SHOM maritime altimetric references (RAM)

Use in your agent

Probe SHOM RAM product page in memory. Checked against the provider's documentation on Nov 6, 2026.

Access

• No key. HTTPS GET of the diffusion.shom.fr RAM product page.

Request

curl -sS -L -o shom-ram.html 'https://diffusion.shom.fr/references-altimetriques-maritimes-ram.html'

Format

Product page HTML describing PDF/Shapefile/CSV packages plus WMS/WMTS/WFS endpoints; not a JSON REST body.

Load into pandas (in memory)

Needs Python 3 with requests and pandas. The provider's terms limit storage or leave it unclear, so this snippet does not write a file.

"""Probe SHOM RAM product page in memory (Licence Ouverte; writes no file)."""
import requests
import pandas as pd

URL = "https://diffusion.shom.fr/references-altimetriques-maritimes-ram.html"
r = requests.get(URL, timeout=30)
r.raise_for_status()
ok = "Licence Ouverte" in r.text or "licence ouverte" in r.text.lower()
df = pd.DataFrame([{"url": URL, "status": r.status_code, "licence_ouverte_mentioned": ok, "bytes": len(r.content)}])
print(df.to_string(index=False))

Run by us on 2026-11-06 (python 3 | requests). Result: RAM product page returned HTTP 200 on 2026-11-06 and states Licence Ouverte 2.0 (Etalab).

Limits

• Not stated numeric rate limit on the checked diffusion.shom.fr page.

Quirks

• Do not host or commit Shom files in the repo; link and download from diffusion.shom.fr only.
• Open-data products use Licence Ouverte or CC BY-SA depending on the product — read the product page.
• This snippet writes no file; it only probes the HTML entry point in memory.

Terms and attribution

• Product page: "Ce produit est diffusé sous Licence Ouverte (version 2.0 d'avril 2017), définie par la mission Etalab."
• Attribute Shom / cite DOI 10.17183/MAREE_COURANTS_RAM when reusing; this probe does not store or cache Shom payloads.

Sources

• https://diffusion.shom.fr/references-altimetriques-maritimes-ram.html: “Licence Ouverte (version 2.0 d'avril 2017)”
• https://alliance.numerique.gouv.fr/licence-ouverte-open-licence/: “Licence Ouverte / Open Licence”