The dataset contains polygons of soils of part northern Matamata County mapped at 1:50 000. The attributes contain the soil series and the soil classification. No analytical properties of the soil are included.
Source
The Soil Survey was carried out in 1984-89 by M. McLeod. DSIR Land Resources.
This map was prepared in 1992. It was digitised in 1999 and the data were stored in ArcGIS.
NZSC was determined in 2002.
Incidental error correction has been carried out as necessary.
Rights
These data were mapped at 1:50 000 and should not be used at scales greater than this.
Rights
As soil variabliity is usually very high, the polygons in this map are not necessarily pure and so may contain inclusions of other known, and variants of unknown soils.
Coverage
-38.019578 175.644815 -37.701699 175.936456
Format
Shapefile
Identifier
https://lris.scinfo.org.nz/layer/48177/
Language
eng
Subject
farming
Subject
environment
Subject
geoscientificInformation
Subject
Soil, Land Resource, Soil Conservation, Land Management, Land Planning
Subject
Matamata County, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand
