INSPIRE Strategic noise maps. Major roads

This is the results of the noise mapping (round 3) of the major roads carried for the EPA under EU Directive 2002/49/EC. The directive is implemented in Ireland by the Environmental Noise Regulations 2006 (SI 140/2006).

Alternate title: INSPIRE Strategic Noise Mapping of Major Roads 2015

Date (Creation): 2018-10-08

Date (Revision): 2023-11-09

Date (Publication): 2018-10-08

Citation identifier: EPA / AM.IE.EPA.NOISE_Road

Citation identifier: EPA / AM.NoiseRestrictionZone

Purpose: This dataset represents the first round of noise mapping with the aim of evaluating the size of population affected by environmental noise issues along the major roads in Ireland and to assist in the development a Noise Action Plan.

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency		gis@edenireland.ie	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

INSPIRE priority data set

Major roads (Noise Directive)

Spatial scope

National

General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus - Concepts, version 4.1.3

noise measurement
noise exposure plan
noise type
noise legislation
noise level
noise monitoring

Environmental Protection Agency

noise legislation
noise contours
noise decibels
noise action plan
road

Place

Ireland

Specific usage: Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units INSPIRE

User contact info

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency		gis@edenireland.ie	User

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: no limitations to public access

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: no conditions to access and use

Other constraints: CC BY 4.0

Other constraints: This layer is published under the terms of the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). [ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ]

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 50000

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Environment
Health

Supplemental Information: Report on all major roads, railways, airports and agglomerations (DF1 and DF5) http://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/367

Eionet Central Data Repository http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/ie/eu/noise/df5/2015/envxejiaw

More Information About Data http://www.epa.ie/monitoringassessment/noisemapping/

Download Data files https://gis.epa.ie/GetData/Download

View Data https://gis.epa.ie/EPAMaps/EnvironmentAndWellbeing

Unique resource identifier: EPSG:29902 (TM65 / Irish Grid))

Unique resource identifier: EPSG:4258 (ETRS89 geographical coordinates)

Distribution format

Name	Version
gml+xml	3.2

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency		info@epa.ie	Point of contact

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC Web Map Service	https://www.inspire.housing.gov.ie/geoserver/inspire_epa/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities	DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE View Service WMS
ATOM Syndication Format	https://epa-inspire-atom.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files/atomEPA_INSPIRE_Ireland.xml	DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE Download Service ATOM