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Insight User Guide: GIS product features

This guide is designed to provide answers to the most frequently asked questions about our Groundsure Insight in GIS format. 

The Groundsure Insight, GIS format, comprises of historical maps (all scales) as GeoTIFFs, and a GeoPackage containing data layers for the Enviro and Geo portions. For guidance on how to load a GeoPackage in various see our Knowledge article: How to load a GeoPackage

Benefits of GIS over PDF formats

  • Viewing ability - we recommend purchasing GIS products for large or unusually shaped sites as they offer an unrivaled perspective and can be overlain with existing data (see third party T&C’s for information on best practice https://www.groundsure.com/third-party-provider-conditions/).
  • Additional buffer options - unlike our PDF offering, the GIS product is cookie cut to your bespoke site specifications. An additional buffer can be applied at the point of order by clicking Define map export on the map and using either the slide or typing in the required buffer distance.
  • We understand that GIS is becoming a more popular format for both our clients and end users. Providing our product as GeoPackage means your output can be more easily transferred to client’s systems and introduced into collaborative data environments.

Ordering GIS data

  • The Insight GIS data is available to order from Groundsure.io
  • Groundsure assumes the GIS product licence required is for a single user and for use up to 12 months (continued usage past this point will require a renewal and additional users may be subject to a change in fee).
  • The data is ordered as a GeoPackage
  • In PDF form you are entitled to use the Product in respect of the Site only and the Product may not be used or relied on in respect to adjacent or nearby sites. In GIS format you can use the data for your internal business use within the specified annual period(s) of the licence.

Data not currently included in our GIS offering

There are some data sets that we provide a summary for in our PDF reports that we are not able to provide in the GIS version of the data due to a variety of reasons. The datasets that are referenced in the Insight PDF but are currently not available to license in GIS are: 

  • Environment Agency/Natural Resources Wales (Groundwater, Surface Water and Potable Abstractions) 
  • Ambiental flood data 
  • Stantec (PBA) Natural and Mining Cavities .
  • Experian Catalist - Current and Recent Petrol Sites
  • National Grid - Electricity Cables and Gas Pipelines
  • Water Networks (part of OS MasterMap) 
  • JPB mining areas

Certain Groundsure land use datasets may only be made available up to a certain site size, due to the unique nature of the information.

Copyright statements /T&C's

Please refer to the licence statements for third party providers in the T&C’s on our website
www.groundsure.com/groundsure-standard-terms-and-conditions-april-2023/ these vary depending on the supplier.

Copyright statements are included in the GeoPackage or can found at https://www.groundsure.com/third-party-provider-conditions. For more information contact your account manager or email insights@groundsure.com.