BGS Hosted Metadata
Integrated Hydrological Units of the United Kingdom View Service
This is a web map view service for the Integrated Hydrological Units (IHU) of the United Kingdom. The IHU define geographical reference units for hydrological purposes including river flow measurement and hydrometric data collection in the UK. The layers in this service represent the following component polygon layers: Hydrometric Areas with Coastline; Hydrometric Areas without Coastline; Groups; Sections; and Catchments. Each layer represents a different level of spatial detail. The coarsest level, Hydrometric Areas, is provided in two versions to meet differing user needs. Each Hydrometric Area is made up of one or more Groups. Each Group carries a name constructed from names of the major river flowing through the Group, the major river flowing into the Group, the major river into which the Group flows, and in some cases also from local county names. Each Group is made up of smaller units called Sections. A Section is the drainage area of a watercourse between two confluences. Only confluences of named watercourses were considered. Similarly to Groups, each Section carries a name constructed from names of the major river flowing through the Section, the major river flowing into the Section, and the major river into which the Section flows. Catchments represent the full area upstream from an outlet of every Section. Polygons within each layer do not have gaps and, with the exception of Catchments, polygons within one layer do not overlap. The Hydrometric Areas with Coastline layer covers Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but all other layers currently cover Great Britain only as no dataset with river geometries and names with suitable detail is available for Northern Ireland.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 2015-03-02
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/cca47088-8cdd-4d7a-86b4-90f0a1766364
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Point of contact Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Hydrography
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GeoNames
- Keywords
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- Hydrology
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United Kingdom
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Great Britain
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infoMapAccessService
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Terms and conditions apply
- Service Type
- view
- Service Version
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1.3.0
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- Coupled Resource
- Coupling Type
- Tight
- Contains Operations
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Operation Name Distributed Computing Platforms Connect Point GetCapabilities
HTTPGet https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/cca47088-8cdd-4d7a-86b4-90f0a1766364? GetMap
HTTPGet https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/cca47088-8cdd-4d7a-86b4-90f0a1766364? GetFeatureInfo
HTTPGet https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/cca47088-8cdd-4d7a-86b4-90f0a1766364?
- Operates On
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- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/10d419c8-8f65-4b85-a78a-3d6e0485fa1f
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/a6e37e39-9e10-4647-a110-12d902403095
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/3a4e94fc-4c68-47eb-a217-adee2a6b02b3
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/1957166d-7523-44f4-b279-aa5314163237
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/f1cd5e33-2633-4304-bbc2-b8d34711d902
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator
- Distribution format
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Name Version JPEG
PNG
TIFF
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/cca47088-8cdd-4d7a-86b4-90f0a1766364?request=getCapabilities&service=WMS&cache=false& getCapabilities response
- Hierarchy level
- Service
- Other
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service
Domain consistency
Conformance result
- Title
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Pass
- No
Conformance result
- Title
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Technical Guidance for the implementation of INSPIRE View Services Version 3.0
- Date (Publication)
- 2011-03-21
- Pass
- No
Metadata
- File identifier
- cca47088-8cdd-4d7a-86b4-90f0a1766364 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- Service
- Hierarchy level name
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service
- Date stamp
- 2026-01-09T11:30:32
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
