Scotland’s environment web partners have produced a range of useful maps that will help you find trusted and authoritative data.

Air

Scottish Air Quality: Air quality monitoring - Interactive map to explore different Scottish air quality monitoring sites and see detailed site information and the latest pollution measurements.

Habitat and species

Scottish Forestry: Map viewer - Explore and discover information about Scotland’s woodlands and forests.

Forestry Commission Scotland: Find a forest - Use this map to find a forest near you that cater to a range of outdoor interests and activities

National Biodiversity Network: NBN atlas Scotland - Search for species recordings within your local area.

Horticulture Magazine - Japanese Knotweed Map - Search for species recordings within your local area.

Land

Scotland’s soils: Maps - part of Scotland's environment web, a range of different maps providing data about Scotland’s soils.

People and the environment

Scottish Government: Scotland heat map - An interactive and simplified version of the full Scotland heat map. Business, developers, housing associations and communities can find out about the heat demand and supply opportunities. Visit Scottish Government to find out more information about Scotland heat map.

Historic Environment Scotland: Historic Land-Use Assessment MapHLAMap - Compare modern-day land use and past land use across Scotland using this interactive online map.

Historic Environment Scotland: Past map - Locate details of archaeological and historic sites held in Scotland’s national and local historic environment records.

Scottish Coastal Archaeology and the Problem of Erosion (SCAPE): Scotland’s coastal heritage at risk - Coastal erosion is a natural process, but surveys have shown that thousands of archaeological sites and historic remains are threatened with destruction.

Scottish Government: Scotland’s noise maps - Provides information about environmental noise to the public – as required by the Environmental Noise (Scotland) Regulations 2006

Water

Marine Scotland: National Marine Plan Interactive (NMPI) - Designed to assist in the development of national and regional marine planning. Visit Marine Scotland to find out more information about NMPi

SEPA: Flood maps - Maps show areas which are likely to flood from rivers, the sea and surface water. Visit SEPA to find out more information about flood maps.


This page was updated on 07 Jun 2019

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