Description: <span style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:Raleway, Roboto, "Open Sans", Themify, sans-serif; font-size:14px;">The World Port Index (Pub 150) contains the location and physical characteristics of, and the facilities and services offered by major ports and terminals world-wide. Entries are numbered geographically. In 2020, NGA undertook an effort to modernize the content and delivery of the World Port Index, resulting in additional and enhanced data fields, and a web application viewing platform. The modernization also implemented crowd-sourcing methods to validate and update the content.</span><br /><div><span style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:Raleway, Roboto, "Open Sans", Themify, sans-serif; font-size:14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:Raleway, Roboto, "Open Sans", Themify, sans-serif; font-size:14px;">Re-projected into web mercator (EPSG:3857)</span></div>
Description: <div>Bounding boxes of approximately 12 natuicle miles from point supplied in the World Port Index (WPI)(Pub 150) contains the location and physical characteristics of, and the facilities and services offered by major ports and terminals world-wide (approximately 3700 entries)</div><div>World Port Index:<a href="https://msi.nga.mil/Publications/WPI" target="_blank"> https://msi.nga.mil/Publications/WPI</a> </div><div>2019 Version downloaded from: <a href="https://msi.nga.mil/api/publications/download?key=16694622/SFH00000/WPI_Shapefile.zip&type=view" target="_blank">https://msi.nga.mil/api/publications/download?key=16694622/SFH00000/WPI_Shapefile.zip&type=view</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Bounding boxes are created from geographic buffers. Each feature is reprojected to Dynamic Equal Distance projection, and then creates buffers that is then reprojected to match the original coordinate system of the input features, and are output.</div><div><br /></div><div>Data set created for use on UN-ECE Machine Learning for Official Statistics: Machine Learning Group 2022 project.</div><div>Purpose of data set is for use on United Nations Global Platform (see: <a href="https://unstats.un.org/bigdata/task-teams/ais/index.cshtml" target="_blank">https://unstats.un.org/bigdata/task-teams/ais/index.cshtml</a>)</div><div><br /></div>