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National Marine Plan interactive (NMPi) reaches 500 layers

February 17, 2015 by Marine Scotland Communications No Comments | Category Marine Directorate general, Marine Planning

The number of data layers in our National Marine Plan interactive (NMPi) continues to grow and is now in excess of 500, representing a huge data resource for use by everyone.

New data layers continue to be added and amongst the recent layers are:

• Scotland’s Marine Atlas (2011) Overall Assessment (as 4 layers)
• A new section called ‘National Marine Plan – 2015’ has been added which displays all the maps in the national marine plan that was lodged in the Scottish Parliament in December 2014. The previous section, ‘Draft National Marine Plan – 2013’ remains so that an archive of the developing National Marine Plan can be accessed.
• Proposals for remaining Nature Conservation MPAs (December 2014)
• New section on Climate Change ‘Carbon budgets and potential blue carbon stores’ with 3 layers
• Human Population with 3 layers based on data from NRS and the 2011 Census
• Various seabed geology layers
• Digital Aerial Photography of Scotland from 2008-2013

Marine Scotland continues to work with SEPA, SNH, JNCC and MASTS to develop layers that will be relevant and valuable for marine planning. Marine Scotland is also working with Clyde and Shetland on suitable regional data layers.

Feedback on NMPI is always welcome and can be e-mailed to marineplanning@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

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