Metadata Catalogue Metadata Catalogue https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu/ https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu//srv/eng/portal.opensearch https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu//srv/eng/rdf.search?any= eng Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu//srv/eng/thesaurus.download?ref=external.place.regions ecoportal.fos_1.rdf https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu//srv/eng/thesaurus.download?ref=external.ecoportal.fos application/xml XML text/html HTML ce6bc0c7-2ef6-4f4d-b991-0c4ad353374e 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> coordinate reference systems marine gazetteer service geography feature WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link https://marineregions.org/gazetteer.php?p=search REST https://marineregions.org/gazetteer.php?p=webservicestype=rest SOAP https://marineregions.org/gazetteer.php?p=soap LDES https://www.marineregions.org/feed R https://docs.ropensci.org/mregions2/ 2005-01-01 2021-09-23 license https://marineregions.org/disclaimer.php Flanders Marine Institute Marine Regions Team