As news abounds about Arctic Permafrost & Peatlands degrading faster than thought (Copilot), this may be a good time to bring back some Natural England and Environment Agency data under Open Government License (National Archives). The upshot is that returning peatlands to their original state is the biggest climate change mitigator in the UK detailed here & here: briefly, peatlands either degraded thru neglect or converted to farm land, not only shrinks & stops being floodwater catchment, but it converts carbon sinks through sphagnum moss into carbon emitters thru windborne dried peat. In other words, re-watering peatlands dwarf efforts from other mitigation of climate change (see sources at bottom).
Most of my Story Maps and Web Maps were lost, when I couldn't keep them on arcgis.com. That was because the significant amount of open data needed to be reposted, after cleaning it up as discussed at bottom here. That simply exceeded my volunteered geographer (VGI, Wikipedia) budget.
Also stopped posting megadata on Amazon Web Services (AWS, blog), as even 'tiny AWS instance' hosting cost exceeded VGI budgets.
As in my previous post on a very specific subject, I resorted to QGIS & QGIScloud to host datasets for free under 50 Mb. Intricate datasets described above, totalled 250Mb in vector format are best for GIS study (send comment below if interested). But the same, rasterized to the data resolution of 50 m., take an order of magnitude lass space: that tucks them in under the free-tier cloud hosting limit.
This is the result, with full Natural England documentation and shape files posted here and here respectively: all work is CC BY-SA 4.0 as per my blog footer; it's derived under Open Government License as atop this post. Again, please post questions in the Comment Section below.
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