WISE Spatial Data reporting resources Bathing Water Directive - Identification of Bathing Waters - 2019

The following material is intended for national reporters of Bathing Water Directive data.
It shows how to use Reportnet tools during the reporting process and how to improve the quality of deliveries.

Dataflow specific instructions

• Reporting obligation
• BWD Reportnet guidance - UNDER DEVELOPMENT

Guidance documents

• WISE GIS guidance
  IMPORTANT NOTE: Only the ProtectedAreaPoint dataset relative to Bathing Waters can be reported under this BWD reporting obligation.
• Data Model Quick Reference Card Additional information on the data model for the spatial data sets
  IMPORTANT NOTE: Only the ProtectedAreaPoint dataset is relevant for this BWD reporting obligation.

Quality Control specification

• Full WFD Quality control specification for spatial data (GML)

UML Data specification

The image below shows the UML class diagram applicable to the ProtectedAreaPoint dataset.

• ProtectedAreaPoint_2022.png

GML schemas

These are the GML schemas to allow the reporting of the spatial data.

• GML_ProtectedAreaPoint_2022.xsd

Shapefile templates to prepare the spatial data

The spatial data can be prepared using the Shapefile format. However, only GML files are accepted from automatic quality control of the data delivered in the Central Data Repository envelopes.
An online tool is available to allow the transformation of the Shapefile to GML.
Shapefile templates are also available:

• ProtectedAreaPoint.zip

• PRJ example files for download

The projection files refer to the following coordinate reference systems:

• EPSG3035: ETRS89 / ETRS-LAEA, see more info
• EPSG4258: ETRS89, see more info
• EPSG4326: WGS84, see more info