NatureScot Protected Areas WFS

DatasetNational · United Kingdom

This WFS provides feature access to the data about the various designated sites (protected areas) in Scotland.

Trust score

fair

Composite of 5 axes from our methodology (proof-based officialness, live verification, metadata completeness, license clarity, agent readiness).

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.
License clarityweight 15%50/100
License info not yet tracked for APIs (datasets only).
Agent readinessweight 15%0/100
No machine-actionable signals detected yet.

Official Proof

Public Sector API

Proof Evidence

Confidence: 0%

Data schema (16 fields)

Field	Type	Description
NAME	string	—
PA_CODE	int	—
STATUS	string	—
EUROPEAN_CODE	string	—
TYPE	string	—
SITE_HA	double	—
FEATURE_HA	double	—
UPDATED	dateTime	—
MPA_NETWORK	string	—
GEOGRAPHIC_LOCATION	string	—
PA_TYPE	string	—
Shape_Length	double	—
Shape_Area	double	—
the_geom	geometry	—
AREA_TYPE	string	—
FEAUTRE_HA	double	—

Schema captured from wfs 2 days ago.

Sample data (3 records)

Record 1NAME: Conon Islands · TYPE: BIOLOGICAL

{
  "NAME": "Conon Islands",
  "TYPE": "BIOLOGICAL",
  "STATUS": "Current",
  "PA_CODE": 8230,
  "PA_TYPE": "SAC",
  "SITE_HA": 120.01,
  "UPDATED": "2019-01-30T00:00:00Z",
  "FEATURE_HA": 5.08,
  "Shape_Area": 50794.65078238614,
  "MPA_NETWORK": "N",
  "Shape_Length": 1022.9736830709287,
  "EUROPEAN_CODE": "UK0013575",
  "GEOGRAPHIC_LOCATION": "MIXED"
}

Record 2NAME: Loch Lomond Woods · TYPE: BIOLOGICAL

{
  "NAME": "Loch Lomond Woods",
  "TYPE": "BIOLOGICAL",
  "STATUS": "Current",
  "PA_CODE": 8298,
  "PA_TYPE": "SAC",
  "SITE_HA": 1450.01,
  "UPDATED": "2014-06-13T00:00:00Z",
  "FEATURE_HA": 15.19,
  "Shape_Area": 151860.16770677175,
  "MPA_NETWORK": "N",
  "Shape_Length": 3676.4126861027166,
  "EUROPEAN_CODE": "UK0013573",
  "GEOGRAPHIC_LOCATION": "TERRESTRIAL"
}

Record 3NAME: Loch Lomond Woods · TYPE: BIOLOGICAL

{
  "NAME": "Loch Lomond Woods",
  "TYPE": "BIOLOGICAL",
  "STATUS": "Current",
  "PA_CODE": 8298,
  "PA_TYPE": "SAC",
  "SITE_HA": 1450.01,
  "UPDATED": "2014-06-13T00:00:00Z",
  "FEATURE_HA": 0.96,
  "Shape_Area": 9644.728135793075,
  "MPA_NETWORK": "N",
  "Shape_Length": 521.8949163015114,
  "EUROPEAN_CODE": "UK0013573",
  "GEOGRAPHIC_LOCATION": "TERRESTRIAL"
}

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

Verification Status

Using the API

Query examples

curl -s 'https://ogc.nature.scot/geoserver/protectedareas/wfs?service=WFS&version=2.0.0&request=GetCapabilities' -H 'Accept: application/json'

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