Protected areas and nature monuments in Estonia
description
Data on protected areas can be combined with other data to
create additional information. Estonian use case demonstrates how
officials in municipalities get benefits and aid to decision making
procedures from information about number of protected areas in one
municipality and how area of a protected are is divided between
different municipalities. In addition officials can easily locate a
protected area and obtain detailed information about the specific area
by using chained systems. It means that Estonian use case uses
URL-linking to Estonian Nature Information System and further on to
Estonian Land Board web mapping service.
Following data is used in the use case: protected areas in Estonia
(National parks, Nature Conservation Areas, Landscape Protection Areas)
– altogether 366 map objects
protected nature monuments : trees (single trees, tree groups), stones
(boulders, stone fields), springs, waterfalls, rapids, caves
(sandstone, karst caves), exposures (limestone cliffs, terraces,
limestone exposures, stratotypes), karst phenomena (swallow holes)
– altogether 1048 map objects.
As background data a map layer with municipalities’ (241) borders
was used.
Use case is implemented with OGC compliant free ware: MapServer 4.2 on
server side (WMS) and MapLab 2.2 on client side. Data has also been
registered at Nature GIS Thematic portal.