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New Zealand gazetteer added to Marine Regions
Added on: 2018-10-22 17:09:12 by Claus, Simon
Over 1300 new undersea features from the New Zealand gazetteer of place names were added to Marine Regions. Furthermore, more than 600 existing features in the Marine Regions gazetteer were updated with new contexts, synonyms or improved coordinates. The New Zealand gazetteer holds all official names for geographic places and features within the jurisdiction of the New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB). ...New version of the intersect ‘Exclusive Economic Zones and IHO areas'
Added on: 2018-10-12 15:41:54 by Claus, Simon
Marineregions launches a new version of the IHO Sea Areas and a new version of the intersect product combining the Exclusive Economic Zones (v10) and IHO Sea areas (v3). ...Update of the GEBCO gazetteer of undersea features
Added on: 2018-10-05 09:43:11 by Oset Garcia, Paula
Marine Regions has completed its yearly update of the GEBCO gazetteer. ...Mineral rights areas from UK and Norway added to Marineregions
Added on: 2018-05-29 13:58:25 by Claus, Simon
Over 6,000 blocks and quads from the UK and Norway have been added to Marineregions, providing stable unique identifiers and geometries. ...New release: version 10 of the Maritime Boundaries
Added on: 2018-02-21 18:03:56 by Oset Garcia, Paula
MarineRegions.org is proud to launch version 10 of the Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase. ...Geo stack updated to latest stable versions
Added on: 2017-07-25 17:41:22 by Vanhoorne, Bart
The Geo stack of marineregions.org has been upgraded to the different latest versions.A new version of the IHO Seas has been published.
Added on: 2017-01-19 13:11:27 by De Hauwere, Nathalie
Since a more accurate version of the coastline was available, the shapefile containing the IHO Sea Areas has been updated. ...Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) added to the marineregions.org identifier (MRGID)
Added on: 2016-11-25 17:15:54 by Vanhoorne, Bart
To comply with Semantic Web technologies (RDF) and INSPIRE recommendations, we have added HTTP URI to the MRGID. This used to be a number only. ...New version of the Maritime Boundaries
Added on: 2016-10-21 10:40:00 by Claus, Simon
In this new release, Marine Regions updates the global Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) (version 9), and launches the completely new datasets for Territorial Seas (TS), Contiguous Zones (CZ), Internal Waters (IW) and Archipelagic Waters (AW). ...GeoNetwork updated to latest version (3.0)
Added on: 2016-06-01 17:09:47 by Vanhoorne, Bart
GeoNetwork is a catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources. It provides powerful metadata editing and search functions as well as an interactive web map viewer. ...GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names updated in Marine Regions
Added on: 2016-04-26 08:30:27 by De Hauwere, Nathalie
The GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN), which operates under IHO and IOC, maintains and makes available a digital gazetteer of the names and geographic position of features on the sea floor. The gazetteer is linked to Marine Regions, using OGC web services. In April 2016 the list was updated: 122 records were added and coordinates of 185 features have been updated.ACUF gazetteer of Undersea Features is now integrated in Marine Regions
Added on: 2014-12-01 16:58:04 by Oset, Paula
The Advisory Committee on Undersea Features (ACUF), maintained by the US Board on Geographic Names (BGN), works on standardization policy for names of undersea features and recommends official standard names based on proposals submitted by relevant authorities. A total of 5029 unique undersea features and 10201 names in multiple languages available from the ACUF gazetteer are now integrated in Marine Regions. ...GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names integrated in Marine Regions
Added on: 2014-09-26 09:06:14 by Claus, Simon
The GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN), operated under IHO and IOC, maintains and makes available a digital gazetteer of the names and geographic position of features on the sea floor. Their recently launched digital gazetteer is now linked with Marine Regions using OGC webservices. You can consult the georeferenced undersea features by selecting Sources: 'IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names'. Marine Regions is providing both accepted, synonym and previously accepted terms.List of Contourite Depositional Systems and Drifts updated.
Added on: 2014-08-14 10:32:54 by De Hauwere, Nathalie
The list of Contourite Depositional Systems and Drifts was extended in 2014. 81 new records of the place type Drift have been added based on the summary paper from Rebesco et al., 2014. ...GeoServer updated to v. 2.5, introducing NetCDF & WFS paging support
Added on: 2014-04-26 15:53:50 by Vanhoorne, Bart
The OGC backend of MarineRegions has been upgraded to the latest version (GeoServer 2.5)Marine Regions published in Marine Geodesy
Added on: 2014-04-01 13:17:07 by Claus, Simon
'Marine Regions: Towards a global standard for georeferenced marine names and boundaries' has been accepted for publication. The Author’s Accepted Manuscript of the article published in Marine Geodesy, 2014, is available online at the VLIZ library at http://www.vliz.be/en/catalogue?module=ref&refid=234589 ...A new version (V8) of the World EEZ shapefiles has been released
Added on: 2014-02-28 10:00:29 by Claus, Simon
A new version (V8) of the World EEZ shapefiles has been released. 17 boundaries are updated, including the recently agreed maritime boundary between Chile and Peru. The new version - including a change history - is available via the download page.National Geographic November issue using EEZ from Marineregions
Added on: 2013-10-30 10:32:58 by Claus, Simon
The latest National Geographic Magazine issue is using the EEZ boundaries from Marineregions in the article on Mapping a New America from Robert Ballard.Marine Regions Webservices launched
Added on: 2013-08-02 11:48:33 by Claus, Simon
As a user or developer you can now use the Marine Gazetteer webservices to feed your own application with the Marine Gazetteer standardized list of georeferenced marine place names and marine areas. Currently, we support both Restful and SOAP methods for accessing the services.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.[Add]
