Web Map Services (WMS) — UK geology datasets
The datasets below are made available as Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Services (WMS). View in compatible software.
They can also be accessed by websites that use a map-based interface to connect to WMS services, allowing data from different providers to be visualised spatially and compared.
E.g. OneGeology — dynamic digital geological map data for the world at a scale of about 1: 1 million. Access the data through the OneGeology Portal.
Terms of use:
These data are delivered under the terms of the Open Government Licence, subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced BGS materials: "Contains British Geological Survey materials © NERC [year]". Contact us if you create something new and innovative that could benefit others usingbgsdata@bgs.ac.uk
BGS data WMS services
Connect to the WMS format data services from the links below:
- British geology onshore digital maps
1:50 000 scale - UK onshore and offshore bedrock and superficial geology
1:625 000 scale - Hydrogeology
1:625 000 scale - Samples of high resolution ground stability data
1:50 000 scale - Soil data
From the NERC Soil Portal - GeoIndex datasets
Over 70 onshore and offshore layers including boreholes, earthquakes, landslides, fossils, active mines and quarries, rock samples, geochemistry and geophysics - Normal background concentrations of contaminants
Domain polygons for normal background concentrations (NBCs) of contaminants in English soils
