aid: flanders-marine-institute
name: Flanders Marine Institute
type: Index
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-20'
modified: '2026-08-20'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/flanders-marine-institute/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
description: The Flanders Marine Institute (Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee, VLIZ) is the Belgian coordination and
  information platform for marine research, and the operator of Marine Regions, the World Register of Marine Species
  gazetteer infrastructure and the EMODnet data portals. Its geospatial estate is one of the largest openly callable
  marine OGC surfaces in Europe.
x-ogc-member:
  level: Explorer
  member_type: Non-Profit
  country: Belgium
  source: https://portal.ogc.org/services/srv_active_members_csv_new.php
tags:
- Geospatial
- OGC
- WMS
- WFS
- Open Access
- GIS
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://geo.vliz.be/
apis:
- aid: flanders-marine-institute:ogc-web-services
  name: Flanders Marine Institute OGC Web Services (WMS / WFS)
  description: 'OGC-standard web services served from a GeoServer instance. Verified anonymously on 2026-08-20:
    a WMS 1.3.0 GetCapabilities document declaring 1146 layers and a WFS 2.0.0 GetCapabilities document declaring
    651 feature types returned HTTP 200 and is saved here verbatim. These GetCapabilities documents are the machine-readable
    contract for this surface — there is no OpenAPI for the classic OGC services.'
  humanURL: https://geo.vliz.be/
  baseURL: https://geo.vliz.be/geoserver/ows
  tags:
  - Geospatial
  - OGC
  - WMS
  - WFS
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: GetCapabilities
    url: openapi/flanders-marine-institute-wms-capabilities.xml
  - type: WMS
    url: https://geo.vliz.be/geoserver/ows?service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities&version=1.3.0
  - type: GetCapabilities
    url: openapi/flanders-marine-institute-wfs-capabilities.xml
  - type: WFS
    url: https://geo.vliz.be/geoserver/ows?service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities&version=2.0.0