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Map Layers

Explore

To explore recreation welfare values and estimated visits, either by individual sites or by region, switch on one of the selectable layers ...
Select by ...

Select by sites in ...


You can select sites or regions on the map one at a time or by dragging a box around them by holding down the CTRL key.

Advanced Filter

To narrow your results to sites of a particular type, designation and land cover use the checkboxes in the lists below ...

Select all sites that contain:

Type






Designation











Land cover

Select All
Managed



Natural




Water


You narrowed your results to sites of:

Type:

Designations:

Land covers:

Alter site characteristics

To explore how recreation welfare values and estimated visits change when site characteristics are altered, switch on the selectable layer and choose a site ...

Select travel cost calculation method:

Crude Approx. (quick):
Good Approx. :
Exact (slow) :

To alter the size of the site enter a new area


Expand list to alter current land covers (ensure they sum to 100% and use only whole numbers)

Land cover







2. Natural %










3. Water Margin (metres)




4. Other

Playground


River Water Quality

High Water Quality:
Low Water Quality:

Beach Water Quality

High Water Quality:
Low Water Quality:

Create a new site

To estimate the recreation value and visits for a potential site ...

(1) Is the new site an area or path?

(2) Do you want to draw a site outline or mark the site central point?






Enter area/length manually for a marker

(3) Select travel cost calculation method:

Crude Approx. (quick):
Good Approx. :
Exact (slow) :

(4) Enter Land cover percentages (ensure they sum to 100% and use only whole numbers)

Land cover







2. Natural %










3. Water Margin (metres)




4. Other

Playground


River Water Quality

High Water Quality:
Low Water Quality:

Beach Water Quality

High Water Quality:
Low Water Quality:

Create a 5-by-5 gridded heatmap of potential locations

Choose the grid size (in metres), we recommend values between 1,000 and 10,000

Warning creation of the heatmap takes up to 2 minutes to process.

Batch create a number of new sites.

Please ensure that your csv file follows the template csv file and then upload your file using the browse button.

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Select travel cost calculation method:

Crude Approx. (quick):
Good Approx. :
Exact (slow) :

Recreation Sites

Areas

allotments Allotment

cemetery Cemetery

country_park Country Park

golf Golf

nature Nature

parks Park

woods Wood

Paths

paths Path

access Access Point

Beaches

woods Beach

Land cover

agriculture Agriculture

allotment Allotment

built_up Built-Up

cemetery Cemetery

coastal Coastal

fen_marsh Fen Marsh

formal_garden Formal Garden

golf Golf

managed_grass Managed Grass

moors_heath Moors Heath

mountain Mountain

natural_grass Natural Grass

parking Parking

playground Playground

rock Rock

saltmarsh Saltmarsh

sports Sports Pitch

woods pasture Wood Pasture

cemetery Woods

Water

estuary Estuary

lake Lake/Reservoir

river River/Canal

seaside Seaside

Site Designation

allotments National Park

NTrail National Trail

country_park AONB

woods Heritage Coast

golf Open Access (CROW)

nature National Nature Reserve

parks Local Nature Reserve

woods SSSI

allotments Natura 2000 Site

cemetery Ramsar Wetland

country_park Nature Improvement Area

golf Ancient Woodland

nature Country Park

parks Historic Park/Garden

woods Millennium/Doorstep Green

Points of Interest

allotments Archaeology

cemetery Historic

country_park Playground

golf Scenery

nature Viewpoint

Regions

msoa MSOA

local_authority Local Authority

catchment Catchment

Welfare Values (£ per year)

low Less than £30,000 (Low)

low2 £30,000 to £150,000

low3 £150,000 to £500,000

low4 £500,000 to £1 Million

high2 £1 Million to £5 Million

high3 £5 Million to £10 Million

high4 £10 Million to £20 Million

high5 Greater than 20 Million (High)

low Less than £50,000 (Low)

low2 £50,000 to £300,000

low3 £300,000 to £1 Million

low4 £1Million to £5 Million

high2 £5 Million to £20 Million

high3 £20 Million to £50 Million

high4 £50 Million to £100 Million

high5 Greater than £100 Million (High)

low Less than £100,000 (Low)

low2 £100,000 to £500,000

low3 £500,000 to £2 Million

low4 £2 Million to £10 Million

high2 £10 Million to £50 Million

high3 £50 Million to £100 Million

high4 £100 Million to £300 Million

high5 Greater than £300 Million (High)

Current Site Information

New Site Information

Altered Site Information

To see information CLICK on a recreation site or spatial area on the map.

The information will appear in this box.


Visitor Origin

Select travel cost calculation method:

Crude Approx. (quick):
Good Approx. :
Exact (slow) :

Set minimum number of visits to display. For example, a minimum visits of 10 will fetch data for every LSOA that has 10 or more visits for your chosen site.



Getting Started...

Click 'Map Layers' to show or hide a variety of map layers (including background layers, recreational sites, land cover, designation, points of interest and regions).

Click 'Explore Sites' to get detailed information on the economic value and visitation of recreation sites

Click 'Alter Sites' to change the characteristics of existing sites

Click 'Create Sites' to create a new recreation site.

Outdoor Recreation Valuation Tool
(ORVal: Version 2.0)

Developed by the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP) at The University of Exeter.
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With funding from Defra Defra_logo


Important: Version 2.0 Update.

The values and visits presented in ORVal version 2.0 are from a series of significant advances in the sophistication of the statistical model that underpins the ORVal tool. For example, ORVal now models choices over the transport mode used to get to recreation sites.

The predictions reported by ORVal version 2.0 are prefered to those provided by version 1.0 though users can still access the version 1.0 estimates at: Version 1.0.

For full details on additional functionality see the new user guide and for full details on the new modelling see the new technical report, both documents can be found in the 'Help & Docs' section.

ORVal reports values and visit estimates for existing and new greenspaces that are derived from a sophisticated model of recreational demand in England and Wales. These numbers are predictions of a model and not actual counts of visits to a particular greenspace or actual measures of the welfare which that greenspace provides.

While the model captures many important features that influence the value and visitation to greenspace it is not able to account for each park's unique characteristics. Rather, the figures provided by ORVal should be interpreted as indicating what we might expect for a typical greenspace with the given features in this location accounting for the availability of other greenspace and the characteristics of local population.


Day, B. H., and G. Smith (2018). Outdoor Recreation Valuation (ORVal) User Guide: Version 2.0, Land, Environment, Economics and Policy (LEEP) Institute, Business School, University of Exeter.

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