The 'go to' organisation for Local Government improvement in Scotland

It was launched in 2016.

Data themes include planning, administrative boundaries, environmental, transport and community facilities.

It is developed, operated and managed by the Spatial Information Service.

Every local and national park authority provides data to the Spatial Hub where it is conflated into standardised and up-to-date national datasets.

SIS have also developed a series of different licences that enables data sharing with each sector or organisation.

This benefits local authorities by:

• Saving time, money and effort in preparing and publishing as it removes the need to develop their own portals to publish data.
• Reducing the resources needed to efficiently answer Freedom of Information requests about spatial data.
• Exposes data to a larger audience which increases the value of the data itself.

The benefits to wider society are:

• Access to consistent national datasets of local government data which can be  used for various purposes.
• The potential for innovation and new  business ideas, that could ultimately help improve public services and communities.

How to map a 20-minute neighbourhood: data and methods

The National Planning Framework 4 (NPF4) has introduced policy requirements related to 20-minute neighbourhoods and the concept of local living. This technical note provides step-by-step guidance on how to conduct a 20-minute neighbourhood network analysis using ArcGIS Pro. The analysis focuses on creating service areas around facilities commonly used in daily life and combining these service areas to assess the density of services within a given area. The final output is a map that highlights areas with varying levels of access to essential services within a 10-minute walking distance.

This package also includes ArcPy Scripts that you can use in your analysis.

Download 'How to map a 20-minute neighbourhood: data and methods'