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Core Zones of WHS

 
 
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Author elsslots
Admin
#241 | Posted: 15 Feb 2026 17:45 
A couple of new ones:
Agrigento
Redwood (Protected Planet)
Hawaii Volcanoes (Protected Planet)
Everglades (Protected Planet)
Dolomites (Protected Planet)

Author Jakob
Partaker
#242 | Posted: 15 Feb 2026 22:36 
I just made Spa.
Vichy ist still Missing, but Bath IS 100% Great Spa town -uk. So May s.o. copy the corezone?

Author elsslots
Admin
#243 | Posted: 17 Feb 2026 09:56 | Edited by: elsslots 
Added:
Matobo Hills: larger area than you would expect (added some POIs as well)
Chitwan NP (here followed the zone depicted at Protected Planet; although the official map shown on the UNESCO website shows a smaller area, later official documents such as the 2016 mission report use the full size one; size in hectare is also correct)

Author elsslots
Admin
#244 | Posted: 18 Feb 2026 07:45 
Added:
Budj Bim (inc 2 enclaves!)

Author elsslots
Admin
#245 | Posted: 19 Feb 2026 05:01 
Added:
Diamantina
Serra da Capivara

Author elsslots
Admin
#246 | Posted: 20 Feb 2026 06:18 
As part of my daily routine (2 a day!), I added:
Causses and Cevennes (a joy for georefencing)
Sighisoara (map not to scale so hand-drawn)

Author elsslots
Admin
#247 | Posted: 20 Feb 2026 09:54 | Edited by: elsslots 
And our 900th core zone mapped WHS: Um er-Rasas

Quite a typical effort for this stage. I first had to move the 2 location dots, as those on the UNESCO website are incorrect.
Then tried georeferencing with the official map, outcome looked distorted. Found a slightly better map in the nom file. Still not easy as the map is sketchy and the situation on the ground has changed a lot since inscription in 2004.

Time effort: 39 minutes for 2 simple polygons

Author DannyB
Partaker
#248 | Posted: 20 Feb 2026 17:04 
Hi Els, I am just visiting locations associated with the Derwent Valley Mills in Cromford and will explore further sites tmw in the Valley. I note though that the map on the website only lists one location being the Derwent Valley Mill itself just north of Belper town. Is there a reason this WHS site only is listed in this one location and not the whole Valley area, which was on their submission for inscription?

Author elsslots
Admin
#249 | Posted: 20 Feb 2026 17:11 
DannyB:
Is there a reason this WHS site only is listed in this one location and not the whole Valley area, which was on their submission for inscription?

Well, that's precisely the point we try to achieve with the core zone maps: show the whole area instead of a fairly random dot.
However, some WHS are very, very difficult to map. Derwent Valley is one of those.
Look at this official map: https://whc.unesco.org/document/104902 - the course of the valley is split across 11 different maps
I believe we have a (open source) file from UK heritage which covers it all, but we had to discard it earlier because it was too huge to be shown on a website. We can try again.

So the short answer is - we may be able to get it online in the coming weeks, but it is a very tough one.

Author DannyB
Partaker
#250 | Posted: 20 Feb 2026 18:11 
elsslots
Thanks Els - appreciate info and the work you and the team are doing on the core zones. Will upload some photos of locations visited when I finished exploring. I think i have a copy of that same map you are referring too, which i found online.

Author elsslots
Admin
#251 | Posted: 21 Feb 2026 08:09 
A couple more:
Luang Prabang
Great Burkhan Khaldun
Nasca Lines (pretty large area)

Author elsslots
Admin
#252 | Posted: 22 Feb 2026 08:43 
The first set of core zones for the Funerary and memory sites of the First World War is in!
Thanks, JakobF, for the 39 components in the departments/regions of MA, ME, MM, MS, AR

He only had an issue with one of them, ME07, where the maps available showed two different core zones. He went with the larger one.
FYI: all core zones depicted in the huge official map file are in there twice: once on a cadastral map and once on a photo taken from the air

Author elsslots
Admin
#253 | Posted: 22 Feb 2026 09:56 
Did my own first batch as well, 16 components in the regions OI, AI, ND, SM.
No issues, all clear and all were also marked on the OSM base maps, which helped.

A few of note:
- the tiny Danish cemetery
- the even tinier roadside monument SM01 (La Grande Tombe de Villeroy)

Author elsslots
Admin
#254 | Posted: 22 Feb 2026 13:57 | Edited by: elsslots 
And I finished my allocated set with the components in BR, VS, HR
Here, the components HR01 and HR02, and HR03 and HR04, are confusingly depicted as core zones within a core zone.
As all other components are monument-only, I have chosen here to do the same and take the more limited core zone of the 2.

It also has a sort of un-numbered exclave at HR02. This is possibly the Musee Memorial Le Linge (Carte 345) or what looks like a car park (Carte 349). Would need to investigate further about these, possibly in the nom file. -> UPDATE: not mentioned in nom file, so left out of map

Author elsslots
Admin
#255 | Posted: 23 Feb 2026 05:11 
As an intermezzo, JakobF did the Loire Valley, including numerous POIs.
This has really transformed the map on this page.

He also uploaded Carnac.

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