and (4) enhance the display, analysis and data exchange capabilities of Portal information with more consistent and comprehensive georeferencing identifiers. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=210 online access, non-domestic rates, valuation roll, council tax, DNAS, customerfirst, Scottish Assess DNA National Project http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=209 land, property, address, gazetteer, street http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=208 http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=207 http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=206 http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=205 http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=204 http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=203 http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=202 Evaluation of raster imagery storage methods and options http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=201 Imagery Provision of GI training for staff http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=200 training Replacement of the existing desktop GIS. Project is tied to the intranet GIS project. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=199 GIS; desktop Development and roll-out of a web-based GIS service on the SNH intranet. Service developed using ArcIMS. Provides access to key corporate datasets through an easy-to-use interface. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=198 Intranet; web GIS Support to users (particularly of desktop GIS, but also of web-based services) to allow them to use geographic information themselves. Covers the systems available to staff and also the data available through those systems. The provision of this service is reviewed on a monthly basis. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=197 Support Maintenance of core base data holding (PGA) http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=196 Data Evaluate and carry out PAI changes to OS MasterMap derived core datasets http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=195 Data; PAI Development of new methods for provsion of core datasets for distribution http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=194 Data ORACLE Migration http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=193 Data http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=192 HGDL; Historic; Garden Revised maps of SSSIs for new on-line register. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=191 SSSI http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=190 Designation; Natura; Data Capture http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=189 Designation; SSSI; Data Capture http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=188 Management Agreement; Datra capture http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=187 NNR Investigate opportunities for positive natural heritage enhancements works out of the mitigation scheme for the road. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=186 aberdeen Revise the Wild Land Search area boundaries using GIS analysis to incorporate additional criteria and up-to-date datasets. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=185 wild land Analysis of land under assured management http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=184 designations; management agreements Analysis in support of windfarm zones of sensitivity http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=183 win; windfarm Sensitivity modelling of lowland/upland/montane model. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=182 HAP; upland Investigate potential uses of CORINE data for assessing land cover change and habitats network analysis. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=181 CORINE, SEBI2010 Aim is to see whether the BEETLE methodology can be used for isolating red squirrel populations from grey. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=180 squirrel Joint project with Aberdeen Council. Classification of green space within Aberdeen utilising aerial photography and pre-classified OS MasterMap data. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=179 greenspace; urban green space Provision of spatial analysis in support of CandMNPs in Scotland http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=178 marine; coastal GIS analysis work looking at applicability of national data sources for use as indicators for monitoring landscape change and development pressures over time. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=177 indicators http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=176 PAI, OS Improving Access to Census Information for GIS. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=175 Census Aggregation Tool, Census Output Areas and Diverse Geographies, Spatial Analysis Integration with / of Corporate GIS http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=174 Uniform, WDM, CAMS, Orcale CRM, Swift, Pheonix, IHMS, MISC etc Web Mapping Services for Internet sites and Integration http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=173 OGC WMS, FVGIS WMS, WDM Geographic Information Portal for the 3 Councils http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=172 GeoLink, Intranet, Extranet, Web GIS, Data Catalogue, Data Management, Helpdesk, Training Spatial Data Warehouse for the 3 Councils http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=171 GeoStore, Oracle SDO, RAC, Cluster, SDE Creation, Maintenance, Quality Assurance, Integration and Exploitation of BS7666 CAG http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=170 Address Matching, BS7666, DNAS, Assessors, UniForm GMS, InfoShare, BOI Creation, Maintenance, Quality Assurance, Integration and Exploitation of BS7666 CAG http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=169 Address Matching, BS7666, DNAS, Assessors, UniForm GMS, InfoShare, BOI Creation, Maintenance, Quality Assurance, Integration and Exploitation of BS7666 CAG http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=168 Address Matching, BS7666, DNAS, Assessors, UniForm GMS, InfoShare, BOI Application for the definition and display of all types of Refuse Routes http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=167 Days, Routes, Vehicles, Missed Bins, CRM GIS for Countryside Management http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=166 CAMS, ROW, Land Reform Act, Mobile GIS, Data Management Assist the three Councils in creating and maintaining Risk Registers http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=165 Prioritised Sites, BGS, Babtie, Groundview, ArcGIS, Data Brokerage, Data Management, Security Publication, update and maintenance of Asbestos register for Council Property http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=164 Council Property, Inspections, Status Capture, Update Maintenance and Publishing of Council Assets http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=163 Street Lighting, Bridges, Culverts, Hakes, Screens, Flood Risk, Grounds Maintenance One stop shop for land and property information including Council Housing Stock http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=162 Legal Ownership, Housing Status, Capital Programme GeoLink for School Pupils http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=161 Cirriculum, Web GIS Schools Transport Enquiry Management System http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=160 Free Transport, Safe Routes to School, Pupil Placement Strategic Planning for woodlands http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=159 Audit, Classification, Accessibility Open Space Strategy http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=158 PAN 65, Open Space Analysis, Audit, Classification At Risk Registers, Matching with CAG http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=157 At Risk Registers, Child Protection, CAG Interactive Extranet Mapping and data