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Coastal Overview Map [Eng only]

Summary

The Coastal Overview data layers identifies the lead authority for the management of discrete stretches of the English coast as defined by the Seaward of the Schedule 4 boundary of the Coastal Protection Act 1949. The data are intended as a reference for GIS users and Coastal Engineers with GIS capability to identify the responsible authority or whether the coast is privately owned. The information has been assigned from the following sources, listed in by preference: Shoreline Management Plans 1; Environment Agency’s RACE database; Consultation with Coastal Business User Group and Local Authority Maritime records where possible. A confidence rating is attributed based on where the data has been attributed from and the entry derived from the source data. The following data is intended as a reference document for GIS users and Coastal Engineers with GIS capability to identify the responsible authority and the assigned EA Coastal Engineer so as to effectively manage the coast for erosion and flooding. The product comprises 3 GIS layers that are based on the OS MasterMap Mean High Watermark and consists of the following data layers that are intended to be displayed as with the confidence factor that the information is correct. Coastal Overview Map [Polyline] –details the Lead Authority, EA Contact and other overview information for coast sections; Coastal Overview Map [Point] – shows the start point of the discrete stretch of coast and the lead authority; and Coastal Legislative Layer [Polyline] - represents the predominant risk; flooding or erosion, which are assigned to each section of the coastline.

Use limitation statement

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Attribution statement

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2016. All rights reserved.Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database rights

Use constraints

Special conditions:

  1. This Information may only be used by you either in accordance with conditions 2 and 3 or with condition 4 below and in either event in accordance with condition 5 below unless use is limited to use that is authorised by any statute or does not require a licence from us.
  2. You may use the Information:
  • for the purposes of a contract to do work for us, and for your internal use only in connection with that contract but this does not prevent you from passing it back to us or (subject to condition 2 below) to a subcontractor who complies with these conditions.
  1. This condition is applicable to contractor use as a result of the Information containing Ordnance Survey Data:
  • You will not supply the Information to any third party (not even to a sub contractor) unless we expressly and separately authorise this in writing as a variation of your licence.
  • The restrictions and obligations in the OS PSGA Licence (see condition 5 below), shall apply to you including where applicable Appendix 3 thereof in relation to any Royal Mail data. 4.1. You must only use the Information in a way that we have confirmed in writing to you supports our statutory functions, and 4.2. One or more of the following conditions must also be complied with as a result of the Information containing Ordnance Survey Data: • you have an Ordnance Survey Public Sector Use, Educational Use or Business Use licence for the same OS Data used and for the area of coverage as the Information and provide us with written confirmation of your eligibility under this paragraph, and/or • you will use the Information only to enable you to correspond or otherwise interact with us in connection with our environmental functions, and use under this paragraph will be internal only unless both we and Ordnance Survey agree otherwise in writing. You agree that by using the Information under this paragraph you are accepting that the terms of this licence will also act as a click acceptance of a licence with us on the terms set out in the Ordnance Survey PSGA Licence “Public Sector End User Licence” whereby we are the Licensor, you are the End User the “Supplied Data” means the Information, and/or • you are an emergency service, that is to say a person, body or entity involved in responding immediately to an emergency that is an unforeseen act or event beyond your reasonable control requiring you to respond urgently. You may use the Information only for the purposes of such response and provided that you advise us in writing within a month of the Information and geographical coverage you used, with the date and nature of the emergency and how the Information was needed. 5.1 “OS PSGA Licence” means the latest version of the Ordnance Survey Public Sector Geospatial Agreement Member Licence a copy of which is available on the Ordnance Survey website. 5.2. You must destroy all copies of the Information at the end of the contract or period of permitted use subject only to any retentions necessarily required by statute or otherwise by legal obligation or for archive purposes. This must be for the sole purpose of addressing a complaint or challenge from a regulator or the National Audit Office in relation to your use of the Information provided that such continued retention shall not continue beyond termination pursuant to condition 4.3 below 5.3 This licence shall terminate on 31/03/2030 or on earlier termination of our arrangement with Ordnance Survey. We will attempt to give you three months notice of such termination. 5.4 You agree, for the benefit of Ordnance Survey that they shall owe no liability to you whatsoever in relation to the Information. 5.5 if you make a supply of the Information to a third party in accordance with these conditions it must be only to a contractor or partner for the same purpose as our supply to you and you must make no charge that exceeds marginal costs of supply unless it is a statutory charge.
Technical information

Update frequency

biannually

Lineage

Geometry has been derived from Ordnance Survey MasterMap Topography’s Mean High Watermark.

Spatial information

Geographic extent

  • Latitude from: 49.943 to 55.816
  • Longitude from: -6.236 to 2.072
Metadata information

Language

English

Metadata identifier

85df5930-d465-11e4-8cf2-f0def148f590


Published by

Environment Agency

Contact publisher

Defra Data Services Forum

Dataset reference dates

Creation date

01 January 2009

Revision date

15 April 2014

Publication date

N/A

Period

  • From: 01 January 2009

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