BGS bedrock and superficial onshore 1:625k geology and offshore 1:1M sediments (OGC WFS and OGC Features APIs)

DatasetNational · United Kingdom

These services are a BGS contribution to the OneGeology project, providing UK onshore geological data at 1:625 000 scale and UK continental shelf seabed sediment data at 1:1 million scale. This map data is collected as part of an ongoing BGS project: Digital Geological Map of Great Britain (DiGMa...

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Officialnessweight 25%0/100
0/100 from 5 proof signals (domain / portal-backlink / GitHub-org / reciprocal / policy).
Availabilityweight 25%100/100
Latest verification succeeded.
Metadata completenessweight 20%67/100
4 of 6 recommended metadata fields populated.
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Data schema (4 fields)

Field	Type	Description
msGeometry	geometry	—
RCS_D	string	—
LEX_D	string	—
AGE_ONEGL	string	—

Schema captured from wfs 3 days ago.

Sample data (3 records)

RCS_D
MAFIC IGNEOUS-ROCK
MAFIC IGNEOUS-ROCK
MAFIC IGNEOUS-ROCK

Live sample captured at profiling time — values may have changed upstream.

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Using the API

Query examples

curl -s 'https://ogc.bgs.ac.uk/cgi-bin/BGS_Bedrock_and_Superficial_Geology/ows?service=WFS&version=2.0.0&request=GetCapabilities' -H 'Accept: application/json'

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