http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=156 SVG, Development Sites, Monitoring, Tender Forth Valley Information Sharing Group http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=155 Publications Directory Provision of extranet GIS to support partnership working http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=154 Partnership Working, Extranet GIS, Anti Social Behaviour Service to meet ad-hoc requests that are not scoped as \"Projects\" http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=153 Ad-hoc Requests, Thematic Map Production, Spatial Analysis Comprehensive GIS Support Service http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=152 Helpdesk, Troubleshooting, Consultancy All aspects of GI related training http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=151 Formal Courses, Workshops, Seminars, and Bespoke Training Support for all aspects of Positional Accuracy Improvement http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=150 Impact Assessment, Audit, Training, Process Support GI Data Management Services http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=149 Processing, Quality Assurance, Publishing, Meta-data Development of an Integrated Management Plan (IMP) for a leisure and tourism destination on Loch Lomond. Spatial information was delivered in an interactive format creating a seamless link between spatial features and the text of the report. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=148 Resource Management, Interactive mapping, ArcReader, Planning, Loch Lomond There are around 1000 common grazings in the crofting counties. This project aims to locate and digitize the boundaries for all common grazings. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=147 crofting, grazings A crofter can apply to be granted the sole use of part of the Common Grazings in which they have a share. When an Apportionment Order is granted a map is produced showing the boundary. This project aims to digitize the boundaries of all apportionments that have been granted. Approximately 75,000 hectares of croft land are thought to be subject to apportionment orders. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=146 crofting, grazings, apportionment CensusAtlas demonstrates the use of visual, interactive graphics to disseminate census-based statistics. It is designed to be simple to use and incorporates data from the 2001 Census, released on 30th September 2002 at the level of local authorities. We are aware this application is being referenced, for example, by secondary school geography teachers. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=145 Scotland, Census, Atlas http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=144 greenspace, leisure centres, physical activity, perception of neighbourhood Use of field equipment to capture initial data. ArcGIS application to create assesments and formal sign off. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=143 Towpath Condition, Health and Safety To register all BW's property and land holdings in Scotland, and then to rectif y any anomolies in the boundary. This will give a definitive boundary to the BW estate in Scotland. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=142 Title Registration, Registers for Scotland, GIS, BW, Boundary http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=141 Web-based GIS, up-to-date, customer information e-delivery Provide department specific variations to the standard Strathclyde Police deskptop mapping application. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=140 Property, Planning, Mapping, Resource, Management, Traffic, Support, Policing Provide general user access to web browser based mapping applications, to allow location searching and display based on co-ordinates or address information. Allow overlay of selected value added datasets from the Force's GIS datastore. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=139 Intranert, web, browser, mapping Display details of incident and police resource information from the Force's Command and Control application via the Blue8/Northgate GIS application. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=138 Command, Control Customized GIS application for use by crime analysts which allows them to access corporate database resources via SQL and display the results in ArcGIS for further analysis. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=137 Crime, Analysis Master plan and strategic design guidance for the future urban expansion of Winchburgh. A GIS phasing/costing model of the proposed development was created to allow dynamic on-screen updates of development design features, phasing years, and costing alternatives as well as other variables that affect projects costs. The system allows for desktop experimentation with the financial and spatial impacts of any design changes. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=136 Masterplanning, Phasing, Planning, Visualisation, Website, Community Consultation Preparing a master plan and vision statement for the public realm within this study area. Following on, to then prioritise the first selection of projects and to design and implement them, ensuring that they set the benchmark for future phases of work. The capture and management of a range of GIS data sets has aided the analysis involved within the master planning process. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=135 Masterplanning, Belfast, Planning, Design, Visualisation Identify areas where organisations in the North East of Scotland can share data. Aberdeenshire Council hosts an extranet web site holding data about properties owned by Grampian Fire & Rescue, Grampian Police, NHS, The Moray Council and Aberdeenshire Council. This enables all the partners to view properties which they may be able to lease or share with the other partners. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=134 Data sharing, partnership, web-based GIS, repository, decision support tool, up-to-date Correct Aberdeenshire Council geographic data to align with resurveyed Ordnance Survey mapping. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=133 Part of the Scotland wide project to create a Corporate Address Gazetteer for Scotland. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=132 corporate addressing, up-to-date, data sharing Aberdeenshire Council hosts an extranet web site which enables the partners of NESFLAG to view flooding related data on an interactive map. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=131 Data sharing, partnership, web-based GIS, repository, decision support tool, up-to-date Project is creating an environment of centralised data holding and provision of widespread access to GIS and the associated data. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=130 Widepread access to GIS and data accross organsiation Greenspaces within towns and cities provide a range of public and environmental services that are an essential element of peoples quality of life. However, consistent and comprehensive geographic information on urban greenspace has yet to become available in Scotland. This makes it difficult to examine and quantify changes to the green environment in urban areas, and makes analysis of the relationships between greenspace and other social, economic and environmental datasets impossible. