Public Access to Natura 2000 data

Public Access to Natura 2000 (target audience, products, functionality, documentation)

Timeline and milestones

Public Viewer: Summary View Natura 2000 sites Change backgrounds: street map, satellite map, Corine Land Cover, Biogeographical regions, etc. Site search, species search, location search (“fly to”) Other: Graphical search, Draw and measure, Bookmarks, etc.

Public Viewer Week of 24-29 November: update with new data & new features

Public Viewer disclaimer (on Circa) List of MS included Absence of sensitive species – if necessary contact Member States for more info. Technical information and limitations of the presented data: Generalization to scale 1:100000 Reprojected to WGS84 possible shift with background when zooming in close Date of reception of national datasets Date of production of EU-wide dataset  The more up-to-date the data, the better

Sensitive species management Problem: how to update list of species? Last year: standard Excel template Now: Word, Excel, txt file, paper, etc. Not always sent through Perm Rep: mail, email exchange, etc.  not manageable and not reliable in the long run Possible solutions: create an online interface where national data coordinators can update their own list of sensitive species (edit, add and delete) … ?

Acceptance/Refusal policy Data can not be managed differently for each Member State: 27 Member States, 3 products = 27 * 27 * 27 = 19683 different combination of rules impossible to manage and keep track efficiently over time Simple alternative: either in or out (revision possible every six months)

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