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Interesting question, what are good resources to find geo data for different areas around the world?

by Bjoern 13y ago

pierrend 13y ago
To find geo data in Europe you can use: http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/discovery/ http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/discovery/ There are a lot of thematics data from various countries.
pella 13y ago
http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ http://planet.openstreetmap.org/
benjamincburns 13y ago
I needed a rather large test dataset for an aerial imagery basemap, so I went onto USGS's "EarthExplorer" web site [1]. If you need to fetch a lot of data, don't bother trying to download it through the website itself, instead place an order through the "bulk downloader" interface [2]. The order size is limited however, but it was incredibly easy to patch in a simple 'window.setinterval' script through the JS console to make it automatically generate orders from a particular search set. 1: http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov 2: http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/bulk/help http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/bulk/help
olefoo 13y ago
For the US; there is a fairly comprehensive collection geographic data sets available from the National Atlas http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp-1m.html http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp-1m.html all freely available and public domain. And of course the US Census http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger.html http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger.html TIGER/Line dataset. The World Bank http://maps.worldbank.org/ http://maps.worldbank.org/ has maps covering multiple economic indicators, coverage is uneven and it's mostly focused on the global south. http://geocommons.com/ http://geocommons.com/ has a largish assortment of geodata but the curation and search functionality is a bit confusing and they require a login. http://www.statsilk.com/maps/download-free-shapefile-maps http://www.statsilk.com/maps/download-free-shapefile-maps has a number of pointers to other resources.
hnha 13y ago
Depends on what you need. Natural Earth is a great large scale PD dataset.

Interesting question, what are good resources to find geo data for different areas around the world?

by Bjoern 13y ago

Interesting question, what are good resources to find geo data for different areas around the world?

To find geo data in Europe you can use: http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/discovery/ http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/discovery/ There are a lot of thematics data from various countries.

pella 13y ago

http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ http://planet.openstreetmap.org/

benjamincburns 13y ago

I needed a rather large test dataset for an aerial imagery basemap, so I went onto USGS's "EarthExplorer" web site [1]. If you need to fetch a lot of data, don't bother trying to download it through the website itself, instead place an order through the "bulk downloader" interface [2]. The order size is limited however, but it was incredibly easy to patch in a simple 'window.setinterval' script through the JS console to make it automatically generate orders from a particular search set. 1: http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov 2: http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/bulk/help http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/bulk/help

olefoo 13y ago

For the US; there is a fairly comprehensive collection geographic data sets available from the National Atlas http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp-1m.html http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp-1m.html all freely available and public domain. And of course the US Census http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger.html http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger.html TIGER/Line dataset. The World Bank http://maps.worldbank.org/ http://maps.worldbank.org/ has maps covering multiple economic indicators, coverage is uneven and it's mostly focused on the global south. http://geocommons.com/ http://geocommons.com/ has a largish assortment of geodata but the curation and search functionality is a bit confusing and they require a login. http://www.statsilk.com/maps/download-free-shapefile-maps http://www.statsilk.com/maps/download-free-shapefile-maps has a number of pointers to other resources.

hnha 13y ago

Depends on what you need. Natural Earth is a great large scale PD dataset.