# Wild land areas 2014

Responsible organisation: Scottish Natural Heritage

Metadata last updated: 2014-06-20

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## Data Description (What?)

### Alternate titles

Wild_land_areas_v4

Dataset name: GIS_SNH_OWNER.WLA_2014

### Reference date(s)

2014-03-31 - creation

### Abstract

The data contains boundaries of Wild Land Areas in Scotland as determined by their level of naturalness, remoteness, ruggedness and lack of built modern artefacts. Boundaries should be considered as ‘fuzzy’ rather than definitive to reflect the transitional nature of wild land. It is an updateand replacementto the previously published Core Areas of Wild Land(CAWL)produced in 2013. Note that the areas have been renumbered sequentially and differ from those on the CAWL map.For more information visithttps://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/landscape-change/landscape-policy-and-guidance/landscape-policy-wild-land

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## Contact information (Who?)

Role: pointOfContact

- Individual's name Catherine Harry
- Contact's position Policy & Advice Officer / Landscape Adviser
- Organization Scottish Natural Heritage

Telephone | +44 01463 725098
E-mail address | catherine.harry@nature.scot
Delivery point | Great Glen House, Leachkin Road
City | Inverness
Postal code | IV3 8NW
Country | United Kingdom

Role: custodian

- Individual's name Simon Brooks
- Contact's position Policy & Advice Manager - Landscape
- Organization Scottish Natural Heritage

Telephone | +44 01463 725000
E-mail address | simon.brooks@nature.scot
Delivery point | Great Glen House, Leachkin Road
City | Inverness
Postal code | IV3 8NW
Country | United Kingdom

Role: originator

- Individual's name Duncan Blake
- Contact's position GI Analyst
- Organization Scottish Natural Heritage

Telephone | +44 01224 266502
E-mail address | duncan.blake@nature.scot
Delivery point | Inverdee House, Baxter Street, Torry
City | Aberdeen
Postal code | AB11 9QA
Country | United Kingdom

Role: pointOfContact

- Individual's name Geographic Information Group
- Contact's position Data Supply
- Organization Scottish Natural Heritage

Telephone | 01463 725000
E-mail address | data_supply@nature.scot
Delivery point | Great Glen House
City | Inverness
Postal code | IV3 8NW

### Metadata contact(s)

Role: distributor

- Individual's name Geographic Information Group
- Contact's position Data Supply
- Organization Scottish Natural Heritage

Telephone | 01463 725000
E-mail address | data_supply@nature.scot
Delivery point | Great Glen House
City | Inverness
Postal code | IV3 8NW

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## Keywords, categories, classification

### Topic category

- environment

### Place keywords

- GB-SCT

### Theme keywords

- Environmental protection
- Downloadable Data

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## Dataset background, process history

### Lineage, dataset history

The data from the relative wildness map (Phase I) was split into eight wildness classes based on Jenks Natural Breaks Optimisation method. In Phase II extensive areas of the two highest classes were selected (using a guideline of >650 ha) which with their adjacent areas of high wildness suggested the largest and most wild areas. Phase III selected and defined Wild Land Areas, with boundaries drawn applying informed judgements to confirm the selection of areas following a set of guidelines. This phase allowed for the consideration of wind farm development consented or built since the wildness mapping (Phase I) was produced. Note the coastal boundaries have been cut to follow the OS BoundaryLine MHWS line. In places such as Rum and the Garvellachs this coastline was of insufficient quality so OS VectorMap District was used instead. For more detailed information visit https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/landscape-change/landscape-policy-and-guidance/landscape-policy-wild-land

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## Maintenance and legal restrictions

### Maintenance

Update frequency: unknown

### Access and usage constraints

Usage constraints
Limitations of use: | Available under the Open Government Licence (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence)

Legal Constraints
Access constraints: | license copyright
Use constraints: |
Attribution, acknowledgements: | Available under the Open Government Licence (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence). You must always use the following attribution statement to acknowledge the source of the information: Copyright Scottish Natural Heritage Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (year)

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## Geographic properties (Where?)

### Spatial Reference System

Name: 27700

Code space: EPSG

Version: 7.4.1

### Spatial resolution

Ground sample distance - 25 metres

### Extent

Bounding coordinates (WGS84, lat/lon)

| 60.598607 |
-7.88229 |  | -1.354187
| 54.995434 |

### Extent

Bounding coordinates (WGS84, lat/lon)

| 60.598607 |
-7.88229 |  | -1.354187
| 54.995434 |

### Extent

Bounding coordinates (WGS84, lat/lon)

| 60.598607 |
-7.88229 |  | -1.354187
| 54.995434 |

### Extent

Bounding coordinates (WGS84, lat/lon)

| 65.171944 |
-28.171997 |  | 15.227695
| 45.501382 |

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## Distribution Information

### Distributor contact

Role: distributor

- Individual's name Geographic Information Group
- Contact's position Data Supply
- Organization Scottish Natural Heritage

Telephone | 01463 725000
E-mail address | data_supply@nature.scot
Delivery point | Great Glen House
City | Inverness
Postal code | IV3 8NW

### Available formats

- File Geodatabase Feature Class (version )

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