MARIS B.V. is a company located in Voorburg (the Netherlands) providing webbased services and applications. MARIS is involved in Marine and Oceanographic Data Management systems on a Pan-European scale and is coordinating a number of EU-funded projects to harmonise and standardise data overview and access. Moreover, MARIS is very active as developer of database, Content Management Systems; website and web based mapping for the tourism sector; government and oil and gas industry.