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and high resolution aerial photography can be combined to provide a detailed characterisation of greenspace in urban areas, opening up new possibilities for analysis. While Glasgow and the Clyde Valley has some of the best parks and open spaces in Scotland, some communities have limited access to good quality, local greenspace. The Glasgow and Clyde Valley Structure Plan includes a commitment to create a green network and Community Forest that runs from the heart of the city and other towns to remoter areas. It aims to develop this network for amenity, nature conservation, social and health benefits and to aid economic regeneration. Similarly SNH and FCS are making significant investment in improving the quality of the urban environment. This shared need stimulated the establishment of a partnership of the Glasgow and Clyde Valley Structure Plan Joint Committee (GCV), Forestry Commission Scotland (FCS) and Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) to map and characterise greenspace across Glasgow and the Clyde Valley. The project has developed a comprehensive GIS dataset of the green network characterized to a typology developed from Planning Advice Note 65. This workshop, organised jointly by GCV, FCS and SNH, will launch the greenspace dataset and demonstrate potential uses and applications of the dataset to all interested parties. We hope that this new information on the quantity, character, spatial distribution and accessibility of the greenspace resource will provide essential baseline information for the further development of strategies for its improvement. The dataset will also allow information on greenspace to be linked to other social and environmental datasets to help ensure that action to improve greenspace in integrated into other strategic priorities. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=129 urban greespace, green network, PAN65, Images for All - Making the Collections Work is a two year project which aims to improve access to the collections of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. The main activities of the project are: - Implementing an ongoing repair and conservation programme - Cataloguing all items in the collections - Making catalogues freely available via the project website - Scanning one hundred gems selected from throughout the collections and creating an image gallery - Promoting the collections to a diverse public The project is funded for two years until August 2007 by the Heritage Lottery Fund, and has two full time staff and a Project Management Group. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=128 Scotland, Scottish, maps, images, archives, catalogue, slides, travellers, Aim of project is to aid local authority in transferring housing stock records succesfully to Land Register on completion of transfer to local housing associations. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=127 Large Scale Voluntary Transfers, LSVT, Local Authority, Land Register, Council House Transfer Aim of project to register all Roads department interests in land in the Land Register http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=126 Scottish Executive, Dept of Transport, Asset Registration,Land Register,Voluntary Registration Price Project maintains average house price statisitics for residential properties in Scotland. Every quarter a press release detailing average prices in each local authority area in Scotland is published. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=125 Land Register, House Prices, Land and Property, Average Prices, Registers of Scotland The enacting of Abolition of Feudal Tenure Act 2000 abolished feudal relationships between superior and vassals for all time on the Appointed Day (28 November 2004). All existing superiorities are abolished. No new feudal relationships will be permitted in future. Feudal burdens disappear unless they are preserved. As part of this process The Keeper will examine every legacy case and update each title as part of a rolling programme to remove inappropriate entries. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=124 Feudal Abolition, Land Tenure Reform (Scotland) Act 1974, Land Register, Registers of Scotland This project has the aim of extending the area of Scotland's Land mass covered by Land Register Titles. Further to this main aim is the investigation of the effect voluntary registration of large land owners would have on these figures. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=123 Land Mass, Land Register, Title Coverage, Registered Titles, Registers of Scotland The Ordnance Survey (OS) is currently undertaking a national PAI programme. This will allow the capture of data at 1/2500 scale to a greater absolute accuracy resulting in an improved and more consistent standard of mapping for rural areas. It will affect a significant proportion of 1:2500 Landline maps throughout Scotland. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=122 PAI, Positional Accuracy Improvement, Ordnance Survey, Small Scale Mapping, Rural Towns The Register of Sasines is a register of deeds relating to transactions over property and recorded in chronological order. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=121 Property transactions The ongoing completion of Land Register mapping coverage based on large scale mapping. Electronic mapbase providing the means to capture, maintain and search graphical extents for each registered interest held on the Land Register.Index Map search of all titles currently on the Land Register. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=120 The Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 created a map based system guaranteed by the state. Searchable by name, property address or by Index Map. The Land Register is progressively replacing the Sasine Register as each property interest is transacted on for a financial consideration. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=119 Extension on Intranet Atlas for City Development to all City of Edinburgh including migration to external dedicated server. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=118 ArcIMS Atlas Intranet Creation of a robust central repository for CEC based on ArcGIS Server Enterprise Standard and SQLServer in replacement of current Unform-extended ArcSDE repository http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=117 ArcGIS Server ArcSDE Creation of an ArcIMS based local plan browsing tool. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=116 Local Plans, Internet, ArcIMS http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=115 Flooding, Mapping PASTMAP is an interactive mapping service which offers a single point of entry into five major databases covering the built environment in Scotland. Using PASTMAP you can: Search for information on over 260,000 architectural, archaeological, industrial and maritime sites throughout Scotland using Canmore, the RCAHMS database of Scotland???s Places Obtain listing information on more than 46,000 buildings throughout Scotland which have been granted listed building protection by Historic Scotland Access details on the 8,000 Ancient Monuments in Scotland whose importance has been recognised by being granted ???Scheduled Ancient Monument??? status by Historic Scotland. Investigate Historic Environment Records prepared by the 17 Local Authorities throughout Scotland who currently participate in recording the historic environment at a local level. Discover details of gardens or designed landscapes throughout Scotland which have received recognition and a degree of protection through the planning system from Historic Scotland. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=114 Historic Environment Pilot project to digitise all decrofted areas on Skye. To evaluate the approach and usefulness of the resulting data to the Crofters Commission. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=113 crofting, decrofting An application that allows search and retrieval of Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch to the mile maps of Scotland. The original map sheets can be selected through a web-mapping interfance and zoomable images of the original maps viewed. The web-mapping interface also allows a cropped, georeferenced layer of six-inch mapping to be displayed and viewed. