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INFOMAR Phase 1 Priority Bays

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The INtegrated Mapping FOr the Sustainable Development of Ireland's MArine Resource (INFOMAR) programme is a joint venture between the Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI) and the Marine Institute (MI). The programme is the successor to the Irish National Seabed Survey (INSS) and concentrates on creating integrated mapping products related to the seabed.

In 2010 the boundaries were reshaped into more logical shapes as the initial shapes were merely indicative and drawn on large scale map of Ireland. They often did not cover all of the intended Bay or in the case of offshore areas, included extensive onshore areas. The reason for each new shape was recorded and documented. Admiralty Chart boundaries, SAC boundaries, Water Framework Directive waters and current survey coverage were used.

New Priority Areas as approved by the Board in April 2011. For the Priority Bays, we have excluded those areas where there are Priority Bays already to avoid needless duplication and overlap.

It is a vector dataset. Vector data portrays the world using points, lines and polygons (areas).

The data is shown as polygons. Each polygon holds information on name, ID and Area (km2).

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Theme Environment
Date released 2013-06-20
Date updated 2021-05-17
Dataset conforms to these standards The INSPIRE Directive or INSPIRE lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.
Rights notes Data that is produced directly by the Geological Survey Ireland (GSI) and the Marine Institute (MI) is free for use under the conditions of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Under the CC-BY Licence, users must acknowledge the source of the Information in their product or application. Please use this specific attribution statement: "Contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & Marine Institute) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence". In cases where it is not practical to use the statement users may include a URI or hyperlink to a resource that contains the required attribution statement.
Update frequency Never
Language English
Landing page https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/portal/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=85b8ecf8832e40cca6d923aa0688f08e
Geographic coverage in GeoJSON format {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[-10.5, 51.5],[-10.5, 55.5], [-5.5, 55.5], [-5.5, 51.5], [-10.5, 51.5]]]}
Spatial Reference Systems (SRS) WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
Vertical Extent {"verticalDomainName": "sea level", "minVerticalExtent": "-200", "maxVerticalExtent": "-1"}
Provenance information In 2024, the data structure was reviewed and a new database was created in ArcGIS Enterprise. Using ArcGIS Pro 2.6.3, the dataset was renamed as part of a GSI data standardisation process. A standardised dataset alias was added. Fields were renamed and an alias added. Metadata was updated to the new GSI standard based on INSPIRE and ISO standards.
Period of time covered (begin) 2006-01-01
Period of time covered (end) 2016-01-31