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Land Cover Map 2024 25m web map service (WMS)
This is a web map service (WMS) for the Land Cover Map 2024 at 25-metre resolution. The map presents the and surface classified into 21 UKCEH land cover classes, based upon Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats.
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- land cover classes (21 UKCEH classes, based on Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats) · WMS map layer
- Coverage docs-verified
- Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Resolution docs-verified
- 25 m spatial resolution
- Formats docs-verified
- WMS
- Access docs-verified
- Web map service; licence terms and conditions apply (Non-Open Government Licence per catalogue metadata); no API key listed. Copyright notice 'Based upon LCM2024 © UKCEH 2025' required.
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Land cover context layer for FRA catchment and site-setting maps · Broad-habitat baseline screening for BNG pre-assessment · Surface cover context for drainage strategy and runoff discussions · Background land cover mapping for ecological and planning reports
- Audience llm-inferred
- flood consultants · drainage engineers · ecologists · planners · GIS analysts
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Licence terms apply; the UKCEH copyright notice must be shown and the map cited in publications · Delivered as a WMS for display in GIS; raw raster download is not confirmed by the docs · Categorical land cover only, with no stated accuracy or confidence figures in the docs · No update frequency or rate limits stated
- 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)