Designated Bathing Waters

Beach areas are designated under the Bathing Waters Directive (76/160/EEC) to protect the environment and public health at locations where bathing is not prohibited and is traditionally practised by a large number of bathers. The Directive requires that water quality at all designated bathing waters must meet specific microbiological requirements in order to protect the health of those that bathe there. The waters are designated on the basis of significant use, taking into account varying population densities and visitor numbers. There are currently 86 site designations contained in this dataset.
 
Citation proposal
. Designated Bathing Waters. Scottish Government https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/287f9593-faef-4d66-995c-195b09a074e4

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Date ( Creation )
2013-08-01
Date ( Revision )
2017-06-01
Identifier
www.gov.scot / SG_DesignatedBathingWaters
Presentation form
mapDigital Digital map

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Maintenance and update frequency
annually Annually
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
IPVS - Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary version 2
  • Water and beach safety
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations on public access
Use limitation
The following attribution statement must be used to acknowledge the source of the information: Copyright Scottish Government, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (insert year)
Use limitation
Originally digitised from Ordnance Survey Landranger (1:50K) maps, with designations from 81 digitised against MasterMap.
Spatial representation type
vector Vector
Denominator
50000
Metadata language
eng English
Topic category
  • Environment
Geographic identifier
SCT

 

Date ( Revision )
2007-12-13

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Reference system identifier
EPSG / OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700) / 7.4
Distribution format
  • WMS (1.3.0 )

  • WFS (2.0.0 )

  • ESRI REST (1.0 )

  • ESRI Shapefile (1.0 )

OnLine resource
Designated Bathing Waters  

OGC View Service

OnLine resource
Designated_Bathing_Waters  

OGC Feature Download Service

OnLine resource
Designated Bathing Waters  

ESRI REST Service

OnLine resource
Area Management  

ATOM Download Service

OnLine resource
Designated Bathing Waters  

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Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Statement
On-screen digitising using 1:50K landranger as backdrop was used for bathing Waters 1 - 80, following designations were digitised using Ordnance Suvey Mastermap, this was then buffered by 100m offshore.

Metadata

File identifier
287f9593-faef-4d66-995c-195b09a074e4   XML
Metadata language
eng English
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2018-12-05
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

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