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=112 Historical maps, Ordnance Survey, Georeferenced maps An application that illustrates web-mapping search methods to retrieve geo-referenced records for all Ordnance Survey National Grid paper maps for Scotland at 1:2,500 and 1:1,250 scales. Although the OS maps themselves are not viewable, this project makes essential map details available remotely for the first time. These include 45,000 records for sheet maps, surveyed between 1944 and 1991, in the National Library of Scotland's collections. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=111 Historical maps, Ordnance Survey, Georeferenced polygons Geo-referenced records for digital images relating to the Bathymetrical Survey of the Freshwater Lochs of Scotland, 1897-1909 can be found using this web-mapping pilot application. The application includes 562 loch locations, shown as blue dots on the map, with records and zoomable map images from the original Bathymetrical Survey charts for each loch. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=110 Historical maps, georeferencing, Scottish lochs Web access to NLS map collections. In our 'Maps of Scotland' resource you can access and view over 8,000 maps as high-resolution, colour, zoomable images. The maps date between 1560 and 1935 and we have grouped them into several categories: Maps of Scotland, 1560-1928; County Maps, 1580-1928; Town Plans, 1580-1919; Coastal Charts, 1580-1850; Military Maps, 18th century; Bathymetrical Survey of the Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland, 1897-1909; Series Maps, including Ordnance Survey maps; Estate Maps http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=109 historical maps, county maps, town plans, coastal charts, series maps, estate plans Dissemination of 2001 Census results on the web, including map depiction http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=108 census 2001 The scope of the project is to provide services to cover design, development, testing and implementation of an ArcGIS based application to deliver the basic functionality of the GROS Postcode Geography system. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=107 Postcode, geography, system http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=106 GIS, Emergency Planning, Emergency Management, Professional representative and development body http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=105 GIS, Integrated Emergency Management, Doctrine Development Founded in 1884, the RSGS is an educational charity the aims of which are to advance the science of Geography and create a greater understanding of the wider world, in the belief that geographical knowledge makes a significant difference to the way in which we view and shape the world we live in. These aims are pursued largely through: - 1. support for geographical research and the teaching of geography; 2. a community programme of nearly 100 illustrated talks throughout Scotland for both the Society's members and the wider public; 3. the publication of a journal, newsletter, and occasional books and pamphlets on geographical issues; and 4. the provision of a geographical information service drawing on the Society's extensive collections of books, journals, maps, photographs, and archives. The Society, which has a membership of about 2,500, maintains four permanent staff, with the current addition of two fixed-term (2005-2007) Heritage-Lottery-funded project-workers, at its headquarters in Glasgow. Policy decisions are made by the RSGS Council, which represents a wide range of educational/geographical interests. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=104 geography, research, teaching, society, professional The NAEI provides defra and the DAs with consistent UK level emissions data for air quality pollutants. The data provide time trend information (1970 - 2004) and spatially disaggregated (to 1x1km) information for 500 pollutants. The data are compiled from a large number of different statistical, industrial, regulatory and scientific sources and brings together emissions from all the different anthropogenic sectors in the UK including transport, industry, agriculture and domestic activities. Data are available as statistics and as GIS emission maps. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=103 air quality, emissions, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, particles The GHGI provides defra and the DAs with consistent UK level emissions data for greenhouse gases. The inventory data are compiled from a large number of different statistical, industrial, regulatory and scientific sources and brings together emissions from all the different anthropogenic sectors in the UK including transport, industry, agriculture and domestic activities. The data form the core information reported by the UK to meet its Kyoto and European Union reporting commitments. Data are available as statistics and as GIS emission maps. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=102 greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, climate change, emission inventory Dispersion modelling of air pollution from traffic and domestic sources. Output provided in GIS format using Arcview and OS landline data. This is an example of several similar projects undertaken for different Local Authorities http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=101 air quality, detailed assessment, dispersion modelling This project will pilot an air quality database for Scotland by collating and ratifying data from a variety of specified sources and, in addition, trial the use of a Web logger for 6 local authorities. Options for website design will be provided along with tools to allow easy access to air quality data for Scotland for a wide range of potential users. The contractor is required to liaise with potential stakeholders to gain their views on what there needs are from such a database. An evaluation will be undertaken to assess all the air quality data collated in Scotland and the quality and compatibility of these data. Using more regional level background data, improved mapping of air quality across Scotland will be developed. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=100 air quality, Scotland, GIS mapping Netcen is currently contracted to Defra to provide air quality statistics for the ONS Neighbourhood Statistics website (neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk) and the Scottish National Statistics website (www.sns.gov.uk). The data are compiled at Super Output Area level from the detailed 1km resolution maps of atmospheric emissions and modelled ambient air quality which have been developed by Netcen for Defra. Data are provided for the following pollutants: PM10, NOx, SO2, Benzene and Ozone. The data sets for the website will be updated each year until 2006. A new dataset of Air Quality Management Area (AQMA) boundaries has also been compiled as part of this project. Data has been obtained from Local Authorities, made into a consistent format and compiled into a single dataset.This contract also includes provision of policy support to DEFRA exploring the relationship between social deprivation and air quality across the UK and also in case study areas: specific cities, within AQMA boundaries and close to large emission sources. