BGS geological maps Web service
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2025
0115 936 3276
0115 936 3276
0115 936 3276
0115 936 3276
- Maintenance and update frequency
- asNeeded As needed
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
- BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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- Index maps
- UK Location (INSPIRE)
- Historical geology
- EGDI
- Geophysical maps
- Geological maps
- Maps
- dataCentre
- COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards metadata, Part D 4, Classification of Spatial Data Services
- Keywords
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- NERC_DDC
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations
- Other constraints
- The dataset is made freely available for access, e.g. via the Internet. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner(s) of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely accessible.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
- Other constraints
- Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
- Service Type
- view
- Geographic identifier
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CHA
- Date (Revision)
- 2009
- Geographic identifier
-
CHANNEL ISLES [id=192500]
- Date (Creation)
- 1979
- Geographic identifier
-
EAW
- Date (Revision)
- 2009
- Geographic identifier
-
EIRE [id=182000]
- Date (Creation)
- 1979
- Geographic identifier
-
ENGLAND & WALES [id=149000]
- Date (Creation)
- 1979
- Geographic identifier
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GB
- Date (Revision)
- 2009
- Geographic identifier
-
GBN
- Date (Revision)
- 2009
- Geographic identifier
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GREAT BRITAIN [id=139600]
- Date (Creation)
- 1979
- Geographic identifier
-
IOM
- Date (Revision)
- 2009
- Geographic identifier
-
ISLE OF MAN [id=178000]
- Date (Creation)
- 1979
- Geographic identifier
-
NIR
- Date (Revision)
- 2009
- Geographic identifier
-
NORTHERN IRELAND [id=181000]
- Date (Creation)
- 1979
- Geographic identifier
-
SCOTLAND [id=140000]
- Date (Creation)
- 1979
- Geographic identifier
-
SCT
- Date (Revision)
- 2009
- Geographic identifier
-
UK CONTINENTAL SHELF [id=121701]
- Date (Creation)
- 1979
- Geographic identifier
-
UK [id=139300]
- Date (Creation)
- 1979
- Geographic identifier
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UKM
- Date (Revision)
- 2009
- Begin date
- 1830 After
- Coupling Type
- Tight
Contains Operations
- Operates On
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- BGS 1:10 560 / 1:10 000 County Series geological maps
- BGS 1:10 560 / 1:10 000 National Grid Series geological maps
- BGS 1:25 000 Classical Areas of British Geology Series geological maps
- BGS 1:250 000 Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Series geological maps of the UK and Continental Shelf
- 173df284-debd-1fba-e063-0937940a60d7
- BGS 1:63 360 / 1:50 000 series geological maps
- BGS 1:63 360 Old Series One-inch geological maps
- BGS Geophysical maps
- BGS Thematic Mapping
- Hydrogeological Maps of the UK
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)
- Distribution format
-
0115 936 3276
0115 936 3276
- OnLine resource
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BGS geological maps Web Map Service
(
OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-capabilities
)
GetCapabilities response for OGC WMS service for layer(s) relating to BGS geological maps
- Hierarchy level
- service Service
- Other
- service
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2011
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
- See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
- Pass
- No
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2011-03-21
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification at http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/documents/Network_Services/TechnicalGuidance_ViewServices_v3.0.pdf
- Pass
- No
- Statement
- For the lineage of datasets served by this service, refer to the metadata for those data.
- File identifier
- 3a329bf2-68dc-b33b-e063-3050940adafc XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- service Service
- Hierarchy level name
- service
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
- Dataset URI
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608439
Overviews
Spatial extent
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NERC Data Catalogue Service