- Title
- Ports
- Abstract
This dataset should be bibliographically referred to as the “GISCO Ports 2013 dataset”. It contains a pointfeature class with the location of 2440
pan-European ports, plus one attribute table and 3 domain tables. The ports are identified following the UN Locode list. The dataset is based on the
list “Ports Estat 2010” from Eurostat. All ports are represented by a point location in PORT_PT_2013. Point coordinates and Locodes are derived from
several input sources, including ports lists from EMSA, Lloyds, Norie’s Seaports of the World, the GISCO Ports 2010 dataset and the UN/LOCODE
2007 list. Attributes in PORT_AT_2013 include the port name, Locode Status Indicator, and reliability flags for the positional and Locode accuracy.
Dataset coverage is global. The dataset has been created for cartographic purposes and for appropriate analysis. Port statistics can be
geo-referenced to this high quality pan-European dataset, especially when based on UN Locode.- Creation Date
- June 18, 2015, 12:13 p.m.
- Type
- Vector Data
- Keywords
- networks , Transport
- Category
- Maritime Transport and Tourism
- Maritime Transport and Tourism
- Owner
- Eurostat
- Maintenance Frequency
- Frequency Of Maintenance For The Data Is Not Known
- Restrictions
- This data set should be referred as "Ports, 2013 - European Commission, Eurostat/GISCO". An overview of the use conditions for EuroGeographics and the European Environmental agency (EEA) is given below. The detailed use conditions for EuroGeographics data are available here: https://circabc.europa.eu/d/d/workspace/SpacesStore/6f5186f3-908b-413a-8687-191604976751 /EuroGeographics%20Use%20Conditions%20-%20From%20Contract.pdf Access to the detailed data is restricted to the personnel of the European Commission, the Executive Agencies and contractors, due to intellectual property rights. The contractors can access the data after signing an agreement form. The agreement form can be requested by the responsible service from European Commission - Eurostat/GISCO (ESTAT-GISCO@ec.europa.eu). Once the form has been signed, access will be provided by European Commission - Eurostat/GISCO. Data can be published in the form of electronic images, statistical tables and on paper. Subsets of these data can be made available to the general public for non commercial use, only if the data covered either has a spatial resolution of 1:3.000.000 or smaller, or less than 20% of the original EuroGeographics data is shown for the extent selected. The source and intellectual property have always to be acknowledged. To this end, an acknowledgement as specified below must be visible on any printed or electronic publication using the data. Acknowledgement notice, depending on the language used in the publication: English: Ports: © EuroGeographics, © EEA Source: European Commission â Eurostat/GISCO French: Ports: © EuroGeographics, © EEA Source: Commission européenne â Eurostat/GISCO German: Häfen: © EuroGeographics, © EEA Quelle: Europäische Kommission - Eurostat/GISCO For publications in languages other than English, French or German, the translation of the acknowledgement notice in the language of the publication must be used.
- Edition
- 2013
- Purpose
The datasets have been created for cartographic purposes. Not to be used for navigation. (e) intellectual property rights
- Language
- English
- Data Quality
Port names and Locodes were mainly taken from the Eurostat list "Ports Estat 2009", or the UN/LOCODE 2007 list. Port regions were derived from Corine Land Cover 2000
vector version (CLC class "1.2.3") or EuroRegionalMap v3.0 (HarbourA class). Point location sources were, in decreasing order of preference: 1. European Maritime Safety
Agency (EMSA) list of ports by calls 2. Lloyds MIU list of European ports 3. GISCO Ports 2008 dataset (PORT_2008). This was derived from some of the same sources used
for this dataset, plus Norie’s Seaports of the World list (in Norie’s Nautical Tables, Imray, 2007) 4. UN/LOCODE 2007 list (UNECE, 2007) The point location may then have
been moved inside a port polygon, inside the land polygon (GISCO CNTR_RG_100K_2006), inside a settlement polygon (STTL_RG_250K_V3) or made coincident with a
settlement point (STTL_PT_V3). Port polygons within 200m of a STTL_RG_250K_V3 were named according to the settlement. The named port polygons were matched to
port points within 1 arc minute based on name and coordinate coincidence (fuzzy matching), in order of source preference. Some named polygons not near a point were
assigned Locodes by name match with the UN list. The unnamed port polygons were matched to points within 1 arc minute, considering the agreement between the
different point sources. These steps created initial point and polygon datasets that were harmonised with each other. Port points were added from PORT_PT_2008, the
EMSA dataset or the Estat 2009 list (where possible) where the Locode was not already represented, and these additional points were harmonised with nearby STTL_V3.
Many of the processing steps included some manual matching, editing or checking steps to improve data quality. Reference sources used included port organisation
websites, online port lists, and aerial imagery. The busiest 60 ports according to the "EU Energy and Transport in Figures: Statistical Pocketbook 2009" were visually
checked against input and reference sources. Effort was also focussed on Eurostat statistical ports. All matching steps included manual checks of join tables or the spatial
data to help overcome naming or conceptual differences between sources. Some expected errors were manually fixed. LOCD_STTS_CODE port attributes derived from
UN/LOCODE 2007, and LOCD_STTS_DOM table copied from the StatusIndicator table of the UN database. PORT_COOR_RELI_CODE positional reliability attributes were
calculated for port points based on the process for reaching the final point coordinate. PORT_LOCD_RELI_CODE attributes were derived depending on the port’s proximity
to settlement features that verify the port name (and hence Locode). TEN_CODE and PROC_TEN_CODE attributes provided by GISCO. STAT_PORT_CODE and REMK are
Eurostat attributes from the "Ports Estat 2009" list. ---- Extensions of PORT_2009 and upgrade of location The New records added in PORT_AT_2009 are provided from
EUROSTAT. 230 new ports added (48 russian ports and 182 world ports) and a field (PORT_HIER_CODE) about a hierarchical clasification defined in MART_HIER_DOM. ----
Updated of PORT_2013 and upgrade of location - 73 added ports - 10 changed port code - 4 changed port name - 39 removed port Ports polygons are a not included in
this dataset- Supplemental Information
Information link: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/wikis/x/1y3wB
Download link: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/transport-networks- Spatial Representation Type
- vector data is used to represent geographic data
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