Online Spatial Data by Country

Afghanistan

• Afghanistan Election Data: Election data for Afghanistan running from 2004 to present
• Afghanistan Information Management Service - GIS & Mapping Services: Various administrative boundaries, transportation, cities, and hydrological data

Australia

• Free Data Downloads from Geoscience Australia
• Australian Electoral Commission GIS data
• Australia National Pollutant Inventory: Over 90 different substances that are emitted into the land, air, or water are monitored and reported. The site allows the user to find data, map it, and download the output.
• Australian Mines Atlas: Mineral resources, mines, and processing centers
• Australian Bureau of Statistics
• Atlas of South Australia: Environmental, land use, socioeconomic, and administrative infrastructure data for the province of South Australia.

Canada

• Atlas of Canada
• Geobase: This portal, from Natural Resources Canada, provides free access to geospatial data, including administrative boundaries, digital elevation data, geographical names, Landsat-7 imagery, and the national road network.
• Geogratis
• Canadian Soil Information System (CanSIS) Online Mapping Applications: Soil landscapes, plant hardiness zones, ecosystem framework, etc.
• A National Ecological Framework for Canada
• Statistics Canada (StatsCan)
• Nova Scotia Land Database: Available from Nova Scotia Natural Resources
• Geomatics Yukon: Environmental, forestry, and mining spatial data and imagery for Yukon
• British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines, and Petroleum Resources: Facilitates easy access to the maps and databases of the British Columbian Ministry of Energy and Mines.
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory, CTA Transportation Networks: Geographically-based representations of North American transportation infrastructure suitable for individual modal or multimodal studies. The major components of this data system are analytic link-node networks designed primarily to support routing, traffic, investment, and reliability applications. However, their geographic bases also allow cartographic applications and the association of auxiliary environmental or economic data that are geolocated.

China

• E-city: 3D maps of Chinese cities
• China Dimension (CIESIN at Columbia University)
• Harvard China Data Center
• UMSIC China Data Network: A joint effort by Unversity of Michigan China Data Center and the State Information Center of China. The goal of this project is to promote US-China information sharing and support American and Chinese scholars in China studies.
• Shanghai City

France

• Géoportail: Aerial photographs and topographic maps hosted by L'Institut géographique national (IGN)

Germany

• Federal Election Commission: Bundeswahl = Federal Election, Landwahl = State/Regional Election, Lokalwahl = Local Election
• GeoPortal.Bund Basisviewer
• GeoPortal.Bund Bereitstellung NGDB

India

• Election GIS Digital Data
• Census GIS India: An interactive web-based GIS on Census of India 2001
• National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organization
• Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority

Italy

• Census Maps and Statistics

Japan

• Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Statistics Bureau: Geographic Information
• Japan Sendai Earthquake Portal: In response to the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, on March 11, 2011, the CGA launched a web portal for posting and sharing geographic information and maps of the affected areas. The website has received thousands of hits per day since it went live a few hours after the earthquake. Hundreds of datasets are available at the website, and links to many informative web maps.

Kenya

• World Resources Institute

Mexico

• Tijuana River Watershed GIS Database: Physical and human data which characterize this binational watershed. Data are gzipped Arc/Info export files.
• US/Mexico Border Transportation Planning (FHWA)
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory, CTA Transportation Networks: Geographically-based representations of North American transportation infrastructure suitable for individual modal or multimodal studies. The major components of this data system are analytic link-node networks designed primarily to support routing, traffic, investment, and reliability applications. However, their geographic bases also allow cartographic applications and the association of auxiliary environmental or economic data that are geolocated.

New Zealand

• Geographx: Environmental and geological GIS data layers for New Zealand.

Pakistan

• Pakistan Flood Response: Data related to the Pakistan Flood of 2010 (administrative boundaries, affected areas, hydrology, elevation, etc.)

Portugal

• Instituto Geográfico Português

Russia

• Land Resources of Russia : Organized by socio-economy, natural conditions, and land endowment

Sweden

• National Atlas of Sweden

Ukraine

• Ukrainian Land and Resource Management Center: Various satellite program data for all portions of Ukraine at various time periods

United Kingdom

• Go-Geo:: An online resource discovery tool which allows for the identification and retrieval of records describing the content, quality, condition, and other characteristics of geospatial data that exist with UK tertiary education and beyond
• Public Geodata for the UK: Links maintained by the UK local chapter of OSGEO
• UK Marine Renewable Energy Resources: Indicates the distribution of potential regional resources for the future deployment of renewable energy technologies (wind, wave and tidal)
• Northern Ireland Environment Agency digital datasets

Princeton University DigitalMap and Geospatial Information Center: Many additional links by country can be found on this website.

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