Coast Map News Issue 3 (Autumn 2002)
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During the consultation phase of the first Marine Stewardship 'Safeguarding our Seas' Report, many stakeholders commented that there was a need to improve the integration of geographical information about the UK marine environment. In response, a DEFRA-funded workshop "Delivering Integrated Marine Mapping for the UK" will be held in London on 11 September 2002. This will review existing initiatives in the UK and overseas, determine what users need in order to fulfil their responsibilities effectively, and then explore how best to provide this in an integrated way. The workshop will be informed by the results of an electronic questionnaire sent to over 1,000 stakeholders. This workshop is a follow up to the 1999 one "Integrated mapping of the UK marine and coastal zone - the way forward" that first highlighted the inadequacies in availability of, and access to, marine and coastal data and information and led to a number of initiatives, including the creation of Coast Map News. We look forward to reporting the outcome of the September workshop in the next issue of Coast Map News.
In this issue:
- Integrated mapping for the UK
- Futurecoast
- Habitat mapping
- The UK coastal map creator
- Events
