NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries

The 18 national marine sanctuaries and marine national monument sanctuary units of the National Marine Sanctuary System (47 polygons: multi-part sites such as Channel Islands and Flower Garden Banks have one polygon per unitname section). cfrsection and citation give the designating regulation.

• Collection: noaa_sanctuaries v1.0.0, 47 features, GeoParquet 1.1 (places.parquet) and PMTiles (places.pmtiles, layer noaa_sanctuaries)
• Licence: CC-PDDC - U.S. federal government work (NOAA); the AGOL item carries NOAA's 17 U.S.C. 403 notice (material 'not subject to copyright protection within the United States'; foreign copyrights may apply). Credit NOAA, do not imply endorsement. https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#105
• Attribution: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS), via MarineCadastre.gov. Public domain. Processed by Ocean Metrics.
• Refresh: monthly, 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_sanctuaries/places.parquet')
ORDER BY place_id;

Changes

• 1.0.0: first release.