Normal background concentrations of contaminants (OGC WxS INSPIRE)

DatasetNational · United Kingdom

The BGS has been commissioned by Defra to provide guidance on what are 'normal' levels of contaminant concentrations in English soils in support of the revision of the Part 2A Contaminated Land Statutory Guidance. The domain polygons and other data produced by this work are served as WMS here.

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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.

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Public Sector API

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