| AirData Beta |
Open data for international development |
| Buenos Aires Data |
Buenos Aires Open Data Portal |
| Center for National Geographic Information |
Download center for National Center for Geographic Information (CNIG) |
| Columbia University Geospatial Datasets |
Digital Social Sciences Center for New York City Numeric and Spatial Data |
| GeoBlacklight |
A multi-institutional open-source collaboration building a better way to find and share geospatial data |
| GeoData |
Greek open source geospatial data |
| GeoGig |
Open source geospatial data management tool |
| Global Administrative Areas |
Spatial database of the world’s administrative areas and boundaries |
| The Global Biodiversity Information Facility |
GBIF provides a portal to thousands of collections, and millions of biodiversity records, for nature-based data |
| Global Forest Watch |
Global Forest Watch open data portal, partnered with the World Resources Institute |
| Global Terrorism Database |
Database information of domestic and international terrorist events around the world |
| The Guardian Datablog |
Analysis of popular American and international news resources |
| Harvard Election Data Archive |
Excellent source of elections data for races around the United States |
| HUD.gov |
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) datasets. Additionally, viewHUD opendata |
| IDEE Metadata Catalog |
The Spanish Spatial Data Infrastructure catalogue of geographical metadata |
| International GIS Data |
University of Pennsylvania International library of GIS data |
| International Monetary Fund |
IMF eLibrary of datasets and publications |
| Land Matrix |
Land Matrix data points by targeted region |
| List of GIS data sources |
A list of GIS data sources (and geoportals) from Wikipedia |
| National Weather Service GIS Data Portal |
National Weather Service downloadable datasets in GIS formats (shapefile, web services, and KML) |
| Natural Earth Data |
Data for borders, coastlines, cities, and many other useful collections |
| New York City DOT |
NYC Department of Transportation open data access |
| New York City Polygons |
NYC Department of City Planning district and metadata shapefiles |
| NYC OpenData |
New York City datasets including information about business, government, education, environment, health, housing, and so on |
| Open Data BCN |
Open data catalog from Barcelona’s City Hall service |
| OpenDataCache |
A list of cities with open data portals. Note: Most of this data is not explicitly geographic, but useful if you want to use this data as a resource to create your own datasets |
| OpenStreetMap |
City data, including polygons for neighborhoods and cities, roads, and even lampposts |
| Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
OECD publisher of books and journals related to countries, economic surveys, and public policy data |
| OSM Building Footprints |
Interactive example of an overpass turbo query |
| Points Data |
The “all_month.csv” download file, containing example earthquake data |
| Polygon Data |
City Lots shapefiles, provided by the City and County of San Francisco |
| Portal de Datos abiertos del Ayuntamiento de Madrid |
Open data catalog provided by the Madrid City Council |
| United Nations |
UN public databases and country data services information |
| United Nations WHO |
United Nations World Health Organization data repository for Global Health Observatory (GHO) data |
| US Census American Fact Finder |
A step-by-step guide from the United State Census Bureau for locating and downloading geography datasets |
| US Census Tiger Boundary Files |
Spatial extracts from TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing) products |
| US Climate Data |
Data and resources related to climate change, provided by Data.GOV |
| US Election Data |
The Harvard Election Data Archive website, which contains data from United States elections |
| US Federal Reserve Economic Data |
Economic research data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Missouri |
| US Government |
The home of the U.S. Government’s open resources for data related to agriculture, ecosystems, education, health, finance, energy and so on |
| USGS National Atlas |
The National Map source for topographic information |
| World Bank |
World bank open data about development in countries around the globe |
| World Geospatial Datasets |
Countries, cities, codes, flags, languages, latitude/longitude, etc. |