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=99 Air Quality, Scottish National Statistics, social deprivation http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Environment/SustainableDevelopment/bgs http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=98 geodiversity, geology, landforms, soil, biodiversity http://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/data/britpits/home.html http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=97 active, inactive, closed, mines, quarries, mineral planning authorities, mineral commodities, end-use http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=96 scanning, raster, borehole logs http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=95 scanning, raster, OS, historic maps http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=94 scanning, raster, geological maps, geologist field maps http://www.bgs.ac.uk/products/digbath250/ http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=93 digital bathymetry, sea bed, marine http://www.bgs.ac.uk/products/digitalmaps/digsbs250.html http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=92 sea bed sediments, sea bed samples, sea bed geology, geophysics, geotechnics http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=91 lithostratigraphy, lithology, sedimentology, palaeontology http://www.bgs.ac.uk/gbase/objective.html http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=90 geochemistry, environment, soil, sediment, water http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=89 radon potential, potentially harmful elements, arsenic, chromium, nickel Most non-coal abandonment plans held by BGS for Scotland have been scanned. Pilot hazard mapping using GIS is being piloted on underground extraction of chalk so is focused on SE England but will be moving to other commodities including metallic ores over the next year or so http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=88 non-coal mining ground stability hazards, non-coal scanned mine plans To develop and deliver national digital models of superfical thickness http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=87 Superficial deposits, thickness, rockhead http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=86 Groundwater, aquifer, vulnerability, productivity http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=85 groundwater, aquifer, groundwater flooding, permeability, hydraulic conductivity http://www.bgs.ac.uk/products/geosure/home.html http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=84 Landslides, souluble rocks, shrink-swell, running sands, collapsible rocks, compressible ground http://www.bgs.ac.uk/products/digitalmaps/infonotes.html http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=83 digital geology, bedrock, superficial deposits, mass movement deposits, artificial deposits see http://www.sniffer.org.uk/rise/results_detailed.asp?id=33 http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=82 Flooding EuroGlobalMap v 1.1 is a seamless digital map dataset for Europe at a scale of 1:1000000 provided by EuroGeographics, an organization which represents nearly all of Europes national mapping agencies. EuroGlobalMap is part of a wider global initiative known as GlobalMap run by the International Steering Committee for Global Mapping (ISCGM). The GlobalMap project was proposed by the Ministry of Construction of Japan as a response of the global mapping community to Agenda 21 adopted at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=81 geospatial interoperability,INSPIRE,data harmonisation, cross-boundary,European EDINA worked with the Joint Information Systems Committee to establish the solution for providing Ordnance Survey MasterMap data through the EDINA Digimap service. OS MasterMap is a more complex data product and is structurally very different from the Ordnance Survey data currently provided, so delivering it required considerable investment and development work. EDINA undertook an 18 month project to develop a delivery mechanism for OS MasterMap Topographic and Integrated Transport Network (ITN) layers. Oracle Spatial was used as the database with Snowflake's Go-Publisher (WFS) used to handle requests for data and its delivery in OS MM GML schema. An online ordering mechanism was built by EDINA to manage interactions with users. COUs are loaded into the database ever 8 weeks but released to the community bi-annually. All changes are kept so that the database becomes an historical record of changes. In the future users will be able to request an historic snapshot of MM data as well as current data. The MM data supply facility is currently averaging 12,000 orders per month. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=80 OS MasterMap, cartography, download,data http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=79 geospatial metadata,ISO 19115,discovery, OGC The European Union funded project MOTIIVE , to run from February 2005 to February 2007, explores operational aspects of land-sea data harmonisation and integration across disciplines and national borders in Europe. MOTIIVE will exploit the work already completed in regard to marine metadata (MarineXML) and related marine/coastal ontology development and interoperability technology, producing tools and methodologies. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=78 marine,geospatial interoperability,INSPIRE,data harmonisation, OGC, ISO, catalogue The GRADE (Geospatial Repository for Academic Deposit and Extraction)project, a JISC-funded initiative, led by EDINA, investigated and reported on the technical and cultural issues surrounding the reuse of geospatial data within the JISC Information Environment in the context of media-centric, informal and institutional repositories. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=77 geospatial repository, data sharing, derived data, licencing, copyright, European Database Directive GeoCrossWalk is JISC funded middleware implementing a digital gazetteer service and server for the UK academic Higher and Further Education community. The rationale behind the service is that there is currently no unified entry point to assist in geographic searching within the existing academic network as each information provider/service adopts different geographic coding conventions (some use postcodes, others placenames, some grid references etc.). GeoCrossWalk is designed to make geographic searching transparent by 'crosswalking' these different geographies. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=76 digital gazetteer,middleware, geoparser Go-Geo! is a tool designed to help you find details about geo-spatial datasets and related resources within Great Britain tertiary education and beyond. This is a trial service for the academic community. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=75 spatial metadata, discovery,resources, OGC, catalogue The Agricultural Census is conducted in June each year by the government departments dealing with Agriculture and Rural Affairs for Scotland, England, and Wales (i.e. SEERAD, DEFRA and the Welsh Assembly Government Department for Environment, Planning and Countryside ). Each farmer declares the agricultural activity on the land via a postal questionnaire. The respective government departments collect the 150 items of data and publish information relating to farm holdings for recognised geographies. Edinburgh University Data Library has developed algorithms which convert the data for recognised geographies, obtained from the government departments, into grid square estimates. The key to transforming the raw data into grid square data is the definition of each geography (e.g. parish, in the case of Scotland) in terms of 1km squares. This Framework is used in conjunction with a 7-fold classification of the land-use of the same 1km grid squares, the Landuse Framework. Agricultural Census items are distributed over those 1km grid squares with the land use category suitable for the census item in question. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=74 agricultural census, grid squares,data download UKBORDERS provides digitised boundary datasets of the UK, available in many Geographic Information System (GIS) formats (MapInfo MIF/MID, ArcView Shape, Arc/Info Export and several others), for teachers and researchers in the UK Higher and Further Education community to download and use in their work. Postcode directories and lookup tables are also available. