The web site was structured to allow additional or updated layers to be added with the minimum of effort. The map update process is simplified through a map layer interface that is driven by a layer database. This single database also controls copyright, metadata, layer guidance notes, layer grouping, usage warning messages, popup information templates and map template production. The site provides a highly functional interface for publishing all forms of marine data relevant to the marine planning process and which can be readily expanded to meet future needs.

The web site was also setup to enable users to comment on the published data sets or on specific map features. All comments are stored in a database from which the data can be downloaded to a desktop comment database for further analysis and processing.

Further information from Crispin Flower.

This application helps keen anglers keep track of their season, while also providing analysis and high quality data to the biologists at the Scottish Fisheries Co-ordination Centre and Rivers Trusts, to help manage the waters sustainably. The collection of diary and catch data can be searched and analysed in various ways, with fully interactive mapping. The site was built within a Content Management System to allow the project partners to update the content.

In order to determine the sustainability of Motorised Recreational Vehicle routes across a large part of mid-Wales a large body of existing digital information had to be collated and processed to a common format. The information related to soils, topography, ecological and archaeological interest and statutory designations. An important consideration was the effect of vehicular use on 'tranquillity' necessitating the creation of 'noise' or 'tranquillity' maps for the Cambrian Mountains region. Several hundred kilometres of routes and roads were surveyed and photographed to record the physical robustness and condition of vehicular routes. All data were processed and analysed to inform practical management and information was also published using interactive web mapping.

Further information is available from Kathryn Steemson.

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Further information from Kathryn Steemson.