Marine Gazetteer web services
As a user or developer you can use the Marine Gazetteer webservices to feed your own application with the Marine Gazetteer standardized list of georeferenced marine place names and marine areas.
Available methods:
- getGazetteerRecordsByName
- getGazetteerRecordsByNames
- getGazetteerRecordsByType
- getGazetteerRecordsBySource
- getGazetteerRecordByMRGID
- getGazetteerRelationsByMRGID
- getGazetteerWMSes
- getGazetteerRecordsByLatLong
- getGazetteerTypes
- getGazetteerSources
- getGazetteerNamesByMRGID
RESTful service
REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is a simple stateless architecture that generally runs over HTTP.SOAP service
SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a way for a program running in one kind of operating system (such as Windows 2008) to communicate with a progam in the same or another kind of an operating system (such as Linux) by using the World Wide Web's Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and its Extensible Markup Language (XML) as the mechanisms for information exchange. Examples:- SOAP
- REST
Additional web services
Apart from these SOAP and RESTful Marine Gazetteer web services, the data and information can also be retrieved through OGC services, an R package and GeoRSS.OGC web services
Marine Regions provides WMS, WFS and CSW capabilities for several of its data products (e.g. maritime boundaries).For more information, please consult the OGC services page.
R package: mregions
rOpenSci has developed an R package for the above services.More information: https://docs.ropensci.org/mregions/reference/