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=73 digtal boundaries,download,data,postcode directories Digimap is an EDINA service that delivers maps and map data of Great Britain to UK tertiary education. Data is available either to download to use with appropriate application software such as GIS or CAD, or as maps generated by Digimap online. There are four data collections available, Ordnance Survey GB products (inc MasterMap), historic maps from Landmark, geology data from the British Geological Survey and Marine data from Seazone. Each collection requires a separate institutional subscription. Once subscribed access is free at the point of use. Digimap has some 50,000 registered users and averages some 30,000 user sessions per month. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=72 OS maps, cartography, download, data, geology, marine, hydrographic, historic maps Provide electronic access to planning information in a clear, easy to use way. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=71 Development Management, Building Standards, Local Development Plan, Development Plan, constraints The creation, implementation and management of an asset management system covering all aspects of Public Space http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=70 roads, highways, street, asset management, parks, open space The creation, implementation and management of a BS7666 compliant, land, property and street gazetteer for the PandK area. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=69 land, property, address, gazetteer, street, BS7666 http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=68 Remote sensing, GIS, LiDar, CASI, Landslide, Flood. Management system for woodland grants, including geographic analysis of forestry locations http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=67 Donation of a free Explorer map to each Primary 7 pupil in Scotland http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=66 schools, maps, education Creation and maintenance of detailed national datasets for a range of purposes. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=65 geographic data, topography, address data, imagery, transport network To enable and support easy and reliable integration of business and geographic information regardless of who is responsible for its maintenance and where this is undertaken, thus achieving the goal of 'splug and play information's. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=64 Definitive, inclusive, structured, reliable, cost-effective, flexible The purpose of FEGIS is to provide users with a tool to analyse statistical information about further education in a geographical context. The student information that is presented is based on the further education statistics (FES) that are returned to the Funding Council by all the colleges that it funds. The system superimposes the FES data onto an ordnance survey digital map, containing meridian and boundary data. Users can explore and analyse specific data within the geographic area/s of their choice. The site also has census data which provides statistics on population, age, gender profiles and so on. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=63 FEGIS http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=62 woodland inventory http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=61 native woodland, woodland inventory http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=60 grant aid, forestry http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=59 forestry, forest management, forest inventory We are currently in the process of defining a automatic classification of housing property within Scotland. This is being accomplished using a variety of methods. At present we have defined and classified housing according to one of seven categories; detached, semi-detached,villa,terraced,flats,non-residential and non-residential/residential mix. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=58 House Types, House Classification, Property Types, Land Register, Registers of Scotland http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=57 wind energy http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=56 wind energy http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=55 wind energy http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=54 wind energy http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=53 wind energy http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=52 wind energy Local residents have a poor recognition of the existence of the NCHT (North Calder Heritage Trail). This link is making access easier and reducing anti-social use of the greenspace by trail bikes, quads and for fly-tipping. Local people expressed their support for the project through consultations in 2004. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=51 Greenspace Drumbowie Park is a large (28.5ha) community woodland adjacent to the village of Standburn which lies to the south-east of Falkirk. The site was previously used as rough grazing and for mining. Operations ceased in 1955 leaving as its legacy a derelict railway, two ponds, several mine shafts, brick enclosurses and two large bings. The site was identified by CSFT in 1992 as having potential for nature conservation and community use. Due to the poor grazing value of the land, the owner suggested some form of village park or community woodland, with a view to future management by the community. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=50 Greenspace Landscaping works designed to substantially enhance the setting of new commercial premises over and above that conditioned in the planning consent for the site. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=49 Greenspace Building on the success of CANMAP in Scotland and Coflein in Wales, RCAHMS is developing a web-GIS application to present information from the collections of the National Museums of Wales. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=48 Archaeology, Society In 2003, the Royal Commissions of Scotland and Wales entered into a partnership agreement to develop a Shared Web Information Systems for Heritage (SWISH) supported by the National Assembly of Wales. RCAHMS maintains and develops an oracle database, delivered over the Internet, for its Welsh colleagues. Additionally a web-browser, Coflein (memory online in Welsh), adopting CANMAP functionality, was built to display their information spatially. Both services are maintained by RCAHMS in Edinburgh and accessed from RCAHMW offices in Aberystwyth via the Internet.Coflein is the online database for the National Monuments Record of Wales (NMRW) - the national collection of information about the historic environment of Wales. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=47 Archaeology, Architecture, Industrial Archaeology, Society, Historic Environment RCAHMS GIS and Oracle database systems are being brought together in a J2EE environment. Streamlining the dynamic, server side applications within J2EE together with a common static client side application in HTML will improve the functionality of RCAHMS web-GIS applications, and deliver enhanced services to the public including a seamless interface combining the attribute searches of CANMORE with the spatial qualities of the web-map. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=46 GIS infrastructure In 2005 RCAHMS installed SDE to manage the increasing volumes of spatial data the organisation curates. Spatial data is gradually being migrated into SDE during the course of 2006 and 2007. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=45 GIS infrastructure RCAHMS is developing an application to display Roman sites in the RCAHMS database in a map-based web system to coincide with the nomination for the World Heritage Status for the Antonine Wall. This is part of a pilot project on Roman Frontiers, a pan-European initiative, in which the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is co-ordinating the technical aspects of the work. In Scotland, the project is being funded and led by Historic Scotland. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=44 Archaeology, World heritage In partnership with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales and English Heritage and the Ordnance Survey (OS), RCAHMS developed an ArcIms-based version of the OS Ancient Britain Map (published in 2005) to demonstrate the potential of linking heritage information from three separate databases within a single spatial environment. Selected data, corresponding to the sites published on the paper version of the map, was extracted from each of the national databases in Shape file format and harmonised to create a single spatial index covering Wales, Scotland and England within the ArcIms application. Users were able to move seamlessly from Scotland through England to Wales exploring the principal sites of each country against a map background and through hyperlinks, view associated information from the contributing organisations own web-based databases. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=43 Archaeology, Heritage Whilst the RCAHMS holds information about the archaeological and built heritage of Scotland (presented through the Canmore mapping service (Canmap) and Pastmap), the data it gathers is collected through individual fieldwork projects, undertaken by either the public or private sectors. Eventmap is being developed, in the first instance, to record spatial information about fieldwork projects undertaken by RCAHMS and partner organisations. Eventmap will present data from the RCAHMS field survey mapping and aerial photographic transcription programmes, and projects at Inveresk, and along the Antonine Wall. Additional content will be developed through digital material deposited in the RCAHMS collections and delivered through the OASIS application. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=42 Archaeology OASIS (Online Access to the Index of Archaeological Investigations) is a web-application, originally developed by the Archaeology Data Service at the University of York in partnership with English Heritage to help the flow of information from archaeological fieldwork undertaken by private consultants and contracting archaeological units to the relevant local and national data curators and archives. RCAHMS has taken the lead role in rolling out the application across Scotland. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=41 Archaeology Functionality of the existing AirPhotoFinder application will be developed to include hyperlinks enabling users to view low resolution images of digital photographs. The search tools will be improved to enable users to create user defined polygons to service often irregular and complex searches. Improved searching across the datasets will be introduced to enable users to select photographs taken in a particular month, season or year(s). http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=40 Environment, Aerial Photography, Imagery AirPhotoFinder is an application hosted by RCAHMS to help users locate and order vertical aerial photography in Scotland. Contained within AirPhotoFinder are details of flight plots and individual photograph centre points which illustrate where there is vertical aerial photographic coverage. There are also indexes to selected aspect of the RCAHMS oblique aerial photography holdings. The service also hosts index maps to the vertical aerial photographic collection for the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=39 Environment, Aerial Photography, Imagery HLAMAP provides access to information gathered by the Historic Land-use Assessment Project (HLA), a joint project with Historic Scotland. The HLA project is creating a digital map of the historic landscape of Scotland and through HLAMAP it is possible to view land-use by category, type, period or relict period. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=38 Archaeology, Historic Environment, Designed Landscapes, Historic Gardens Following the success of Pastmap, in November 2005, the service was extended to host information from local authority archaeology Sites and Monuments Records with the West of Scotland Archaeology Service, Highland Council and Aberdeenshire Council (including the Sites and Monument Records for Angus and Moary) covering about 58 percent of the Scottish landmass. As with the original development, users are able to view additional information about selected records from the respective website of the contributing authority. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=37 Architecture, Archaeology, built heritage, Society, historic environment, Industrial Archaeology, Maritime Archaeology, Listed buildings, Scheduled Ancient Monuments, Designed Landscapes, Historic Gar Launched in 2004, the original Pastmap application brought together information from the RCAHMS database and the statutory information (scheduled ancient monuments and Listed buildings) held by Historic Scotland in a single spatial web application. Historic Scotland and Scottish Natural Heritage subsequently added Historic Gardens and Designed Landscapes extents to the service in Autumn 2004. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=36 Architecture, Archaeology, built heritage, Society, historic environment, Industrial Archaeology, Maritime Archaeology, Listed buildings, Scheduled Ancient Monuments, Designed Landscapes, Historic Gar Launched in June 2002, the Canmore mapping service is a map-enabled system to search information on Scotlands's rich archaeological and architectural heritage held in the RCAHMS database (Canmore). http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=35 Architecture, Archaeology, built heritage, Society, historic environment, Industrial Archaeology, Maritime Archaeology. Integration of data from Planning and Environmental Services departments into a single system. This will enable planning officers to evaluate all development constraints that relate to a site regardless of their origin. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=34 Planning New business process for issuing Property Enquiry Certificates. A largely GIS based solution is envisaged which will provide a faster turnaround time and fewer man hours than the current systems. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=33 Property Investigation of Council services where mobile GIS could be utilised. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=32 Mobile, Field Collaborative European project that is investigating flooding in the urban environment. Outcomes will include revised guidance to developers and recommendataions on flood alleviation and remediation. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=31 Flooding, Europe, urban, waste water Integrating GIS into all aspects of the Council's customer relations. Provision of GIS tools to Contact Centre Staff, integration with CRM system and analysis of customer related data. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=30 CRM, Integration Integrating and embedding the Council's LLPG into back-office systems. Establishing the LLPG as the single authorative source of address data. Making data in back-office systems available in GIS http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=29 Gazetteer, BS7666, backoffice, integration Ongoing development and enhancement of Renfrewshire Council's Intranet GIS - RenfoMap. