The Welsh Information for Nature Bases Solution or WINS Project (previously known as SCCAN), showed a range of national opportunities to manage natural resources more sustainably in the SoNaRR report. This current phase has looked at a more local level to provide input to the Area Statement process. The result is a comprehensive map atlas of opportunity, demand and constraint maps, with accompanying spatial data, to facilitate broad, cross-sectorial discussions on sustainable management of natural resources (SMNR).

SCCAN aims to promote more holistic management of natural resources through spatial mapping of opportunity areas for land management interventions. The mapping focusses on priorities of the Welsh Government Natural Resources Policy (2017) arising from the Environment (Wales) Act (2016), which puts an emphasis on taking a place-based approach and delivering nature-based solutions.

The five policy themes considered by the project: Ecological Resilience and Connectivity; Marine and Freshwater Water Quality; Natural Flood Management; Woodland Planting (for various objectives); Urban and Peri-Urban Green Infrastructure.

Since 1987, the University of Delaware has prepared GIS-based Water Resource Protection Area (WRPA) mapping for New Castle County that serves to protect the quality and quantity of ground and surface water supplies as part of the Unified Development Code (UDC). The WRPA program is enabled under Section 10 (Environmental Standards) of the UDC for New Castle County. The intent of the ordinances is to protect the quality and quantity of surface water and groundwater supplies through the protection of environmentally sensitive areas important to the state’s water supply. Under the UDC, all development within recharge, wellhead, Cockeysville formation, and reservoir water resource protection areas are required to meet maximum impervious cover thresholds (20–50%) and may require groundwater recharge facilities, water monitoring, and water management facilities. Presently, over 20 percent of New Castle County’s land area is protected by the WRPA provisions of the UDC. UDWRC's 2022 GIS based mapping updates represent the sixth revision to the maps. These maps depict several data layers that represent the four main WRPA categories in New Castle County, Delaware–Cockeysville Formation, Wellhead WRPA, Surface Water WRPA, and Recharge WRPA. The maps serve as a guide for development and assist decision-making in New Castle County, Delaware. The WRPA data will soon be available for download at Delaware FirstMap and PDF versions of the maps are available on the UDWRC website.

The data set reproduces the contents of the soil map 1 : 50,000 of North Rhine-Westphalia without page cuts and nationwide. When information is called up from a GIS, each individual area is described with regard to soil unit, simplified soil type, soil type group of the topsoil, waterlogging, groundwater, soils worthy of protection, root penetration, optimal distance to groundwater, erodability of the topsoil, capillary rise of groundwater, usable field capacity, field capacity, air capacity, saturated Water conductivity, seepage suitability, cation exchange capacity. ecological moisture level, overall filterability, diggability, suitability for geothermal collectors, denitrification potential and compaction sensitivity.

Surface water and groundwater risk maps created by combining current and future interpolated nitrate and phosphate surface water and concentrations and the nitrate and phosphate leachate concentrations. Each component was assessed using a scoring and weighting system, and the scores were combined to generate a national risk map for nitrate at a scale of 1 km2.

North Rhine-Westphalia has been making considerable efforts for many years to protect people, the environment, economic and cultural goods from the dangers of flooding. In addition to structural measures, the mapping of risks, the information of the affected citizens, precautionary planning and flood-oriented development planning are of central importance. By 2015, flood risk management plans will be developed in North Rhine-Westphalia for all areas where significant flood damage can occur. The aim of the new plans is to inform about existing hazards and to capture and coordinate actions from different actors in order to reduce and manage flood-related risks to human health, the environment, infrastructure and property. The basis for this is the EC Flood Risk Assessment and Management Directive (EC-HWRM-RL), which entered into force on 26 November 2007. The aim of the Directive was adopted by the Federal Government in the amendment to the Water Budget Act (WHG) (in force since 1 March 2010). The following steps are foreseen to implement the WHG: Until December 2011: Preliminary assessment and definition of areas where floods may pose a significant risk to human health, the environment, cultural heritage, economic activities or material assets (so-called risk areas). Until December 2013: Preparation of flood hazard and risk maps for these areas. Flood risk maps are drawn up on the basis of flood hazard maps for the same flood scenarios. In addition to the flood hazards (extension of floods), the flood-related adverse effects (e.g. the number of inhabitants concerned, affected residential or protected areas, endangered cultural objects) are to be presented.

IS BK 5 data set Overview of the soil map of NRW 1 : 5,000. The data set shows where large-scale soil maps are available in NRW, mostly at a scale of 1 : 5,000, digital (vectorized) or analogue (scanned and georeferenced) and whether they originate from forestry or agricultural site investigations. Each mapping project ("procedure") is described with name, project code, scale of survey, year of mapping, list and processing date of the available digital evaluations and linked to a procedure documentation.

