Ramsar site
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Ramsar sites are wetland wildlife conservation areas nominated by states parties to the convention signed at Ramsar, Iran in 1971.
Shape Files
The secretariat of the convention, [1] has confirmed that GIS shape files of Ramsar sites are in the public domain: osm-talk.
Shapefiles are available at [2] (registration required) for the following European countries: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Sweden, Switzerland.
Datasets for other countries are visible on the Wetlands International site, but have not been made available for download. In some cases, e.g., the United Kingdom, this is likely to be for copyright reasons. Shapefiles are prepared by the countries themselves, so they may vary in the format of the shp-file (UTM, GEO,...)
Tagging
The precise tagging of the wide range of different categories of sites for nature conservation has not been worked out in any detail. Therefore this is only a tentative suggestion of how to tag Ramsar sites.
Sites should be tagged leisure=nature_reserve, and possibly landuse=conservation (see Proposed features/conservation), with an additional ramsar=yes. Care should be taken to not cause conflict with existing tags of a similar nature. Many Ramsar sites may contain explicit nature reserves (owned by conservation bodies) with different boundaries to the Ramsar site. In addition Ramsar sites may be covered by other conservation categories, such as SSSI status in Great Britain, and SAC and SPAs in the European Union. A good example of this is Rutland Water, where the western shore is a nature reserve operated by the local Wildlife Trust and Anglian Water, and the whole reservoir is an SSSI, an SPA, and a Ramsar site.
Countries
Antigua and Barbuda
Bulgaria
Cyprus
Denmark
Finland
Hungary
- Bodrogzug
Map (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
- Felsö-Tisza Map (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
- Hortobágy Map (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
- Ipoly-völgy Map (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Iceland
- Grunnafjördur Map (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
- Thjórsárver Map (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
- Mývatn-Laxá Map (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
Slovak Republic
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
- Akyatan Lagoon Map (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
- Gediz Delta Map (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
- Göksu Delta Map (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
- Kuş Gölü Map (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
- Kizören Obrouk Map (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
- Kuş Gölü Map (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
- Lake Burdur Map (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
- Lake Seyfe Map (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
- Meke Maar Map (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
- Sultan Marshes Map (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
- Uluabat Gölü Map (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
- Yumurtalik Lagoons Map (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
- Lake Kuyucuk Map (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
