NatureMaps is an initiative of the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources that provides a common access point to maps and geographic information about South Australia's natural resources in an interactive online mapping format.

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Map data from Natural Earth.

This data set contains the cultural and physical vector data sets only. It does not contain the raster format data. Cultural data contains map data on countries, states, boundaries, roads, railways, airports, ports, urban areas, etc.

Data are organized by scale, see here for details: - 110m: 1:110,000,000, suitable for schematic maps of the world on a postcard or as a small locator globe. - 50m: 1:50,000,000, suitable for making zoomed-out maps of countries and regions. Show the world on a tabloid size page. - 10m: 1:10,000,000, the most detailed. Suitable for making zoomed-in maps of countries and regions. Show the world on a large wall poster.

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• Map of habitats on a scale of 1:50,000, coded according to the European classification system CORINE Biotopes, with adaptations and additions. - Ecological-environmental evaluation data: Indices of ecological value, ecological sensitivity, anthropic pressure and environmental fragility with relative cartographic rendering by value class. Reference publications:- ISPRA 2009, Habitats in the Charter of Nature. Descriptive cards of the habitats for the 1:50.000 scale cartography. ISPRA ed., Series of Manuals and Guidelines n.49/2009. Rome http://www.isprambiente.gov.it/files/carta-della-natura/catalogo-habitat.pdf - ISPRA 2009, The Carta della Natura project at the scale of 1:50,000. ISPRA ed., Series of Manuals and Guidelines n.48/2009. Rome http://www.isprambiente.gov.it/files/carta-della-natura/cdn-manuale.pdf

This web map shows natural features point and polygon layers from OSM (OpenStreetMap) in India.OSM is a collaborative, open project to create a freely available and editable map of the world. Geographic information about streets, rivers, borders, points of interest and areas are collected worldwide and stored in a freely accessible database. Everyone can participate and contribute to OSM. The geographic information available on OSM relies entirely on volunteers or contributors.The attributes are given below:BeachCave EntranceCliffGlacierPeakSpringTreeVolcanoThese map layers are offered by Esri India Content. The content team updates the map layers quarterly. If you have any questions or comments, please let us know via content@esri.in.

The areas for the protection of nature include in particular the - areas worthy of nature conservation secured by the technical planning and - other habitats worthy of nature conservation (biotopes) which are to be protected accordingly. In addition, they contain sub-areas that are considered as search areas for specialist planning, in which specialist planning has to determine and develop the possibilities for supplementing the existing habitats worthy of nature protection and for establishing a biotope network system.

Map of habitats on a scale of 1:50,000, codified according to the European classification system CORINE Biotopes, with adaptations and additions. - Ecological-environmental evaluation data: Indices of ecological value, ecological sensitivity, anthropic pressure and environmental fragility with relative cartographic rendering by value class. Reference publications: - ISPRA 2009, Habitats in the Charter of Nature. Descriptive cards of the habitats for the 1:50.000 scale cartography. ISPRA ed., Series of Manuals and Guidelines n.49/2009. Rome http://www.isprambiente.gov.it/files/carta-della-natura/catalogo-habitat.pdf - ISPRA 2009, The Carta della Natura project at the scale of 1:50,000. ISPRA ed., Series of Manuals and Guidelines n.48/2009. Rome http://www.isprambiente.gov.it/files/carta-della-natura/cdn-manuale.pdf

Twelve maps of continental Europe indicating the protected nature area status in 2019 according to Natura 2000 and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The IUCN status was extracted from crowdsourced data obtained from OpenStreetMap through geofabrik.de.

This dataset contains:

3 raster maps representing Natura 2000 protection status (A, B and C), named Natura2000_[status].tif

8 raster maps representing OSM-derived IUCN protection status (1a, 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 'other'), named OSM_IUCN_[status].tif

1 aggregated map (adm_protected.area_natura2000.osm_p_30m_0..0cm_2019..2021_eumap_epsg3035_v0.1) where each of the 11 protection statuses, as well as pixels where multiple statuses apply, are assigned a unique value. This map can also be accessed interactively at maps.opendatascience.eu.

All files are provided as Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs and projected in the Coordinate Reference System ETRS89 / LAEA Europe (= EPSG code 3035). Styling files for the aggregated raster are provided in both SLD and QML format.

