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Welsh protected areas and spatial data
Natural Resources Wales (NRW), Welsh Government (DataMapWales)
- Licence
- Commercial or restricted
- Cost
- Paid or bespoke
- Account needed
- Unclear
- Harvestable
- Partial
What it contains
SACs, SPAs, SSSIs, NNRs, National Parks, Ramsar for Wales; NRW operational areas; Licenced Water Abstractions (Wales).
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
- Wales
- Nations
- Wales
- Resolution
- Polygon
- Formats
- WMS, WFS, GeoNode downloads
- Update cadence
- Varies; abstraction permits quarterly
Access and machine route
- Licence as stated
- MIXED AND OFTEN NOT OGL - NRW uses bespoke licences; some layers redacted; fuller versions need case-by-case approval
- Assertion source
- as published by Natural Resources Wales (NRW), Welsh Government (DataMapWales)
- Protocol
- GeoNode WMS / WFS
- Harvest note
- yes-automated (open layers); yes-manual-download (token/approval layers) machine_endpoint is a URL template, not a resolvable link: https://datamap.gov.wales/layers/inspire-nrw:<LAYER> (GeoNode, WMS/WFS per layer); metadata as XML and HTML via API
Caveats
Token auth and bespoke licences make Wales the hardest of the three GB nations to harvest automatically. Bilingual metadata (Welsh/English) - decide a canonical language and store both.
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
- welsh-protected-areas-and-spatial-data
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