Public Angling Estate Water Bodies of Northern Ireland

Polygon data details the water bodies within Northern Ireland's Public Angling Estate, derived from Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland (OSNI) Fusion layers. The dataset likely contains fishery information as outlined in the Inland Fisheries 'Short Guide to Fisheries in the Public Angling Estate of Northern Ireland'. It is structured as a geospatial feature class linked to an attribute table via a relationship class.

Use Cases

• Mapping fishing locations based on polygon water body data.
• Analyzing fishery types (e.g., coarse, game) across the Public Angling Estate.
• Planning conservation or access improvements using the geospatial layer.
• Integrating fishery data with other environmental datasets via the TM65 Irish Grid coordinate system.

Strengths

• Data is derived from authoritative Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI) Fusion layers.
• Cross-platform presence on uk_data and eu_open_data indicates established use and importance.
• The dataset is linked to a detailed attribute table ('PAE_OSNIFusion_Feb2019') via a relationship class.

Limitations

• Critical metadata is missing: no column names, row counts, or file sizes are provided by any source.
• The data source is from February 2019, which may limit its currency for recent changes.
• One platform lists a last updated date of 2026-05-20, which is a future date and suggests a potential metadata error.

Provenance

Source

Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI) Fusion layers, processed by Inland Fisheries/DAERA.

Collection Method

Polygons derived from the February 2019 release of OSNI Fusion 'Stand Water Polygon' and 'Water Course Polygon' layers.

Time Range

Snapshot from February 2019.

Freshness

2026-05-20 (from uk_data platform, but this is a future date and may be an error); underlying data is from February 2019.

Geography

Northern Ireland.