For the first time The Nature Conservancy has defined its geospatial community and described some of the impacts on conservation. Geospatial technology, the combined disciplines of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing and more recently artificial intelligence, has informed the Conservancy’s conservation science approaches for decades. With the launch of the Geospatial Conservation at The Nature Conservancy 2019 Annual Report and Map Book, we are at a pivotal and exciting time. At least one in every three Conservancy staff uses maps, whether to monitor preserves, negotiate land and water transactions, or develop global ecosystem services analyses. The Nature Conservancy’s Geospatial Systems Team in IT has established a global GIS Leadership Council, formed working groups in key areas such as cartography and increased our central capacity to support the vast array of geospatial activity across the organization. “Following decades of collaboration between Esri and The Nature Conservancy, I am excited to see this inaugural geospatial annual report,” says Jack Dangermond, Founder and President of the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri). “TNC is a global leader in applying GIS to inform conservation management plans and actions to address complex environmental challenges powered by the best available data, scientifically grounded spatial analysis and advanced visualization tools. This series of reports will inform readers about the trends and profound conservation impacts which have been realized by leveraging geospatial technology.”This report is designed to (a) provide a baseline of the Conservancy’s 2019 geospatial work, (b) present use cases that illustrate ways that technology supports conservation and (c) examine emerging opportunities where TNC can best leverage geospatial technology to protect, conserve and restore ecosystems around the globe.

These data were compiled for the use of training natural feature machine learning (GeoAI) detection and delineation. The natural feature classes include the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature types Basins, Bays, Bends, Craters, Gaps, Guts, Islands, Lakes, Ridges and Valleys, and are an areal representation of those GNIS point features. Features were produced using heads-up digitizing from 2018 to 2019 by Dr. Sam Arundel's team at the U.S. Geological Survey, Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science, Rolla, Missouri, USA, and Dr. Wenwen Li's team in the School of Geographical Sciences at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.

This map shows benthic habitats surrounding Haiti. It is produced and owned by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and derived from PlanetScope Dove Classic imagery. This map is part of the The Nature Conservancy Caribbean Benthic Habitat dataset.

A mecca for tropical biologists, Barro Colorado Island and five surrounding peninsulas provide easy access to central Panama’s lowland tropical forest. The 1,560 hectare island was formed when engineers dammed the Chagres River in 1914 to create Gatun Lake, the main channel of the Panama Canal.On Barro Colorado Island, we study everything from lightning strikes on towering trees to the microbes and chemical cocktails that engineer mind-boggling plant and animal diversity. Nearly 100 years of climate data, four decades of environmental monitoring and the establishment of the first long-term, large-scale tropical forest monitoring plot in 1980, provide critical tools to learn how tropical forests and their inhabitants change through time.Barro Colorado Island has moderately gentle topography, with relief of 145 m from 26 m (lake level) to 171 m a.s.l. at the radio tower (STRI 1987). Most slopes are gentler than 10º. The topography is clearly related to the geological structure.

The files linked to this reference are the geospatial data created as part of the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit. Current format is ArcGIS file geodatabase but older formats may exist as shapefiles. The mapping component of the NABR project used a combination of methods to interpret and delineate vegetation polygons. A trained interpreter visually examined the 9 x 9-inch photographs in stereo to identify vegetation polygons. Polygons were drawn on Mylar overlays that were later scanned, or digitally on a computer screen. Digitizing was performed using vector editing in ArcGIS. Each vegetation and land use polygon so produced was given map class and other descriptive attributes. The Monument and an area of environs surrounding it were interpreted and mapped to the same level of detail. Each polygon was assigned a map class number, alpha code and name, Anderson land use class, and vegetation density, pattern, and height attributes. In order to improve the utility of the map and related data, the spatial database was moved into a geodatabase format. This format allows text and image information to be incorporated and linked to spatial coordinates. Twenty map classes were developed to describe the NABR vegetation mapping project area. Of these, 17 are vegetation map classes and 3 are non-vegetated land-use map classes. Of the 17 vegetation map classes, one is represented by points only, one is a single polygon, and three represent single NVC plant associations. The remaining 12 vegetation map classes contain multiple plant associations.

