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Appendix D. Digital Soil Map Data
Digital soil map data generally have similar quality factors to the underlying maps. An example data quality description for the 1:250 000 scale soil maps as digitised by MLURI is given below.
D1. At 1:250 000 scale.
D1.1. Basic description
Title | Digital Soil Maps of Scotland at 1:250 000 scale |
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Dataset acronym | QMSoils - Digital |
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Original purpose | To facilitate soil modelling in a GIS for Scotland. |
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Dataset description | QMSoils - Digital is the vector-digitised copy of the soil map at 1:250 000 scale covering the whole of Scotland. |
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Data format | The vector digitised data set has been converted into several forms: - Original vector-digitised dataset
- Original vector dataset with soil boundaries interpolated through built up areas.
- Raster dataset 100m grid squares (with / without built up areas)
- Dominant soil in each one kilometre grid square (with / without built up areas)
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Data Path | Data are available from the Macaulay Institute under lease. |
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Creator or author | As for the paper version described in appendix B1. |
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Author credentials | As for the paper version described in appendix B1. |
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Contributor | |
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Spatial coverage | Data cover the whole of Scotland. |
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Time frame | As for the paper version described in appendix B1. |
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Spatial / temporal accuracy or precision | Accuracy of digitising is of minor contribution to the errors compared with the accuracy of drawing the original boundaries. |
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Data currency | As for the paper version described in appendix B1. |
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Archival material | As for the paper version described in appendix B1. |
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D1.2. Recording methods and standards
As for the paper version described in appendix B1.
B1.3 Recorded attributes
As for the paper version described in appendix B1.
B1.4 Quality factors
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