Marine Regions OGC Web Services

The Marine Regions team at VLIZ provides access to several data products in common GIS formats such as geopackage, shapefile, geojson or kml. Some of these are developed by the Marine Regions team. For example, the Maritime Boundaries which include all the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea; or the sea areas delimited in the document "Limits of Oceans Seas, Special Publication No. 23" published by the IHO in 1953.

When possible, Marine Regions also offers access to these products following the specifications of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), such as Web Feature Services (WFS), Web Map Services (WMS) or Catalogue Service for the Web (CSW).

There is a wrapper in the R programming language for these services together with the Gazetteer webservices in the form of an R package: 'mregions', developed by the rOpenSci consortium and maintained by the Marine Regions team.

Date ( Creation): 2005-01-01

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) - Marine Regions Team

Keywords: data management

Keywords: biogeography

Keywords: coordinate reference systems

Keywords: marine

Keywords: gazetteer service

Keywords: territory mapping

Keywords: web feature service

Keywords: web map service

Access constraints: License

Use limitation: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Other constraints: https://marineregions.org/disclaimer.php

OnLine resource: Marine Regions Web Feature Services (
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OnLine resource: Marine Regions Web Map Services (
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OnLine resource: Marine Regions Web Coverage Services (
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OnLine resource: Marine Regions Catalogue of Services for the Web (
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)

Operation name: VLIZ GeoServer

Web site: https://geo.vliz.be

Description: The Flanders Marine Institute runs an instance of GeoServer. GeoServer publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards. GeoServer implements several Open Geospatial Consortium protocols including Web Map Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS), Web Coverage Service (WCS) and Web Map Tile Service (WMTS). Additional extensions are available for Catalogue Service (CSW) and Web Processing Service (WPS).

Function: The VLIZ GeoServer is used to publish the data products developed by the Marine Regions Team.

Topic Category: Sea regions

Service Category: data access

Service Language: eng

Service TRL: TRL 9 – Actual system proven in operational environment

Service Funding: The maintenance and further development of Marine Regions relies on financial contributions, the time contributed by its editorial board, and support of its host institution: VLIZ. Marine Regions is currently funded through the LifeWatch Belgium project.