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=28 Intranet To have linked interactive mapping content for every location mentioned on the Renfrewshire community portal http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=27 Location, website, interactive http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=26 Energy budgets, Water Temperature http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=25 Cod, Tagging, Home Ranges http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=24 Salmon, Fishing, Beats, Catch Statistics http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=23 Salmon, Conservation Limits http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=22 Environment http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=21 Windfarms http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=20 Housing, Land, Supply Development and population of Spatial database to hold all Corportate spatial data sets http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=19 ArSDE, Oracle The Building Standards On-line Register is an interactive applications register designed to meet the requirements of Section 24 of the Building (Scotland) Act 2003. This requires local authorities to keep a Building Standards Register for the geographical area of the authority containing information on: applications for warrants and amendments to warrants; decisions on the applications; submissions of completion certificates; decisions on acceptance or rejection. The register is kept in 2 parts with a requirement for Part 1 to be available on-line. In addition to the information noted above Part 1 also contains information relating to certificates from approved certifiers of design or construction submitted with warrants and completion certificates, any conditions relating to grants of warrants, any enforcement notices when issued, altered or withdrawn and any continuing requirements imposed. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=18 Section 24 of the Building (Scotland) Act 2003 Development of external web site using ESRI ArcIMS technology and development of internal web site using same technology http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=17 ArcIMS, property locator The National Gazetteer (which was formerly known as DNA-Scotland until the name was changed to avoid confusion) has been in creation since May 2003 and brings together Corporate Address Gazetteers created by all 32 councils in Scotland into one consistent gazetteer. All CAGs are maintained to agreed standards and conventions to ensure that the national gazetteer is consistent across Scotland. Local Government is the source of the vast majority of change intelligence about property through its statutory functions such as Planning, Building Control and Street Naming and Numbering and as such are the natural custodians of this valuable dataset. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=16 National Gazetteer, BS 7666, Improvement Service, GI Strategy - One Scotland, One Geography http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=15 Internet, OpenSource http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=14 Intranet, MapGuide http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=13 Intranet, MapGuide http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=12 WMS, WFS, WCS http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=11 PAI, OS, Quality Improvement, Data Audit http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=10 http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=9 GIS, Mapping Web Enabling GIS Mapping Systems including Census Analysis Tool http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=8 GIS Census Mapping Systems, Census Includes Digital Mapping with layers for Planning Applications, Development Plans, Constraints Data, Socio Economic Analysis http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=7 Digital Mapping, Planning Applications, Development Plans, Constraints Data, Socio Economic Analysis Effective sustainable development, particularly for remote, dispersed populated rural areas, requires a wider joined-up approach to policy making at all levels of government. Policy making should also be based on evidence. This approach is encouraged by the "European Spatial Development Perspective", an influential EU document published in 1999, and this approach is now being integrated into Scottish National Planning Policy. General Aims: The SpatialNorth project helped develop best practice for the analysis and application of evidence contributing to effective joined-up policy making, primarily focusing on; 1) Environmental, social or economic spatial data on maps within Geographical Information Systems (GIS), for example maps indicating vegetation types, transport routes or levels of employment. These can also be modelled to show trends over time and alternative scenarios for different policy choices. 2) Participation of stakeholders, for example through workshops, consultation events or questionnaires. Stakeholders may include all public sector, private sector and voluntary organisations, as well as the general public, who have a vested interest in, or an element of expertise in, the policy area. To enable more specific assessment of policy making and spatial data use and management, 3) Evaluation of "test areas" or case studies of current strategic plan making. SpatialNorth observed and questioned policy-making teams and stakeholders in each test area, evaluating the methods used to coordinate priorities and share and manage information. The 3 test areas are: 1. Sutherland Local Plan; 2. Wester Ross Coastal Project; 3. Argyll and Bute Transport Strategy; The assessments, evaluations and recommendations have (to some degree): contributed to 2007-2013 Structural Funds project programming; informed the review of the National Planning Framework for Scotland; highlighted policy alignment and hierarchy; established a Highlands and Islands GIS network; provided policy-makers and spatial data users with best practice guidelines. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=6 Spatial planning, spatial data, GIS, policy, policy development, participatory approaches, transport, connectivity, biodiversity, landscape, water, waste Development and Implementation of GIS Strategy for Dundee City Council http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=5 Strategy, customer first, modernising, efficient government, CAG, Citizen Account A database of all rural sports facilities in Scotland. Contains information on equestrian centres, diving centres, anling areas. Progressively updates since the 1970's. Information referenced to a 6 figure OS grid refence. 3600 records http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=4 Countryside Sports Database A database of all urban sports facilities in Scotland. Contains information on sports halls, swimming pools, sports pitches, tennis courts, etc. Progressively updated since the 1970's. Information referenced to a 6 figure OS grid reference. 6500 records http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=3 sports, pools, halls, pitches The project aims to compile the first fully comprehensive register of Scottish charities, gathering details on operations, location and geographical spread. The information gathered is to be publicly availble via the OSCR website. The maintenance of the Register will become a statutory duty for OSCR in April 2006, when section 3 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act comes into force. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=2 charity, charitable, charities, voluntary, volunteer The Gazetteer for Scotland is a project to build a definitive descriptive geography of Scotland. It comprises a vast web-enabled database, featuring details of towns, villages, bens and glens from the Scottish Borders to the Northern Isles. The Gazetteer for Scotland represents the first comprehensive gazetteer produced for Scotland since 1885, it includes tourist attractions, industries and historical sites, together with histories of family names and biographies of famous people associated with Scotland. The network of connections between all of these entries make this gazetteer unique. It comprises around 17,000 individual records and more than a million words of contemporary description. Closely associated is a further c.7600 records, comprising 2.25 million words of historical description drawn from the Ordnance Gazetteer for Scotland (Francis Groome, 1882-5). The compilation of the Gazetteer of Scotland is an ongoing process, with at least another 10,000 candidate entries identified but not yet fully completed. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/explore.pl?seq=1 Long Form Gazetteer, Text Gazetteer, Place Names, Descriptive Gazetteer