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Land Cover Map 2015 (1km dominant aggregate class) Web Map Service
This web map service (WMS) is the 1km raster, dominant aggregate class version of the Land Cover Map 2015 (LCM2015) for Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It shows the aggregate habitat class with the highest percentage cover in each 1km x 1km pixel. The 10 aggregate classes are broad groupings of the 21 target classes, based on the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) Broad Habitats and which encompass the entire range of UK habitats. The aggregate classes group some of the more speciali
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- dominant aggregate land cover class (10 aggregate classes, grouping 21 target classes)
- Coverage docs-verified
- Great Britain and Northern Ireland · 2015 (LCM2015)
- Resolution docs-verified
- 1 km x 1 km pixel (raster)
- Formats docs-verified
- WMS · JPEG · PNG · TIFF
- Access docs-verified
- Licence terms and conditions apply (catalogue lists Non-Open Government Licence); no authentication listed; copyright notice and citation required
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Broad habitat context and desk-study screening for ecological constraints on GB and NI sites · Land cover baseline for surface-type or runoff assumptions in FRA and drainage desk studies · Regional habitat mapping as background for BNG baseline reviews
- Audience llm-inferred
- ecologists · environmental consultants · planners · GIS analysts · hydrologists
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Dominant-class raster: minor habitats within each 1 km pixel are not shown · Based on the 2015 land cover map, so it is not current land cover · Only 10 aggregate classes, coarser than the 21 target classes · Licence terms apply; the citation and copyright notice must be used · WMS delivers map images; no underlying attribute data is described
- Licence
- Non-Open government licence
- Authentication
- Unknown — review source docs
- GitHub stars
- Unknown
- Last commit
- Unknown
- Last successful page check
- 16/10/2026
- Page health
- healthy
- Package
- Not recorded
- Verification
- Not independently verified
Provenance & evidence
Listed in ukceh-eidc public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · research sweep: sweep-2026-10-16 (ukceh-eidc)