About Marine Regions
Marine Regions is a standard list of marine georeferenced place names and areas. It integrates and serves geographic information from the VLIMAR Gazetteer and the MARBOUND database and proposes a standard of marine georeferenced locations, boundaries and regions.
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Statistics
28,814 marine georeferenced places
36,079 marine place names
9,532 polygons of geographic places
12 marine geographic regional/global classifications
Maritime Boundaries (EEZ) of the world
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Marine Natura 2000 sites available!
Added on: 2013-05-27 14:29:04 by Claus, Simon | | The boundaries of the marine and coastal Natura 2000 sites, representing an ecological network of protected areas for Europe are now accessible from marineregions.org. The sites are integrated into the marine gazetteer. Selection criteria used when defining a 'marine' site, was by checking if the site falls (partly) within the Exclusive Economic Zone of the country, based on the version 7 of the high resolution EEZ GIS cover. Currently 2894 marine Natura 2000 sites are available. The GIS boundaries of these sites, defined by the EU Habitat and Bird directives are provided to Marine Regions in real time through a webservice developed by the European Environmental Agency. EEA map services are available here. |
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The UNESCO Marine World Heritage Sites available through Marine Regions
Added on: 2013-03-14 12:49:27 by Claus, Simon | | 46 Marine World Heritage Sites, covering ΒΌ of all marine protected areas on the planet are now available through Marine Regions. They are integrated into the marine gazetteer, can be downloaded from the download page, and are available as a WFS service. [Read more] |
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OSPAR Boundaries available from Marine Regions
Added on: 2013-02-13 14:10:36 by Claus, Simon | | The OSPAR boundaries are now available from Marine Regions. They can be downloaded from the download page, are available as a WFS service and are integrated into the marine gazetteer. [Read more] |
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Launch marineregions.org
Added on: 2012-11-20 09:30:13 by Claus, Simon | | We are happy to launch marineregions.org, a list of marine georeferenced place names and areas. The objective of marineregions.org is to work towards a global standard of georeferenced marine names. [Read more] |
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A new version (V7) of World EEZ shapefiles has been released
Added on: 2012-11-20 09:24:24 by Claus, Simon | | A new version (V7) of the World EEZ shapefiles has been released. The shapefiles - currently only in low resolution version - are available via the download page. |
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