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Online Spatial Data by Country

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 then download the output.

Australian Atlas of mineral resources, mines and processing centres

Australian Bureau of Statistics

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

CanSIS - Canadian Soil Information System Online Mapping Applications: Soil Landscapes of Canada, Plant hardiness zones, ecosystem framework, etc., A National Ecological Framework for Canada

StatsCan - Statistics Canada: Maps and Geography

Nova Scotia Land Database - available from Nova Scotia Natural Resources

China

E-city: 3-D maps of Chinese cities

American Geographical Society Library, Digital Spatial Data, China Data: descriptions about and links to:

Harvard China Data Center

UM-SIC China Data Network: The UMCDC-SIC China information network is 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 the US-China information sharing and support those U.S. and Chinese scholars in China studies.

Shanghai City maps

France

Geoportail - Le portail des territoires et des citoyens; aerial photographs and topographic maps hosted by L'Institut giographique national (IGN)

Germany

Federal Election Commission
 Bundeswahl = Federal Election
 Landwahl = State/Regional Election
 Lokalwahl = Local Election

India

Election GIS Digital Data

Census GIS India - an interactive web-based GIS on Census of India 2001

Italy

Census maps and statistics: http://cartema2.istat.it/home_cartema/iisstart.htm

Japan

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Statistics Bureau, Geographic Information

Mexico

Tijuana River Watershed GIS Database: The Tijuana River Watershed GIS Database provides both physical and human data which characterize this binational watershed. Data are gzipped Arc/Info export files.

US/Mexico Border Transportation Planning (FHWA)

Russia

Land Resources of Russia : organized by socio-economy; natural conditions; and land endowment

Sweden

National Atlas of Sweden

United Kingdom

Go-Geo: Go-Geo! is 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.

Contact information for National Mapping Agencies, collected by the World Health Organization

Princeton Digital Map in Geospatial Information Center - many additional links by country can be found on this website.

Some websites for different countries are in the native language for that country. The Language Translation and Web Page Translation page, powered by WorldLingo, may be able to translate it for you.

 

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