A selection of the most recent projects added to the Geographical Information Projects Registry which have a defined spatial extent. To see the geographical extent of the projects listed, click a project title. For more information on a specific project, click the hyperlink below the title. http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/georss.pl For more information on this project, click here
]]>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://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/georss.pl 54.44449 3.82324 54.44449 -17.70996 61.12202 -17.70996 61.12202 3.82324 54.44449 3.82324 For more information on this project, click here
]]>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://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/georss.pl 54.08517 -.08789 54.08517 -8.17383 61.29135 -8.17383 61.29135 -.08789 54.08517 -.08789 For more information on this project, click here
]]>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://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~gipr/cgi_bin/georss.pl 54.69923 -.21973 54.69923 -7.64648 61.05829 -7.64648 61.05829 -.21973 54.69923 -.21973