Description
Background:
The coastal gazetteer is a tool that documents the geographical names in the German coastal zone. The central components include a place name register, which can be integrated as a web service into a geoportal and an integration into the metadata collection.
A special feature of the coastal gazetteer is its (a) history management to take account of changes in the shape and extent of structures in the Wadden Sea shaped by tidal events and (b) multilingualism to record local linguistic diversity.
In the two projects NOKIS (2001-2008) and MDI-DE (2010-2013), which were developed by the Board of Trustees for Research in Coastal Engineering (KFKI), the foundations for the coastal gazetteer have been developed. Since 2014, the database has been updated and functional adjustments made as part of the VKoopUIS MDI-DE.
Dataset:
In 2021, the database included about 12,000 geographical names from the coastal foreshore of the North Sea and Baltic Sea processed from about 200 sources, including the maps ‘Geographical names in German coastal waters’ issued by the Standing Committee on Geographical Names (StAGN) and nautical maps of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency from different years.
In the coastal forefield, gutter systems and mudflat ridges change their size, shape and location as a result of morphodynamics. Therefore, the geometries for geographical objects are recorded at different times in the coastal gazetteer. Their names are also documented in the different local languages. In addition to individual historical images, there is a complete picture of the North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts for the current state and the year 1975.
Usage:
The naming material in the coastal gazetteer is used for the uniform use of place names in the collection of metadata and in research. Geographic names and associated geometries are integrated into the MDI-DE Geoportal as a service and are available for free use as WMS/WFS.
Resources
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https://mdi-de-dienste.org/geoserver_gaz/nokis/ows?SERVICE=WMS& |
Tags
- mdi-de_basisdaten
- gazetteer
- humaninteractionservice
- inspireidentifiziert
- namenskatalog
- ostsee
- küstengazetteer
- mdi-de
- nordsee