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Downloading Risk of Flooding from Surface Water (RoFSW) data

Created: 31 October 2023

RoFSW data can be found by searching in the DSP. Open the required data record, within the Data and Supporting Information section, under Data Services and downloaded by area of interest select ROFSW Survey Download to open the link to the Defra Risk of Flooding from Surface Water Data Download map interface.

Searching and Downloading interface

Navigation tools

Zoom in, zoom out, reset map view

Layer pop up

Previews the available layers in the map visually to explore the data without affecting which layers you will download. The layer list is displayed in a hierarchy that can be toggled on/off.

Download pop up

Select your area - you can draw a polygon or upload a shapefile.

Draw Polygon

Delete polygon

Get Available tiles - Allows you to view the data available for download.

Downloading data

Select desired AOI by either drawing a polygon on the map interface or uploading a shapefile. Once Get available tiles has been selected, a list of available titles will be generated from you to chose from and download in zip file format. Due to the size of this data, it is downloadable as pre-defined zip files containing tiles of basic RoFSW data.

There may be a delay of up to a couple of minutes while the data is prepared before you download starts.