This dataset has been archived and has been superseded by Flood Map for Planning (NRW_DS125076).

Flood Map shows the areas across Wales that could be affected by flooding from rivers or the sea. It also shows flood defences and the areas that benefit from them.

Flood Map is designed to raise awareness among the public local authorities and other organisations of the likelihood of flooding and to encourage people living and working in areas prone to flooding to find out more and take appropriate action.

The Flood Map includes several layers of information, this layer is: Flood Zone 2, which is NRWs best estimate of the areas of land between Zone 3 and the extent of the flood from rivers or the sea with a 1000 to 1 chance of flooding in any year. It includes those areas defined in Flood Zone 3.

This data release presents geologic map data for the surficial geology of the Aztec 1-degree by 2-degree quadrangle. The map area lies within two physiographic provinces of Fenneman (1928): the Southern Rocky Mountains province, and the Colorado Plateau province, Navajo section. Geologic mapping is mostly compiled from published geologic map data sources ranging from 1:24,000 to 1:250,000 scale, with limited new interpretive contributions. Gaps in map compilation are related to a lack of published geologic mapping at the time of compilation, and not necessarily a lack of surficial deposits. Much of the geology incorporated from published geologic maps is adjusted based on digital elevation model and natural-color image data sources to improve spatial resolution of the data. Spatial adjustments and new interpretations also eliminate mismatches at source map boundaries. This data set represents only the surficial geology, defined as generally unconsolidated to moderately consolidated sedimentary deposits that are Quaternary or partly Quaternary in age, and faults that have documented Quaternary offset. Bedrock and sedimentary material directly deposited as a result of volcanic activity are not included in this database, nor are faults that are not known to have moved during the Quaternary. Map units in the Aztec quadrangle include alluvium, glacial, eolian, mass-wasting, colluvium, and alluvium/colluvium deposit types. Alluvium map units, present throughout the map area, range in age from Quaternary-Tertiary to Holocene and form stream-channel, floodplain, terrace, alluvial-fan, and pediment deposits. Along glaciated drainages terraces are commonly made up of glacial outwash. Glacial map units are concentrated in the northeast corner of the map area and are mostly undifferentiated till deposited in mountain valleys during Pleistocene glaciations. Eolian map units are mostly middle Pleistocene to Holocene eolian sand deposits forming sand sheets and dunes. Mass-wasting map units are concentrated in the eastern part of the map area, and include deposits formed primarily by slide, slump, earthflow, and rock-fall processes. Colluvium and alluvium/colluvium map units form hillslope and undifferentiated valley floor/hillslope deposits, respectively. The detail of geologic mapping varies from about 1:50,000- to 1:250,000-scale depending on the scale of published geologic maps available at the time of compilation, and for new mapping, the resolution of geologic features on available basemap data. Map units are organized within geologic provinces as described by the Seamless Integrated Geologic Mapping (SIGMa) (Turner and others, 2022) extension to the Geologic Map Schema (GeMS) (USGS, 2020). For this data release, first order geologic provinces are the physiographic provinces of Fenneman (1928), which reflect the major geomorphological setting affecting depositional processes. Second order provinces are physiographic sections of Fenneman (1928) if present. Third and fourth order provinces are defined by deposit type. Attributes derived from published source maps are recorded in the map unit polygons to preserve detail and allow database users the flexibility to create derivative map units. Map units constructed by the authors are based on geologic province, general deposit type and generalized groupings of minimum and maximum age to create a number of units typical for geologic maps of this scale. Polygons representing map units were assigned a host of attributes to make that geology easily searchable. Each polygon contains a general depositional process (‘DepositGeneral’) as well as three fields that describe more detailed depositional processes responsible for some deposition in that polygon (‘LocalGeneticType1’ – ‘LocalGeneticType3’). Three fields describe the materials that make up the deposit (‘LocalMaterial1’ – ‘LocalMaterial3’) and the minimum and maximum chronostratigraphic age of a deposit is stored in the ‘LocalAgeMin’ and ‘LocalAgeMax’ fields, respectively. Where a polygon is associated with a prominent landform or a formal stratigraphic name the ‘LocalLandform’ and ‘LocalStratName’ fields are populated. The field ‘LocalThickness’ provides a textual summary of how thick a source publication described a deposit to be. Where three fields are used to describe the contents of a deposit, we attempt to place descriptors in a relative ordering such that the first field is most prominent, however for remotely interpreted deposits and some sources that provide generalized descriptions this was not possible. Values within these searchable fields are generally taken directly from source maps, however we do perform some conservative adjustments of values based on observations from the landscape and/or adjacent source maps. Where new features were interpreted from remote observations, we derive polygon attributes based on a conservative correlation to neighboring maps. Detail provided at the polygon level is simplified into a map unit by matching its values to the DescriptionOfMapUnits_Surficial table. Specifically, we construct map units within each province based on values of ‘DepositGeneral’ and a set of chronostratigraphic age bins that attempt to capture important aspects of Quaternary landscape evolution. Polygons are assigned to the mapunit with a corresponding ‘DepositGeneral’ and the narrowest chronostratigraphic age bin that entirely contains the ‘LocalAgeMin’ and ‘LocalAgeMax’ values of that polygon. Therefore, users may notice some mismatch between the age range of a polygon and the age range of the assigned map unit, where ‘LocalAgeMin’ and ‘LocalAgeMax’ (e.g., Holocene – Holocene) may define a shorter temporal range than suggested by the map unit (e.g., Holocene – late Pleistocene). This apparent discrepancy allows for detailed information to be preserved in the polygons, while also allowing for an integrated suite of map units that facilitate visualization over a large region.

