1 Topic by Gordon Barker

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Topic: Querying records by location

Hi

Asking at the NFBR conference about querying records on the Atlas from a boundary e.g. a SSSI, I was told it was possible. However I can't work out how to do it. My assumption was that it would be under LOCATIONS > EXPLORE BY PREDEFINED AREA, but I only have options of National Park, OS 100km square and LERC boundaries. Am I missing something?

Gordon

Gordon Barker
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2 Reply by TeresaF

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Re: Querying records by location

Have you tried starting from spatial.nbnatlas.org? (I can't remember how you get to it from the main atlas so you might not know it exists!)
SSSIs are in the Add to map - Layers section.
You should also be able to import your own boundary, but I haven't experimented much so don't know how much is and isn't working...

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3 Reply by Gordon Barker

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Re: Querying records by location

Thanks Teresa,

looks like you can get at it from Analyse from the top strip, although it's not as easy to get back. Just need to wait for the boundaries I need to be added then (looks like I could add for myself but would be more useful if added for everyone and I could run a query against the object ID)

Gordon Barker
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4 Reply by charliebarnes

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Re: Querying records by location

There's another thread about boundaries I think - the Scottish Atlas has them all (well, the Scottish ones), but The Atlas only has a few at the moment.

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5 Reply by chrisjohnson

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Re: Querying records by location

Atlas Scotland has Scottish SSSIs under Location tab. Clicking on the map doesn't work, but if you know the name of the SSSI you can access the records. A really useful tool.

Christine