BGS Hosted Metadata
UKSO_mysoil
The mySoil project is a joint development by the British Geological Survey (BGS) and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH). The project has developed smartphone technologies, based on the iOS and Android platforms, to provide basic information on soil across Europe, with enhanced information such as habitat, soil texture, organic content, temperature, depth and pH range for Great Britain. The data behind the app are derived from the BGS Parent Material Map, the CEH Countryside Survey and Land Cover map datasets, Met Office soil temperature datasets and joint research centre Parent Materials database. All the data are accessed via freely available web map services. The mySoil project has also developed crowdsourcing capabilities to allow users to upload and share their own observations and photographs of soil. The project has recently converted all the smartphone functionality into the UKSO map viewer, enabling all users with web access to view or take part in the project.
The mySoil project maps are based upon a modified version of the BGS Parent Material Map (the data shows the European Soil Bureau classification for Parent Material type) as well as the European-wide Joint Research Centre Parent Materials database. The maps are simplified to enable rapid use in smartphones, and web browsers enabling a wide range of users and developers to view or take part in the project aims of disseminating and crowdsourcing basic soil data.
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Identification info
- Date (Revision)
- 2022-04-08T11:30:56
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
Garry Baker
Point of contact
- Theme
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Maps
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Geology
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Soil
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United Kingdom
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OneGeology
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MD_DATE@2022
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MD_LANG@ENG
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- Other restrictions
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These data are delivered under the terms of the Open Government Licence ( http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/), subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced BGS materials: Contains British Geological Survey materials copyright NERC [year]. Contact us if you create something new and innovative that could benefit others usingbgsdata@bgs.ac.uk.
- Service Type
- OGC:WMS
- Service Version
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1.3.0
- Fees
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none
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- Coupled Resource
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Operation Name Scoped name Identifier GetMap
coastline 1bde7df87c2ecc4f798123284d10c4ae9e2a6ae4
GetMap
ParentMaterialModel_V6_portal_original f5f5e6c25ac84036e820dd73add17550b425c224
- Coupling Type
- Tight
- Contains Operations
- Distribution format
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Name Version
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name application/vnd.ogc.wms_xml
https://map.bgs.ac.uk/arcgis/services/UKSO/mysoil/MapServer/WMSServer?
- Hierarchy level
- Service
Attributes
Metadata
- File identifier
- cc4c717fa4c4578d3b0c3ddcf4a47585f6b3be48 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Service
- Date stamp
- 2022-04-08T11:30:56
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19119/2005
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
Garry Baker
Point of contact
