I don't know whether I have missed some messages as our mail server has been
down over the last few days, and this may already have been raised.
I understand that DEFRA, working with partners (DTLR, English Heritage,
English Nature, Countryside Agency, Forestry Commission etc) are working on
a project called MAGIC (Multi-Agency Geographic Information for the
Countryside) to do (among other things) just this job for England. Quite
what their data standards are I couldn't say, and it may be that SAMs are
being represented only as points at the moment.
A wide variety of datasets of designated sites and areas are covered,
including natural environment, landscape characterisation, agri-environment
etc, but also historic environment designations - battlefields, designated
wrecks and SAMs. Listed buildings are not mentioned but presumably the
intention is to include these at a later date. The project is due to go
online in Spring 2002.
Further information on this project is available on their website
(www.magic.gov.uk). Full data will be shared between the partners and
summary data will be available on the web via the Countryside information
system (www.cis-web.org.uk). My 2-minute reading of their extensive online
manual suggest that they only present data by km square.
Perhaps others on the list can throw more light on this project.
James Dinn
-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Campling [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 05 October 2001 14:15
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: SAMs on GIS
Dear All,
Regarding Jason's note near the end of his presentation, I like to ask what
resources are English Heritage putting into a web accessible, down-loadable,
GIS inter-operable database for SAM boundaries and descriptions ??
Cheers,
Neil
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