The WFS shows the location characteristics for forest sites in NRW in scale 1: 5.000. The total water balance and the natural nutrient supply of the sites are presented. Derived from the total water balance, the drought sensitivity of the forest sites is shown. In further layers, the location properties are aggregated into site types according to the forest construction concept NRW as well as the location suitability of 16 important forest tree species according to the criteria of the forest construction concept NRW. The information page of the WMS presents the properties for each area and provides links to the information of the forest construction concept NRW. This is an evaluation of the soil map of NRW 1: 5,000 in conjunction with climate data from the NRW Climate Atlas (1981-2010, LANUV NRW, DWD) and relief data (DGM10, Geobasis NRW). All floor areas are presented, of which a digital soil map for forest site exploration — BK5 F — is available at the time of deployment.

Data set of IS BK 5 soil map for forest site exploration of NRW 1 : 5.000. The dataset gives the contents of all digitally prepared large-scale ground maps, usually on a scale of 1: 5,000, again. For this purpose, the individual soil mapping projects ("procedures") were integrated into a largely unbroken overall package. Because the large-scale ground map was not created nationwide, the data set also shows white, uncharted areas. For these areas, soil information on a medium scale can be taken from the data set of the BK50. When retrieving the information from a GIS, each individual area is described with regard to soil unit, simplified soil type, soil type group of the topsoil, waterlogging, groundwater (former and current level), soils worthy of protection, rooting capacity, forestry site characteristics, need for soil protection limescale, optimum level of gradient, erosion of the topsoil, capillary rise of groundwater, usable field capacity, field capacity, air capacity, saturated water conductivity, infiltration suitability, cation exchange capacity and further evaluations.

The New Horizons Pluto Encounter Surface Composition data set contains map data from the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera instrument and the Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array instrument on New Horizons during the Pluto encounter mission phase. Color, albedo, and absorption map data products are included for the CH4, N2, CO, and H2O species. This is VERSION 1.0 of this data set.

The data set shows the location properties for forest sites in NRW in scale 1: 5.000. The total water balance and the natural nutrient supply of the sites are presented. Derived from the total water balance, the drought sensitivity of the forest sites is shown. In further layers, the location properties are aggregated into site types according to the forest construction concept NRW as well as the location suitability of 16 important forest tree species according to the criteria of the forest construction concept NRW. The information page of the WMS presents the properties for each area and provides links to the information of the forest construction concept NRW. This is an evaluation of the soil map of NRW 1: 5,000 in conjunction with climate data from the NRW Climate Atlas (1981-2010, LANUV NRW, DWD) and relief data (DGM10, Geobasis NRW). All floor areas are presented, of which a digital soil map for forest site exploration — BK5 F — is available at the time of deployment.

The data set shows the location properties for forest sites in NRW in scale 1: 50,000 based on projection data according to climate scenario RCP4.5 for the period 2017-2100. The total water balance and the natural nutrient supply of the sites are presented. Derived from the total water balance, the drought sensitivity of the forest sites is shown. In further layers, the location properties are aggregated into site types according to the forest construction concept NRW as well as the location suitability of 16 important forest tree species according to the criteria of the forest construction concept NRW. The information page presents the properties for each area and provides links to the information of the forest construction concept NRW. This is an evaluation of the soil map of NRW 1: 50,000 in conjunction with climate projection data for NRW for the scenario RCP4.5 of the German Weather Service (2070-2100, DWD) and relief data (DGM10, Geobasis NRW). All soil areas are treated equally, regardless of their current use as forest sites or potential forest sites.

