Contours, spot levels and slope for a plot anywhere in Orkney Islands that the national LiDAR covers. Draw your boundary and see the ground in minutes.
Published Scottish LiDAR covers all of Orkney Islands. All of it comes from Orkney Islands Council LiDAR 2023, flown 2023 on a 0.5 m grid.
Of the 2 towns we have pages for here, Kirkwall sits lowest (median ground about 21.5 m above Ordnance Datum) and Stromness highest (about 36.9 m).
Stromness has the most ground steeper than 1 in 10 (26.4% of its area), Kirkwall the least (10.8%). Plots a street apart can still differ a lot.
Check a plot in Orkney Islands
| Council area | 1,015 km² |
|---|---|
| Inside published LiDAR tiles | 99.8% |
| Best survey | Orkney Islands Council LiDAR 2023, flown 2023, 0.5 m grid (99.7% of the area); typical ±0.20 m on open ground |
Shares are of the council's land area inside published DTM tiles on the Scottish Remote Sensing Portal, taking the best survey where they overlap (the same order reports use). Accuracy figures are from our own tests; see results by survey phase.
Each page shows the LiDAR coverage, ground levels, slope and mapped constraints for the town.
See a real example: Hillside plot by a burn, Strathtay (PDF).
| Full Site Report | £49 |
|---|---|
| Contours & CAD pack | £29 |
| Both | £59 |
Per plot up to 5 ha. The preview is free and needs no card. No VAT charged.
Yes. Published Scottish Government LiDAR covers about 99.8% of Orkney Islands. Surveys used: Orkney Islands Council LiDAR 2023, flown 2023.
On open ground in our tests, typical height error is ±0.20 m for Orkney Islands Council LiDAR 2023. Each report gives the figure for your site.
£49 for the Full Site Report, £29 for the Contours & CAD pack, or £59 for both, per plot up to 5 ha. The preview is free.
0.5 m contours and spot levels across your boundary, slope and the fall from side to side, cut and fill for a level platform, mapped constraints with sources, and DXF files for CAD.
It depends on what your designer or the planning authority asks for. The report gives ground levels and contours for the whole plot. If walls, drains, trees or boundary features need measuring on site, that's a job for a land surveyor.
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Council boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Local Authority Districts (May 2024), Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024. LiDAR: contains Scottish Government LiDAR data, Open Government Licence v3. See data licences.