Oceans & Seas GeoJSON/TopoJSON

The world's oceans and seas boundaries in GeoJSON and TopoJSON formats.

Data Sources

The data is sourced from Marine Regions, licensed under CC-BY 4.0.

Flanders Marine Institute (2018). IHO Sea Areas, version 3. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/ https://doi.org/10.14284/323

Installation

npm install oceans-seas.geojson

Usage

import map from "oceans-seas.geojson";

The name of each sea/ocean is in the NAME property of its GeoJSON feature.

For the TopoJSON file:

import map from "oceans-seas.geojson/topojson";

Creating a custom GeoJSON/TopoJSON file

1. Download the World_Seas_IHO_v3 shapefile from Marine Regions to the root directory of this repository.
2. Unzip the file.
3. Adjust the scripts in package.json (e.g. filter other fields or change the simplification level).
4. Run the build script.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.