Local Nature Recovery Strategy: Local habitat map

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To access the local habitat map, you need to click this tile on the LNRS web page. You'll then find a little bit more information about the map and you need to click this button to search the map itself.

Once that loads up, you should find a help guide loads and there's a number of different pages within the help guide to provide information about how to use the map. You can click these arrows here and here to navigate between the help guide and you can read the information and scroll as well.

There is a contact detail for the local nature recovery strategy there if you'd like to get in contact and to close the help guide, you can press this X in the top right or this letter i icon will reopen and close that help guide as well if you'd like to see the information again.

So once closed, you should then be able to see the network produced by the local nature recovery strategy. These areas that are mapped and have different habitat actions recommended within them. So as you zoom in, you can either scroll or you can use this plus and minus icon.

And the network will become more clear and if you scroll in a bit further then you'll start to see this network will change from 1 green area into a number of different colours and those colours will show the different types of actions being recommended. So typically you'll be able to see some of the rivers showing up in blue.

And other actions with different colours, but you don't need to know all the colours as you can click on any of the areas to see which actions are being recommended.
So say for example, you're interested in an area around Leafield. You could actually type that in here as well. It's another way to.

Search you type what you need into the search bar. You can click on it and once that result comes back, you just need to click it again and then it will actually take you to the location that you're looking for.

So if I was interested in a site around here to look at what the recommended actions are, you can move around by clicking and dragging and then you can zoom into this site. Sometimes it can be tricky to tell what's on the ground using this. The map that's underneath this, and sometimes it's easier to use imagery or satellite. So by clicking on the four, the four squares in this icon on the right called Base Map Gallery. You can turn on imagery and if you click that.

You'll see the imagery load there.

If you want to turn off any of the information showing up on the map so that you can navigate to the right site, you can click on those eye icons there and that will turn off the data or hide it so that you can get a better view of what's on the ground.

So if I'm interested in, say, this parcel here for example, could zoom in a bit further, make sure I know where I'm looking at, and then I can turn the LNRS data back on and then I can click on the site in question and see what the recommendations are. So clicking there I can see a recommendation to create areas of calcareous species rich grassland and it shows that there's one of five, so there's other recommendations on what actions could be taken here as well.

So there's also a recommendation to create new varied ponds in suitable locations, to create flower rich grasslands that are suitable with enough violets for dark green fritillary to create areas of habitat containing a matrix of other habitat types. So a mix of woodland, scattered trees, scrub or grassland as well.

And finally, a recommendation that says don't forget you can use the LNRS documents, either the habitat actions or the species priorities list, to see which other actions you could also take on that site if they were suitable for the site. So you can click on either of those links and that will open the documents for you there as well.
So those are the recommendations for this site in particular, and if you wanted to export them to use them yourself, you need to open up this icon here. If you hover over it, it will say PM layer area query. And it has a sort of pin within another circle. Once that opens, you need to click on this icon here and you'll see it highlights, which means you can now draw around an area.

So if I'm interested in this field, parcel here you start by clicking your first point. Move your mouse, click again, move click and then when you're at your last point you need to double click to consolidate the shape there. So it's now searching for all of the actions that are mapped within that area that I've drawn.

So if you'd like to read them before you download it or use it for yourself, you can open that up and you can see them in here. So 75, opening that up and scrolling down, the recommendation is about restoring biodiversity around a heritage asset there in a manner that's complementary to the archaeology of the heritage element on that site. And then, if you wanted to read what the other recommendations are, you can read through each of those as well.

So once you've got that and you're happy, you can then export that data within the yellow area by clicking this button, either as a JSON, a CSV, or a GeoJSON file and you can click on any of those to get that ready.

If you need to draw an area again, then you can click this bin icon to clear that area. Click this again and you could just draw right around a small area there. Double click.
And it will bring you up information about what's mapped there. So we can clear that and close this one down.

And that is a introduction on how to use the map data and if you've got other questions, do feel free to get in touch and we can always produce more videos on specific elements if there’s any appetite for those. Thank you.