Nature type mapping for the Norwegian Environment Agency 2018. Species occurrence were recorded through the Norwegian Environment Agency 2018 app, Arter. The species occurrence data includes red-listed, invasive and habitat specific species of plants, lichens, mosses and fungi during mapping/surveying of important nature types using the NiN2 which was performed by NINA in 2018.

This is a spatial dataset containing polygons representing areas of vegetation mapped within the Moor House National Nature Reserve in the northern Pennines, England. The map was created by staff of The Nature Conservancy in the 1960s.

This map shows benthic habitats surrounding Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It is produced and owned by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and derived from PlanetScope Dove Classic imagery. This map is part of the The Nature Conservancy Caribbean Benthic Habitat dataset.

BioMap is the result of an ongoing collaboration between MassWildlife and the Massachusetts Chapter of The Nature Conservancy (TNC). Since its inception in 2001, this comprehensive tool has become a trusted source of information to guide conservation that is used by a wide spectrum of conservation practitioners. Today’s BioMap builds on previous iterations with the continuing goal of protecting the diversity of species and natural ecosystems within the Commonwealth. BioMap is an important tool to guide strategic protection and stewardship of lands and waters that are most important for conserving biological diversity in Massachusetts.More details...Map service also available.

Map of the habitats of the Campania Region at a scale of 1:25,000, codified according to the European classification system CORINE Biotopes, with adaptations and additions. - Ecological-environmental evaluation data: Indices of ecological value, ecological sensitivity, anthropic pressure and environmental fragility, attributed to each mapped biotope, with relative cartographic rendering by value class. Reference publications: - ISPRA 2009, The Charter of Nature project at the scale of 1:50,000. ISPRA ed., Series of Manuals and Guidelines n.48/2009. Rome http://www.isprambiente.gov.it/files/carta-della-natura/cdn-manuale.pdf - ISPRA 2009, Habitats in the Charter of Nature. Descriptive cards of the habitats for the 1:50.000 scale cartography. ISPRA ed., Series of Manuals and Guidelines n.49/2009. Rome http://www.isprambiente.gov.it/files/carta-della-natura/catalogo-habitat.pdf

Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.

The map of the protected natural forests in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg is the result of a cartography of private and public forests in the framework of which data on forest formations protected under article 17 of the amended law of the 19th January 2004 concerning the protection of nature and natural resources (Nature Protection Law) were collected. The cartography was compiled in 2014 and is based on phytosociological field inventories of all the forest formations in the Grand-Duchy, realised during the years 1992-2002. None of the data collected and mapped between 1992 and 2002 have been updated by further inventories or by verification in the field. The “2014” map of protected natural forests thus reflects the situation as recorded during the years 1992-2002. Due to natural developments and changes induced through forest management since the original inventories (around 20 years ago), the actual situation encountered in the field today can differ from that shown in the “2014” map. The map can therefore only serve as a support tool for forest owners in the framework of article 17 conform forest management of natural forests protected by Nature Protection Law. In any case, the information it contains must be confirmed and, if necessary, updated in the field. Some protected forest formations have not been mapped in the original cartography and are therefore not represented in the simplified map: i.e. forest borders, copses and conversion or transformation states of coppice to high forest. Neither are small-area biotopes such as sources, natural ponds, rock formations, and so on represented on the map. They are nevertheless subject to protection under article 17 of the Nature Protection Law. All forest formations that are not protected under article 17 figure on the map as seen on the topographic maps of the Administration du Cadastre et de la Topographie. The guidance and best practice note ("Leitfaden für forstliche Bewirtschaftungs- und Pflegemaßnahmen von geschützten Waldbiotopen"), available online on the site of the Ministère du Développement Durable et des Infrastructures (http://www.environnement.public.lu/forets/dossiers/pfn/documents/Leitfaden_7_11_2014.pdf ), contains forest management recommendations helping to avoid the destruction, deterioration or degradation of the protected forests.

The Resilient and Connected Network is a proposed conservation network of representative climate-resilient sites designed to sustain biodiversity and ecological functions into the future under a changing climate. The network was identified and mapped over a 10-year period by Nature Conservancy scientists using public data available at the state and national scale, and an inclusive process that involved 289 scientists from agencies, academia, and NGOs across the US.