Building On Britain

Just nether 6% of the Great Britain is built on. More than one-half the nation is farmland too merely about a 3rd of all nation is natural (heath, moorland etc). You tin discovery how much of your local surface area is built on using the BBC's novel interactive map.

How Much of Your Area is Built On uses novel information on Great Britain nation use, which was derived from analyzing satellite imagery. Enter your place into the BBC's interactive too y'all tin discovery out how much of your local surface area is natural, farmland, greenish urban or built on. H5N1 map of your surface area shows which parts autumn into each of these iv categories of nation use. You are too shown the full per centum of nation inward your surface area which is given over to each of the iv categories too how that compares to the national average.

While 6% of the Great Britain is built upon exclusively 3.6% of America is dedicated to urban areas. You tin discovery out almost American nation role inward Bloomberg's Here's How America Uses its Land.


If y'all alive exterior of the Great Britain or the USA thus y'all tin role the OSM Landuse Landcover map to larn an thought of the dissimilar percentages of nation role on your area. This map uses OpenStreetMap information to map land-use too demo the per centum of dissimilar types of land-use merely about the globe.

The OSM Landuse Landcover map uses contrasting colors to demo how areas bring been tagged inward OpenStreetMap for land-use too land-cover. If y'all zoom inward on a place on the map y'all tin come across how dissimilar areas bring been tagged for nation role too nation cover. H5N1 dynamic pie nautical chart too provides an overview of the percentages of dissimilar types of nation role inward the electrical flow map view.

Obviously the information on the map is exclusively equally accurate too consummate equally the information inward OpenStreetMap.