Spatial resources

Maps & soil types

The new 1:250 000 categorical National Soil Map, individual soil groups, terrain products and downloadable GIS resources.

Current map access

View first. Download what you need.

The first phase will provide clear map previews and downloads of images, PDFs, GIS files and explanatory material. Interactive mapping can be added later.

ConfirmedAll National Soil Map file types may be published. Source files, projections, legends and reuse details are still required.

Classification

Individual soil groups

The presentation identifies the following soil groups for individual map products.

  • Arenosols
  • Calcisols
  • Cambisols
  • Durisols
  • Fluvisols
  • Gleysols
  • Gypsisols
  • Histosols
  • Luvisols
  • Leptosols
  • Regosols
  • Solonchaks
  • Solonetz
  • Technosols
  • Vertisols

Indexed resources

Map collections