Identification

Title

Spatial inventory of UK waterbodies

Abstract

The dataset is the lake polygons from the UK Lakes Portal (https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/), originally based on OS PANORAMA but this dataset includes data from a number of sources. It has a basic set of attributes including the water body ID (WBID) as well as the computed area and perimeter of each lake. The WBID is commonly used across research institutions and is the same ID as used on the UK Lakes Portal, where more information can be found on each lake in this dataset. This is v3.6, which follows the same versioning as the underlying database. Although the database has seen the majority of the changes since version 1, the polygons have also been changed and improved over that time, mostly fixing issues with lake outlines, but also some new sites being added. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/b6b92ce3-dcd7-4f0b-8e43-e937ddf1d4eb

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/b6b92ce3-dcd7-4f0b-8e43-e937ddf1d4eb

name: Download the data

description: Download a copy of this data

function: download

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/b6b92ce3-dcd7-4f0b-8e43-e937ddf1d4eb.zip

name: Supporting information

description: Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/b6b92ce3-dcd7-4f0b-8e43-e937ddf1d4eb

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

geoscientificInformation

inlandWaters

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Hydrography

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Lakes

lake polygons

waterbodies

loch

llyn

lough

standing waters

freshwater

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.648

East bounding longitude

1.768

North bounding latitude

60.861

South bounding latitude

49.864

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2021-11-23

date type

creation

effective date

2021-11-22

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

The development of the database was jointly funded by the Environment Agency, Natural England, Countryside Council for Wales (now Natural Resources Wales), and the Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research (SNIFFER). Lake polygon geometry in Northern Ireland is based upon Crown Copyright and is reproduced with the permission of Land & Property Services under delegated authority from the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, Crown copyright and database rights, EMOU206.2. Northern Ireland Environment Agency Copyright 2015. Lake polygon geometry in Great Britain is mostly based on Ordnance Survey data and contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This is version 3.6 of the dataset, with the versioning being aligned with the ongoing development of the underlying UK lakes database: https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/apps/lakes/. This is the first published version in a datacentre, with all changes to polygon outlines from version 1 being represented here.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

explanation

Data format

name of format

Geopackage

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Taylor, P.J. (2021). Spatial inventory of UK waterbodies. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/b6b92ce3-dcd7-4f0b-8e43-e937ddf1d4eb

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

custodian

Responsible party

organisation name

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

publisher

Responsible party

organisation name

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

owner

Responsible party

organisation name

Ordnance Survey

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

owner

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

UK

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2021-11-25T08:25:42

Metadata language

eng