About our Coal Mining Information and Data
Both the interactive GIS/map viewer and associated Web Mapping Services illustrate selected coal mining information around your area of interest extracted from the national coal mining database.
Information about this data can be found in two forms, a summary description of each data layer and more technical metadata:
Coal Mining Reporting Area
Development High Risk Area
Surface Coal Resource Area
The Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE)
The Coal Authority has a commitment towards transparency, the sharing of spatial information and the use of standards. We are currently working towards
INSPIRE compliance for our metadata and web mapping services and our statement of compliance will be documented here once this has been completed.
INSPIRE is a Directive passed by the European Commission, the executive body of the EU, to establish a European-wide spatial data infrastructure (SDI). Its goal is for an Internet-accessible infrastructure of technologies and permissions to tie European geospatial information producers and users together into a single geospatial information-sharing community to improve decision making and operations in service of a productive and sustainable Europe.
Terms and Conditions of Use.