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spatialdata.gov.scot (Scottish Spatial Data Infrastructure)
Scottish Government / Improvement Service
- Licence
- Unclear
- Cost
- Check with holder
- Account needed
- Unclear
- Harvestable
- Automated
What it contains
INSPIRE-compliant discovery metadata for Scottish public sector spatial data - protected areas, planning, environment, with WMS/WFS links.
When you need it
Useful at these project stages, from the working group's stage matrix:
- Matched on
- Constraints, regulation and consenting data (not a matrix item)
- Assigned by
- Matched to data items the matrix names
Coverage and detail
- Geographic
- Scotland
- Nations
- Scotland
- Resolution
- Dataset metadata
- Formats
- ISO 19139 XML, WMS/WFS links
- Update cadence
- Continuous
Access and machine route
- Licence as stated
- Metadata open; data varies
- Assertion source
- as published by Scottish Government / Improvement Service
- Protocol
- OGC CSW 2.0.2 (GetRecords)
- Endpoint
- https://www.spatialdata.gov.scot/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw
- Harvest note
- yes-automated Link check 2026-09-08: automated check blocked by the host; not verified. robots.txt disallowed (same as i110).
Caveats
CSW harvesting is standard but metadata quality is uneven; many records point to broken services.
Classification
- Category
- Constraints, Regulation & Consenting
- Sub-category
- 4.1 Environmental designations & protected sites
- Assigned by
- Stated by the source
- Depth domain
- Surface
- Data form
- Raster, Vector
- Evidence confidence
- Not yet assessed. Only a person can set this.
How current this entry is
- Last updated here
- 2026-09-22
- Last checked against the holder
- 2026-09-07
- Checked by a person
- Not yet. Nobody has read this entry.
- Catalogue id
- spatialdata-gov-scot-scottish-spatial-data-infrastructure
Open at Scottish Government
Licence is not clearly stated. Confirm with the holder.
Could not be checked
On 2026-09-08 the holder's site refused the automated request. That is bot protection, not evidence the link is broken, and not evidence it works.
Checked by automated request, not in a browser. A site can answer a script and still fail for a reader, so treat this as a weak signal.
Machine endpoint (ISO 19139 XML, WMS/WFS links)
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