Open Data Hub

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Accessing our data

To make the most of the Open Data Hub you'll need access to Geographic Information System (GIS) software. You can then:

visualise and analyse the data
combine it with your own data or data you've sourced from other organisations

Data includes:

Scottish Forestry administrative boundaries
Forestry Grant Scheme options and claims
Forestry Grant Scheme target and eligibility areas
plans and felling
a range of surveys and inventories

The portal gives you the opportunity to explore data in more detail than is possible in the Scottish Forestry Map Viewer.

Scottish Forestry Map Viewer

Looking for woodland creation schemes?

We don't capture woodland creation pre-application cases in a structured way that can be shared.

All woodland creation that has been approved and claimed are available in the Open Data Hub.

When woodland creation pre-application cases are at the appropriate stage of their development, they will appear on the public register.

Other sources of spatial data

The Scottish Government provide a data hub where you can:

find, share and reuse spatial data provided by Scottish public sector organisations
explore the data by INSPIRE theme, topic and geography

Explore Scotland’s catalogue of spatial data (spatialdata.gov.scot)

There is a also wide range of additional data related to forestry in Scotland and across Great Britain from a number of organisation including Forest Research and Forestry and Land Scotland. This includes the National Forest Inventory and the National Forest Estate.

Discover more public forestry open GIS Data (Forestry Commission England Open Data)

Contact us

Any questions about using the Open Data Hub?

Use our contact form to talk to the GIS team.

Accessing our data

Looking for woodland creation schemes?

Other sources of spatial data

Contact us

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