{ "title": "BAS protected places atlas", "titleEs": "Atlas de lugares protegidos de BAS", "reviewed": "2026-11-08", "crs": "WGS84 longitude/latitude · RFC 7946", "counts": { "parks": 7, "places": 25, "approximateBoundaries": 7, "mappedTrailSections": 9 }, "sources": [ { "id": "land", "title": "Natural Earth country outlines and lakes", "publisher": "Natural Earth", "license": "Public domain", "licenseUrl": "https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/", "url": "https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/10m-admin-0-countries/", "upstreamUrl": "https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-physical-vectors/10m-lakes/", "vintage": "1:10 million; Admin 0 Countries v5.1.1 and Lakes v5.0.0", "downloadUrl": "https://naturalearth.s3.amazonaws.com/10m_cultural/ne_10m_admin_0_countries_lakes.zip", "notes": "Belize and the neighboring land backdrop use the same generalized country outlines, with mapped lakes removed. Boundaries are Natural Earth cartographic representations. Small offshore cayes can be absent." }, { "id": "geonames", "title": "GeoNames Belize gazetteer", "publisher": "GeoNames contributors", "url": "https://www.geonames.org/export/", "license": "CC BY 4.0", "vintage": "Belize export retrieved 6 Nov 2026; individual record dates retained", "notes": "Selected named-place points. Coordinates identify general locations, not precise entrances, boat routes, lights in service or visitor moorings.", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "downloadUrl": "https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/BZ.zip" }, { "id": "unesco", "title": "Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System · geographical data", "publisher": "UNESCO World Heritage Centre", "url": "https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/764/maps/", "license": "Published factual coordinates; original map and text not reproduced", "vintage": "Property inscribed 1996; component table checked 6 Nov 2026", "notes": "Seven published DMS coordinate pairs for UNESCO property 764, transcribed and converted to decimal degrees. These are point references, not seven new legal boundary polygons. Use UNESCO’s adopted maps for the property extents.", "licenseUrl": "https://www.unesco.org/en/terms-use" }, { "id": "discovery-osm", "title": "OpenStreetMap visitor geography · Belize extract", "publisher": "© OpenStreetMap contributors, distributed by Geofabrik", "url": "https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright", "license": "Open Database License 1.0", "vintage": "Geofabrik snapshot 5 Nov 2026", "notes": "The separate GeoJSON downloads retain OSM object IDs and source links. These are community-mapped features, not an official trail inventory or legal survey. OSM-derived datasets and adapted geographic records are offered under ODbL 1.0. No animal observation sites are included.", "licenseUrl": "https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/", "downloadUrl": "https://download.geofabrik.de/central-america/belize-261105.osm.pbf", "attribution": "© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0" }, { "id": "bas", "title": "Belize Audubon Society park pages and linked documents", "publisher": "Belize Audubon Society", "url": "https://belizeaudubon.org/", "reviewed": "2026-11-08", "notes": "Public pages checked against the retained current REST inventory. Visitor descriptions are paraphrases; original photographs retain their credits in BAS_PHOTO_SOURCES.json. Original document URLs are linked, not rehosted." }, { "id": "ramsar", "title": "Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary · Ramsar site 946", "publisher": "Ramsar Sites Information Service", "url": "https://rsis.ramsar.org/ris/946", "summaryUrl": "https://rsis.ramsar.org/sites/default/files/rsiswp_search/exports/Ramsar-Sites-annotated-summary-Belize.pdf", "reviewed": "2026-11-08", "notes": "Historical designation and eastern wetland group context. Does not imply the Ramsar boundary equals the current national sanctuary boundary." }, { "id": "coral-surveys", "title": "Global Coral Bleaching Database · 1999 Lighthouse Reef stations", "publisher": "BCO-DMO / Global Coral Bleaching Database", "url": "https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/773466", "methodsUrl": "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01121-y", "notes": "Two dated stations reused unchanged from the reviewed Trust atlas. No current coral condition inferred; station positions are not dive destinations." } ], "basemaps": [ { "id": "illustrated", "title": { "en": "Illustrated land and sea", "es": "Tierra y mar ilustrados" }, "publisher": "Natural Earth", "url": "https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/", "license": "Public domain", "notes": { "en": "Generalized country outlines and lakes at 1:10 million scale. Small islands can be absent.", "es": "Contornos de países y lagos generalizados a escala 1:10 millones. Pueden faltar islas pequeñas." } }, { "id": "satellite", "title": { "en": "Satellite archive · Landsat annual composite from 2000", "es": "Archivo satelital · composición anual Landsat de 2000" }, "publisher": "NASA GIBS / ESDIS · NASA/USGS Landsat WELD", "url": "https://nasa-gibs.github.io/gibs-api-docs/access-basics/", "capabilitiesUrl": "https://gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov/wmts/epsg3857/best/1.0.0/WMTSCapabilities.xml", "layer": "Landsat_WELD_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor_Global_Annual", "time": "2000-12-01", "maxNativeZoom": 12, "reviewed": "2026-11-08", "notes": { "en": "Historical annual imagery, not current conditions. Layer identifier, date and zoom ceiling verified in NASA WMTS capabilities.", "es": "Imágenes anuales históricas; no representan las condiciones actuales. Identificador, fecha y zoom verificados en las capacidades WMTS de NASA." } }, { "id": "terrain", "title": { "en": "Global shaded relief", "es": "Relieve sombreado global" }, "publisher": "NOAA NCEI", "url": "https://gis.ngdc.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/DEM_mosaics/DEM_global_mosaic_hillshade/ImageServer", "reviewed": "2026-11-08", "notes": { "en": "Elevation mosaic for landscape context. Not a surveyed navigation or dive chart; source dates vary.", "es": "Mosaico de elevación para contexto del paisaje. No es una carta de navegación o buceo; las fechas de origen varían." } }, { "id": "streets", "title": { "en": "Streets and place names", "es": "Calles y nombres de lugares" }, "publisher": "© OpenStreetMap contributors", "url": "https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright", "policyUrl": "https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/", "notes": { "en": "Online community map tiles. This is separate from the dated feature extract bundled with the demo.", "es": "Teselas cartográficas comunitarias en línea, independientes del extracto fechado incluido en la demo." } } ], "limitations": [ "Point locations distinguish park references, visitor experiences, community gateways and historical scientific context. They are not routing instructions or current status feeds.", "Seven OSM outlines are approximate cartographic context, not adopted legal boundaries. Half Moon Caye uses the mapped marine monument, not the separately mapped island polygon. Source feature dates and operator tags are not treated as current authority.", "Cockscomb outline has known mismatch against nearby trails. Nine trail sections are incomplete community mapping; no invented connectors or summit route added.", "Crooked Tree source page contains an unrelated Maya Mountains paragraph; it was deliberately excluded. No sensitive wildlife nest or capture locations published.", "Images associated with subfeatures can depict their parent park. Existing gallery captions/credits distinguish park imagery from exact-point photography.", "No live observations, weather, mooring availability or opening status invented. Linked authorities supply their current products." ], "limitationsEs": [ "Los puntos distinguen áreas protegidas, experiencias, comunidades y contexto científico histórico. No son instrucciones de ruta ni información de estado en tiempo real.", "Los siete contornos de OpenStreetMap son contexto cartográfico aproximado; no son límites legales adoptados. Half Moon Caye utiliza el contorno marino cartografiado, no el polígono separado de la isla.", "El contorno de Cockscomb presenta diferencias conocidas respecto de senderos cercanos. Los nueve tramos son cartografía comunitaria incompleta; no se inventaron conexiones ni una ruta completa a la cima.", "La página de Crooked Tree contiene un párrafo ajeno sobre Maya Mountains que se excluyó. No se publican ubicaciones sensibles de nidos o capturas de fauna.", "Las imágenes de algunos puntos muestran el parque asociado. Las leyendas distinguen fotografías del parque de fotografías de la ubicación exacta.", "No se inventaron observaciones en vivo, clima, disponibilidad de amarres ni aperturas. Las autoridades enlazadas ofrecen sus productos actuales." ] }