Period:
Status: In Progress
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- Natural England, more, partner
- Scottish Natural Heritage - Headquarters (SNH), more, partner
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), more, partner
- English Nature, more, partner
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), more, partner
- Essex County Council, more, partner
- Environment Agency; Anglian Region, more, partner
- Energy Institute, more, partner
- Hampshire County Council, more, partner
- The Scottish Executive, more, partner
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Atlas Purpose
- Provide a flexible resource for national oil spill planning, facilitating
- Seamless multi agency, operational response;
- Audit and contingency planning, consistent with the UK National Contingency Plan (NCP);
- Clean-up management;
- Damage assessment, compensation, responsibilities;
- Provide information on sensitive resources of the UK coastline and its seas to all stakeholders.
- Assist in identification of protection and clean-up priorities.
Distinguishing Features
- A coastal and marine extension of the MAGIC (Multi Agency Geographic Information for the Countryside) website.
- Focussed on oil spill planning.
Target Audience
- Government/Public Bodies;
- Commercial/Industry;
- Consultancies;
- Coastal/Environmental Managers;
- Decision Makers;
Atlas Design and Usability
- Focus:
- Design:
- Clear navigation and instruction;
- Single point(s) of access to map/data;
- Guided navigation
- Map Page:
- View limited layers
- View data independently/by theme;.
- Separate legend & layer lists
- Links to external pages
- Documentation:
- Thematic text;
- Metadata:
- Database
- Single format(s);
- Help page(s);
- Tutorial;
- Standards:
- Metadata standards: ISO 19xxx;
Technology Used
- Mapping Software:
- Proprietary: ESRI ArcIMS;
- Data Storage:
- Locally: SQL Server with ArcSDE;
- Distributed Network: SPIRE database (early 2007);
- Database Management System:
Functionality/Tools Available
- Level:
- Search Capability:
- Search for data
- Search for attributes;
- Other:
- Marine data viewable in ED50 Mercator and GB National Grid.
- Mapping Tools:
- Zoom, recentre and full extent;
- Identify features;
- Layer list control;
- Print/Export maps;
- Query attributes;
- Measure line and areas;
- Download geospatial data.
Data/Cartographic Information Included
- Geographic Area: England, Scotland and Wales;
- Number of Datasets: >100;
- Topics:
- Physical Environment;
- Coastal Habitats;
- Biology;
- Management;
- Conservation;
- Environmental Monitoring;
- Infrastructure;Industry;
- Natural Resources;
- Fisheries, Aquaculture & Agriculture;
- Other: Sensitivity.
Data Issues
- IPR/Cost:
- Cost-prohibitive data (base/other);
- Intellectual Property Rights (IPR);
- Data use restrictions;
- Accessibility:
- Data sourcing and acquisition;
- Poorly managed, inaccessible data;
- Data duplication
- Quality:
- Variable/inconsistent data quality;
- Inappropriate data scales;
- Incomparable regional datasets;
- Poor/non-existent metadata;
- Management:
- Data management plan development;
- Balance of development and update
- Other:
- Over-reliance on personal knowledge for data information.
Other Challenges
- Funding for site maintenance;
- Designing simple, intuitive and informative web interface;
- Content balance of science and information;
- Design of efficient DBMS for content management;
- Other:
- Marine topic new to countryside atlas MAGIC;
- Aligning to MAGIC procedures
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