France's maritime public domain boundaries in the Somme region, defined by historical legal principles. The dataset likely contains the spatial extent of state-owned coastal land, based on the highest tides and legal codes from 1681 and 1973. It was published by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières and last updated in March 2019.
Use Cases
- Mapping state-owned coastal land based on the legal definition of shoreline.
- Analyzing the impact of tidal extremes on property boundaries based on the March tide reference.
- Studying the evolution of maritime law based on references to ordinances from 1681 and 1973.
- Assessing the inalienable nature of public maritime domain based on the principle of imprescriptibility.
Strengths
- Based on specific legal ordinances and case law, including the August 1681 Ordinance and the 1973 Kreitmann judgment.
- Defines a fundamental legal-geographic concept for coastal management.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Last updated 2019-03-25; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES
- Freshness
- Last updated 2019-03-25 00:00:00
- Geography
- Somme, France