UK Mining Remediation Authority Geospatial Data Catalogue

A bi-annual catalogue of geospatial datasets from the UK's Mining Remediation Authority, formerly the Coal Authority. The index provides core information on datasets covering England, Wales, and Scotland and is made available under the OGL-UK-3.0 license. It is part of a collaborative Geo6 initiative to simplify discovery of geospatial data.

Use Cases

• Discover geospatial datasets for environmental risk assessment based on the catalogue's metadata.
• Identify data sources for land safety and subsidence analysis related to historical mining.
• Link to underlying datasets for community support and planning in affected regions.
• Perform meta-analysis of UK geospatial data availability across the Geo6 organizations.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized Geo6 initiative for simplified data discovery.
• Explicitly covers England, Wales, and Scotland.
• Update frequency is defined as bi-annual or sooner.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Mining Remediation Authority (formerly Coal Authority)

Collection Method

Produced as part of the Geospatial Commission's Geo6 collaboration.

Freshness

Bi-annual or sooner, if required.

Geography

England, Wales, Scotland