# AGENTS.md - NOAA National Estuarine Research Reserves

Guidance for AI agents and LLMs working with this collection.

## Overview

The 30 reserves of the National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS), a NOAA-state partnership; `sitecode` is the reserve's three-letter code, `leadagency` the managing state agency or university.

Licence CC-PDDC; credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Office for Coastal Management (OCM), via MarineCadastre.gov. Public domain. Processed by Ocean Metrics.

## Find a place

```sql
SELECT * FROM read_parquet('https://storage.oceanmetrics.io/gazetteer/noaa_nerrs/places.parquet')
WHERE name ILIKE '%california%';
```

`place_id` is unique and prefixed; `status` / `status_source` / `status_date` say whether the place is current and
where that is documented. Check `status` before treating a lease or area as live.

## Render on a map

Load `places.pmtiles` (layer `noaa_nerrs`) into MapLibre GL via the PMTiles protocol; `styles/default.json` is a starting style.