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Source marine base map and habitat layers #437

Open CEJohnston opened 6 years ago

CEJohnston commented 6 years ago

At the NBN Conference Dan Lear's talk included a suggestion for a source for marine base mapping - http://portal.emodnet-bathymetry.eu. The website has several options for bathymetric layers and also for habitat mapping (though the latter is gappy).

Will forward an email from Esther (also at the Marine Biological Association) with other possible contacts for marine data.

CEJohnston commented 6 years ago

For info - the marine workshop discussion document from the 2017 NBN Conference (on the NBN website) contains more detailed context about marine layer and associated actions for workshop attendees to follow up.

CEJohnston commented 5 years ago

Initial requirements for marine base map and habitat layers have been written up in attached document. Includes downloading info, links and sources for metadata - please could you review and indicate any gaps in the info supplied? Could do with some developer input on what is technically possible to implement re the appearance of the bathymetric layers in the different mapping views in the Atlas.

Marine layers requirements and sources.docx

esthug commented 5 years ago

Hi All, We have received some external user feedback regarding the marine base map for the atlas. Please see below from Keith Hiscock who regularly submits marine records from dives. These attributes would be very useful for marine recorders.

  1. To be able to view the GPS readout that most people recording from a boat appear to use: Degrees, minutes and decimal minutes (but both decimal degrees, and degrees, minutes, seconds would also be very important to have)
  2. To be able to ‘see survey records (species occurrences) in the context of bathymetry’
  3. To be able to see bathymetry that shows depth contours and spot depths.
  4. It would also be useful to obtain a lat. long. for a conspicuous feature (e.g. a rock pinnacle, a wreck) where a record is.

Many thanks, Esther

CEJohnston commented 5 years ago

Thanks @esthug . @sophiathirza @reupost - at some point - could we discuss the requirements and possibilities for marine layers?