Introducing the greenspace map

#GreenspaceMap

Julie Procter | 8 November 2017

www.greenspacescotland.org.uk | @greenspacescot

• Scotland’s greenspace map

• Working with Ordnance Survey

• NEW OS greenspace maps:

open data and MasterMap

• Using the data

www.greenspacescotland.org.uk/policy-connections.aspx

SGM partnership • Aberdeen City Council

• Aberdeenshire Council

• Angus Council

• Argyll & Bute Council

• City of Edinburgh Council

• Clackmannanshire Council

• Dumfries & Galloway Council

• Dundee City Council

• East Ayrshire Council

• East Dunbartonshire Council

• East Lothian Council

• East Renfrewshire Council

• Eilean Siar

• Falkirk Council

• Fife Council

• Glasgow City Council

• Highland Council

• Inverclyde Council

• Midlothian Council

• Moray Council

• North Ayrshire Council

• Orkney Islands Council

• Perth & Kinross Council

• Renfrewshire Council

• Scottish Borders Council

• Shetland Islands Council

• South Ayrshire Council

• South Lanarkshire Council

• Stirling Council

• West Dunbartonshire Council

• West Lothian Council

• Central Scotland Green Network

• Convention of Scottish Local Authorities

• Forestry Commission Scotland

• Glasgow & Clyde Valley Green Network

Partnership

• greenspace scotland

• Improvement Service

• Ordnance Survey

• NHS Health Scotland

• Scottish Environmental Protection Agency

• Scottish Government

• Scottish Natural Heritage

• sportscotland

© Ordnance Survey 2016 | Confidential

OS Open

Greenspace OS MasterMap

Greenspace Layer

OS Open Greenspace

© Ordnance Survey 2017

Audience

• For the general public

• Use to find places to visit for recreation and leisure

• Supports public sector use cases around promoting and improving access

to greenspace

Content

• Includes publicly accessible greenspaces

• Depicts the extent of features and, where available, their access points

• Generalised geometry

• National GB dataset (urban and rural geography)

Availability

• Licenced as Open data

• Available for download from OS via data.gov.uk

• Published as layer on OS Maps consumer web portal and apps

• Included in the Greenspace Feedback Tool to allow expert users (i.e.

PSMA/OSMA members) to provide feedback

OS Open Greenspace Data

© Ordnance Survey 2017

GreenspaceSite

Attributes

id

function

distinctiveName1

distinctiveName2

distinctiveName3

distinctiveName4

Attributes

id

accessType

refToGreenspaceEx

tent

GreenspaceExtent

AccessPoint

Greenspace Open

AccessPoints

What’s included?

Public park or garden

Play space

Playing field

Golf course

Tennis courts

Bowling green

Other Sports Facility

Allotments or Community

Growing Spaces

Religious Ground

Cemetery

© Ordnance Survey 2017 | Confidential

www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getoutside/greenspaces/

OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer

© Ordnance Survey 2017 |

Audience

• Intended for public sector use, particularly local and central

government

• To enable effective management of green infrastructure for benefits

including health/wellbeing, climate change resilience, reduced urban

flooding and biodiversity

Content

• A comprehensive dataset of greenspaces including both publicly

accessible and non-accessible areas

• Consists of all the ‘green bits’ of Topography Layer, with attribution

describing their land use/land cover

• National dataset, but covering urban areas only

Availability

• Licenced for Public Sector use

• Available for download from OS

• Included in the Greenspace Feedback Tool to allow expert users (ie

PSMA/OSMA members) to provide feedback

OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer

© Ordnance Survey 2017 | Confidential

Attributes TOID

version

geometry

primaryFunction

secondaryFunction

primaryForm

secondaryForm

GreenspaceArea

Greenspace Premium

What’s included?

Function

Public Park or Garden

School Grounds

Institutional Grounds

Golf Course

Amenity – Residential or

Business

Amenity – Transport

Camping or Caravan Park

Religious Grounds

Cemetery

Allotments or Community

Growing Spaces

Private Garden

Playing Field

Other Sports Facility

Tennis Court

Play Space

Bowling Green

Land Use Changing

Natural

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Form

Open Semi-Natural

Inland Water

Woodland

Beach Or Foreshore

Manmade Surface

Multi Surface

What’s changed? MasterMap Greenspace

• Split between Function and Form

• Primary and secondary for each

• Hierarchy used to assign primary and secondary order

• New categories – some minor changes to the 2011

specification

• Names rather than numbers

• Hierarchy used to assign primary and secondary order

• Bespoke feedback tool

…and Open Greenspace adds ACCESS POINTS

PAN 65 Typology 2011 Scotland’s Greenspace Map OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer

Expanded PAN 65 typology FUNCTION types FORM types

Public parks and gardens 6.1 Public park and garden Public park or garden

Private gardens or grounds 6.21 Private gardens Private garden

6.22 School grounds School grounds

6.23 Institutional grounds Institutional grounds

Amenity greenspace 6.31 Amenity - residential Amenity – residential or business 6.32 Amenity - business

6.33 Amenity - transport Amenity transport

Play space for children and teenagers

6.4 Play space Play space

Sports Areas 6.51 Playing fields Playing field

6.52 Golf courses Golf course

6.53 Tennis courts Tennis court

6.54 Bowling greens Bowling green

6.55 Other sports Other sports

Green corridors 6.61 Green access routes x

6.62 Riparian routes x

Natural/Semi-natural greenspace

6.71 Woodland Natural Woodland

6.72 Open semi-natural Open semi-natural

6.73 Open water Open water

Beach or foreshore NEW

Manmade NEW

Allotments & community growing spaces

6.81 Allotments & community growing spaces

Allotments or community growing spaces

Burial grounds 6.82 Churchyard Churchyard

6.83 Cemetery Cemetery

Other functional greenspace 6.84 Other functional greenspace, e.g. caravan park

Camping or caravan park

99 Areas undergoing land use change Areas undergoing land use change

Unknown

Comparing the expanded PAN 65 typology used in 2011 Scotland’s Greenspace Map

with types in OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer

‘NEW GENERATION’ GREENSPACE MAP - IMPROVEMENTS

Commercial - Official

• Automated

• Consistent

• Up-to-date

• Maintained

• Comprehensive

• Open data

• Access points

• Tell OS

• Value for money

Local | Regional | National || Management | Policy | Research

Planning | Health & Wellbeing | Green Networks | Ecosystem Services

USING SCOTLAND’S GREENSPACE MAP

http://greenspacescotland.org.uk/community-growing.aspx

Green Network Blueprint

Urban Green Network

Natural Flood Management

• GP green prescribing

• Health research

• State of Scotland’s greenspace report

• Understanding Scotland’s towns

• Food growing strategies

• Emergency services

• Geovation challenge

• emerging ideas and applications….

NEW & EMERGING USES

www.greenspacescotland.org.uk/state-of-scotlands-greenspace.apsx

Coming soon…

3rd State of Scotland’s Greenspace report

www.greenspacescotland.org.uk

@greenspacescot #OSGreenspaceMap