Web Services for Coastal and Marine Atlases

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Published: 25 September 2013 25 September 2013

Keiran Millard
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HydroView Now is a range of free to use web mapping services developed by SeaZone.  They have been developed for users building  and delivering coastal and marine atlases.  HydroView Now provides all the key base-mapping and reference features generally needed in developing marine and coastal atlases, allowing users to focus on their content and analysis.

Fully standards-based, the services work in web mapping applications as well as desktop clients such as ArcGIS and QGIS.  They comprise two services:  HydroView Now: Basemap and HydroView Now: Features.

HydroView Now : Basemap

A WMTS for global bathymetry.  This a cartographic product showing hill-shaded bathymetry alongside depth soundings derived from nautical charts.  It contains a transparent land-mask meaning it can be used alongside your choice of land mapping, e.g. OpenStreetMap or BingMaps

HydroView Now : Features

A WFS for global marine feature types.  This provides a definitive worldwide marine reference feature types derived from national hydrographic and other authoritative sources.  The content is processed to form a continuous vector layer dataset aligned to the draft IHO S-100 GML profile.

Both services are delivered through an authenticated web service interface, allowing users to consume the service via an application programming interface.  They are both deployed in the cloud delivering the performance and reliability that users are accustomed to with modern web mapping. 

View HydroViewNow at
http://seazone.viaeuropa.uk.com/viaeuropa/apps/szdemo/