U.S. maritime limits and boundaries (lines)

NOAA Office of Coast Survey's U.S. Maritime Limits and Boundaries (v4.0) as lines: the 12 NM territorial sea (component = territorial_sea_12nm, 87), the 24 NM contiguous zone (contiguous_zone_24nm, 63) and the 200 NM EEZ and maritime boundaries with neighbours (eez_200nm, 96). Compiled to update the charted limits on NOAA charts: NOT FOR LEGAL USE.

• Collection: noaa_maritime_limits v1.0.0, 246 features, GeoParquet 1.1 (places.parquet) and PMTiles (places.pmtiles, layer noaa_maritime_limits)
• Licence: CC-PDDC - U.S. federal government work (NOAA Office of Coast Survey). The item states: NOT FOR LEGAL USE; created for internal purposes to update charted limits; not the official depiction (see NOAA nautical charts). Surface this next to the data. https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#105
• Attribution: Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of Coast Survey (OCS). Public domain; not for legal use. Processed by Ocean Metrics.
• Refresh: yearly, by .github/workflows/sync.yml (re-fetched only when the source's editingInfo.dataLastEditDate or record count changed)

Sources and provenance

Machine-readable copy: provenance.json (also in collection.json and the Parquet footer).

Schema

Native attributes keep the source layer's names; a native name equal to a gazetteer column ignoring case (NAME vs name) is suffixed _src.

Files

Quick start

SELECT place_id, name, status, status_date
FROM read_parquet('https://storage.oceanmetrics.io/gazetteer/noaa_maritime_limits/places.parquet')
ORDER BY place_id;

Changes

• 1.0.0: first release.