Information on NATMAP data products

More than 200 man years of fieldwork went into the creation of the National Soil Map. Redigitisation in 1999 resulted in a new vector data set with full urban soil linework and accurate registration to the OS 1:50,000 base (NATMAP vector). NATMAP vector is the flagship product of NSRI and displays the 300 mapped soil associations at a scale of 1:250,000.

From NATMAP vector, other digital products have been derived. There are 1, 2, and 5 km2 ‘gridded-vector’ reclassifications of NATMAP vector, named NATMAP 1000, 2000 and 5000 respectively. The newest product of the NATMAP range is NATMAP soilscapes. Having only 27 soil map units, NATMAP soilscapes is proving an increasingly popular dataset for a wide group of users. The aim of the NATMAP soilscapes reclassification and simplification of the NATMAP vector data is to provide extensive, applicable and understandable soil data to the non-soil scientist.

NATMAP data can be supplied for NUTS regions, catchments or other specified areas.

This page outlines the data contained within the following products.

NATMAP legend (*FREE with NATMAP vector)

NATMAP associations (*FREE with NATMAP vector)