The product represents a new design of the State Map at a scale of 1:5,000 (SM 5) in vector form, whose advantages are recency and colour processing. The map contains planimetry based on cadastral map, altimetry adopted from the altimetry part of ZABAGED and map lettering based on database of geographic names Geonames and abbreviations of feature type signification coming up from attributes of selected ZABAGED features. This new design of the SM 5 is repeatedly generated once a year on the part of the Czech territory where the vector form of cadastral map is available. Therefore, part of export units (map sheets of SM 5) has not a full coverage (price of such export unit is then proportionally reduced).

The product represents a new design of the State Map at a scale of 1:5,000 (SM 5) in vector form, whose advantages are recency and colour processing. The map contains planimetry based on cadastral map, altimetry adopted from the altimetry part of ZABAGED and map lettering based on database of geographic names Geonames and abbreviations of feature type signification coming up from attributes of selected ZABAGED features. This new design of the SM 5 is repeatedly generated once a year on the part of the Czech territory where the vector form of cadastral map is available. Therefore, part of export units (map sheets of SM 5) has not a full coverage (price of such export unit is then proportionally reduced).

The data set shows the location properties for forest sites in NRW in scale 1: 50.000. The total water balance and the natural nutrient supply of the sites are presented. This is an evaluation of the soil map of NRW 1: 50,000 in conjunction with climate data from the NRW Climate Atlas (1981-2010, LANUV NRW, DWD) and relief data (DGM10, Geobasis NRW). All soil areas are treated equally, regardless of their current use as forest sites or potential forest sites.

The WMS shows the location characteristics for forest sites in NRW in scale 1: 5,000 based on projection data according to climate scenario RCP4.5 for the period 2071-2100. The total water balance and the natural nutrient supply of the sites are presented. Derived from the total water balance, the drought sensitivity of the forest sites is shown. In further layers, the location properties are aggregated into site types according to the forest construction concept NRW as well as the location suitability of 16 important forest tree species according to the criteria of the forest construction concept NRW. The information page presents the properties for each area and provides links to the information of the forest construction concept NRW. This is an evaluation of the soil map of NRW 1: 5,000 in conjunction with climate projection data for NRW for the scenario RCP4.5 of the German Weather Service (2071-2100, DWD) and relief data (DGM10, Geobasis NRW). All floor areas are presented, of which a digital soil map for forest site exploration — BK5 F — is available at the time of deployment.

The geologic map was created in GSMAP at Socorro, New Mexico by Orin Anderson and Glen Jones and published as the Geologic Map of New Mexico 1:500,000 in GSMAP format in 1994. This graphic file was converted to ARC/INFO format by Greb Green and GlenJones and released as the Geologic Map of New Mexico in ARC/INFO format in 1997.

The product represents a new design of the State Map at a scale of 1:5,000 (SM 5) in vector form, whose advantages are recency and colour processing. The map contains planimetry based on cadastral map, altimetry adopted from the altimetry part of ZABAGED and map lettering based on database of geographic names Geonames and abbreviations of feature type signification coming up from attributes of selected ZABAGED features. This new design of the SM 5 is repeatedly generated once a year on the part of the Czech territory where the vector form of cadastral map is available. Therefore, part of export units (map sheets of SM 5) has not a full coverage (price of such export unit is then proportionally reduced).

The Development Advice Map (DAM) shows areas at risk of flooding from rivers and the sea for the purposes of land-use planning. The DAM supports Planning Policy Wales and Technical Advice Note (TAN) 15 to guide new development away from areas at risk of flooding wherever possible. Together, they form a precautionary framework to guide planning decisions. The DAM should be considered as a trigger for identifying which development proposals may need to undertake a more detailed assessment of flooding risks and consequences in line with the policy advice set out in TAN15.

Zone C (the 1000yr extreme flood outline) was last updated in January 2020. No further updates are planned to the DAM and you are advised to contact Natural Resources Wales (NRW) about the availability of more up-to-date information.

Zone B (areas known to have flooded in the past) was originally published in 2004 and revised in 2017. When using the DAM the preview defaults to Zone B only. You will need to use the legend control to switch on the other zones.

NRW has developed a new Flood Map for Planning (FMfP) which was published in September 2021. This indicates undefended flood extents over the next 100yrs taking into account the impacts of climate change. This will replace the DAM in June 2023. Although the Flood Map for Planning is not referred to in current planning policy, it can be considered as the most up to date information on flooding risks.

Due to technical Issues the Web Services and Map Browser for the Development Advice Map are currently not available. If you wish to browse the data see the NRW Flood Risk Viewer https://maps.cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk/Html5Viewer/Index.html?configBase=https://maps.cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk/Geocortex/Essentials/REST/sites/Flood_Risk/viewers/Flood_Risk/virtualdirectory/Resources/Config/Default&layerTheme=2