Scheduled Monuments are Scotland’s nationally important historic monuments and sites. They are: "spread across the country and span around 8,000 years of human settlement." Scheduling is carried out by Historic Environment Scotland (HES), with its aim being: "to preserve our most significant sites and monuments as far as possible in the form in which they have been …
Scotland’s Historic Heritage
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) enables public access to a wealth of information on Scotland's historic environment via a number of websites and as open data. In particular, the National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) is made available via Canmore which contains: "more than 320,000 records and 1.3 million catalogue entries for archaeological sites, buildings, …
Scotland’s Data Zones
There are 6976 Data Zones in Scotland. Data Zones are: “the core geography for making available small area statistics across most social topics including information about benefits, education, health and the labour market." They allow users to: "readily (and regularly) bring together information from various sources on a common small area geography.” Purpose of Data …
US Central Command and Israel
Since the beginning of Unified Command Plans (UCP) in 1946, the US Department of Defence (DOD) divides the world up into geographic combatant commands (GCC). Currently there are seven GCCs, six on Earth and one in Space. Each has a defined area of responsibility (AOR) which at a minimum is reviewed every two years. A …
Broad Rental Market Areas of Scotland
Scotland is divided into 18 Broad Rental Market Areas (BRMAs) with a BRMA defined as an area: "within which a person could reasonably be expected to live having regard to facilities and services for the purposes of health, education, recreation, personal banking and shopping, taking account of the distance of travel, by public and private …
