EMODnet Bathymetry land geography and topography (OSM)

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable geographic database of the world. The geodata underlying the maps is considered the primary output of the OSM project. The creation and growth of OSM has been motivated by restrictions on use or availability of map data across much of the world, and the advent of inexpensive portable satellite navigation devices. EMODnet bathymetry considers OSM to be the best source for land data to complement the marine environment and to allow easier navigation in the data portal.

OpenStreetMap is a free and noncommercial project; everyone can just download OpenStreetMap data free of charge and process it. However EMODnet Bathymetry requires a tailored rendering of OpenStreetMap data as in all standard available visualisations the world oceans are obscured by water features which have no use in a marine environment. In addition, EMODnet requires a non-projected rendering with no land use which is not the OSM render default.

The OSM rendering is provided to EMODnet by the German company Geofabrik (www.geofabrik.de).

Date (Publication)

Citation identifier: EMODnet_Bathy_OSM

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
EMODnet Bathymetry Consortium		sextant@ifremer.fr	Point of contact

Access constraints: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: DO NOT USE FOR NAVIGATION

Spatial representation type: Vector

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Oceans

Distribution format

Name	Version

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK	https://tiles.emodnet-bathymetry.eu/	EMODnet Bathymetry WMTS service
WWW:LINK	https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/geoviewer	EMODnet viewer

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: RÈGLEMENT (UE) N o 1089/2010 DE LA COMMISSION du 23 novembre 2010 portant modalités d'application de la directive 2007/2/CE du Parlement européen et du Conseil en ce qui concerne l'interopérabilité des séries et des services de données géographiques