Metadata Catalogue
Marine Regions Gazetteer Web Services
Dealing with different names of geographic features or entities, VLIZ developed a standard, relational list of geographic names, coupled with information and maps of the geographic location of these features. The purpose of the gazetteer is to improve access and clarity of the different geographic, mainly marine names such as seas, sandbanks, ridges, bays or even standard sampling stations used in marine research. The geographic cover is global; however the gazetteer is focused on the Belgian Continental Shelf, the Scheldt Estuary and the Southern Bight of the North Sea.
The Marine Regions Gazetteer is accessible both for humans and machines in different ways:
- through the web portal by means of the search engine interface;
- through REST APIs;
- through SOAP calls;
- through Linked Data Event Streams;
- through an ad-hoc developed R Package: 'mregions2'.<div>The main services are:</div><div>1) Get lat-long by mrgid: it returns the latitude and longitude of the centroid and the preferred gazetteer name of a Marine Regions ID (MRGID), based on the MRGID in the uploaded data file.</div><div>2) Get gazetteer name by Lat-long: it returns the Marine Regions gazetteer name and the Marine Regions ID (MRGID) of the bounding box (radius 3) based on the Latitude and Longitude in the uploaded data file.</div><div>3) Get lat-long by accepted name: it returns the latitude, longitude, accepted gazetteer name and the Marine Regions ID (MRGID) of a given gazetteer name in the uploaded data file.</div>
Default
- Date ( Creation)
- 2005-01-01
- Date ( Revision)
- 2021-09-23
- Status
- Completed
- Keywords
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coordinate reference systems
- Keywords
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Marine
- Keywords
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Gazetteer service
- Keywords
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Geography
- Keywords
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Feature
- Access constraints
- License
- Use limitation
- Other constraints
- OnLine resource
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Link to the service
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
- OnLine resource
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REST web services
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REST
)
- OnLine resource
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SOAP web services
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SOAP
)
- OnLine resource
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Linked Data Event Stream feed access point
(
LDES
)
- OnLine resource
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R package 'mregions2'
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R
)
- Operation name
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Marine Regions Gazetteer
- Description
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Dealing with different names of geographic features or entities, VLIZ developed a standard, relational list of geographic names, coupled with information and maps of the geographic location of these features.
- Function
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The purpose of the gazetteer is to improve access and clarity of the different geographic, mainly marine names such as seas, sandbanks, ridges, bays or even standard sampling stations used in marine research.
- Topic Category
- Geographical names
- Service Category
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data analysis
- Service Category
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data processing
- Service Language
- eng
- Service TRL
- TRL 9 – Actual system proven in operational environment
- Service Funding
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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.
- Service Helpdesk
Metadata
- File identifier
- ce6bc0c7-2ef6-4f4d-b991-0c4ad353374e XML
- Metadata language
- en
- Hierarchy level
- Service
- Metadata Schema Version
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1.0
