BGS Groundwater

The Africa Groundwater Atlas is an online resource developed by the BGS, in collaboration with hydrogeologists across Africa. This service presents layers showing the hydrogeology (aquifer type and productivity) and geology (with particular reference to hydrogeology) of 38 African countries.

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Identification info

Date (Revision)
2019-11-13T11:08:59
Status
Completed
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

Brighid Ó Dochartaigh

africagwatlas@bgs.ac.uk

Point of contact
Theme

  • OneGeology

  • Groundwater

  • Geology

  • Hydroeology

  • MD_DATE@2019-07-31

  • MD_LANG@ENG
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

The Africa Groundwater Atlas country hydrogeology maps are released under a Creative Commons ‘Attribution/Share Alike’ (CC BY SA) licence.



A summary of the terms of this licence is available at : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/



The full legal text of this licence is available at : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode



Under this licence, you are free to :



Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format



Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.



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You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.



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Service Type
OGC:WMS
Service Version

1.3.0
Fees

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Coupling Type
Tight
Contains Operations
Operation Name Distributed Computing Platforms Connect Point

GetCapabilities

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Operates On
Distribution format
Name Version
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

application/vnd.ogc.wms_xml

 		https://map.bgs.ac.uk/arcgis/services/AGA/BGS_Groundwater/MapServer/WmsServer?
Hierarchy level
Service

Attributes

No information provided.

Metadata

File identifier
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Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Service
Date stamp
2019-11-13T11:08:59
Metadata standard name

ISO 19119/2005
Metadata standard version

1.0
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Geological Survey

Brighid Ó Dochartaigh

africagwatlas@bgs.ac.uk

Point of contact
 
 

Overviews

Keywords

Geology Groundwater Hydroeology MD_DATE@2019-07-31 MD_LANG@ENG OneGeology


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