- Aeronautical charts
- Agriculture:
http://www.neonscience.org/data/airborne-data
- Altimeters, laser: LVIS,
ICESAT, and ICESAT-2
- Arctic/Antarctic:
- Archaeology
- Bathymetry
- Beach profiles
- Biogeophysical
http://toyo.mediasfrance.org/?-Biogeophysical-Products,52-
- Biology
- Fish and Wildlife Service GIS:
http://www.fws.gov/gis/data/national/
- NOAA West Coast:
https://www.westcoast.fisheries.noaa.gov/maps_data/maps_and_gis_data.html
- Northward migrations:
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/
- Wildlife tracking: https://www.movebank.org/
- Marine tracking
http://www.gtopp.org/
- MoveBank: animal tracking data,
https://www.movebank.org/
-
MEOP "Marine Mammals
Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole"
-
Tree species ranges
- World Ecoregions:
http://www.worldwildlife.org/science/data.cfm
a shapefile
Olson,
D. M., Dinerstein, E., Wikramanayake, E. D., Burgess, N. D., Powell, G.
V. N., Underwood, E. C., D'Amico, J. A., Itoua, I., Strand, H. E.,
Morrison, J. C., Loucks, C. J., Allnutt, T. F., Ricketts, T. H., Kura,
Y., Lamoreux, J. F., Wettengel, W. W., Hedao, P., Kassem, K. R. 2001.
Terrestrial ecoregions of the world: a new map of life on Earth.
Bioscience 51(11):933-938.
- BLM PLSS
(Public Land Survey System)
- Boundaries
- Building outlines
- CDL--Cropland Data Layer (US)
- Cities:
Lat, Long, Name, Population
- Climate and weather
- Coastal topography
- Coastlines
- Contours
(see http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2012/5167/)
- Corruption:
https://www.transparency.org/cpi2018
- Country outlines
-
Natural Earth has a single shapefile with all countries, with two
and three letter country codes
-
http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php
-
GADM requires download of the entire world (1.2 GB for the zipped
shapefile), but then you can use just the level-0 for country outlines
(500 MB), although this might have much more detail than needed for
small scale maps.
- County outlines
- Crime
- Crisis support
- Dams:
- DEMs--Digital Elevation Models (Key
Global Regional DEMs)
- Disaster Risk:
- DRGs (scanned maps)
-
Drought
- Economic and demographic data
- Ecosystems: I was not able to actually find the coastline data (it might
be in a monstrous mpk file, a nice proprietary ESRI product)
- Global Ecosystems,
https://rmgsc.cr.usgs.gov/ecosystems/datadownload.shtml ESRI mpk
files, which QGIS might read
-
Roger Sayre, Suzanne Noble, Sharon Hamann, Rebecca Smith, Dawn Wright,
Sean Breyer, Kevin Butler, Keith Van Graafeiland, Charlie Frye, Deniz
Karagulle, Dabney Hopkins, Drew Stephens, Kevin Kelly, Zeenatul Basher,
Devon Burton, Jill Cress, Karina Atkins, D. Paco Van Sistine, Beverly
Friesen, Rebecca Allee, Tom Allen, Peter Aniello, Irawan Asaad, Mark
John Costello, Kathy Goodin, Peter Harris, Maria Kavanaugh, Helen
Lillis, Eleonora Manca, Frank Muller-Karger, Bjorn Nyberg, Rost Parsons,
Justin Saarinen, Jac Steiner & Adam Reed (2019) A
new 30 meter resolution global shoreline vector and associated global
islands database for the development of standardized ecological coastal
units, Journal
of Operational Oceanography, 12:sup2, S47-S56, DOI: 10.1080/1755876X.2018.1529714
- Energy
- Environmental Atlas, EPA
https://enviroatlas.epa.gov/enviroatlas/interactivemap/
environmental and demographic data
- Fires (wildfire/forest fire)
- Flood
- Forests
- GADM: global administrative boundaries
- Gazetteer
- Geodetic survey control
- Geoid/Gravity
- Geology
- Glaciers
- Global DEMs
- Google Earth data files
- Hazards:
https://hazards.geoplatform.gov/portal/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=ddf915a24fb24dc8863eed96bc3345f8
EPA county and census tract rankings of hazards (using likelihood and
potential loss); shapefiles available
- Health
- Historic
map scans
- History
- Hydrography
- Hydrologic predictions
-
Irrigated
land percentages
- KML for Google Earth
- Lakes and wetlands from WWF:
https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/global-lakes-and-wetlands-database
- Land cover
- Landslides
- Laser altimetry: LVIS,
ICESAT, and ICESAT-2
- Lidar Point Cloud Data Sources
- Mangroves:
https://data.unep-wcmc.org/datasets/4
- Marine regions and gazetters
- Nautical charts
- Night lights
- Noise: online maps, unclear how to get underdlying grids
- Oceanography
- Online historic GIS
- Piracy NGA's Anti-Shipping Activity Messages (ASAM):
http://msi.nga.mil/NGAPortal/MSI.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=msi_portal_page_65--available
as shapefile or KMZ
- Planets and moons
- PLSS
(Public Land Survey System)
- Population:
- Public Health/GIS
- Redistricting
- Redlining (Home
Owners’ Loan Corporation, HOLC maps)
-
Rivers and drainage basins
- Roads
-
Sea Ice and Glaciers
- Settlement footprints
- SST or Sea
Surface Temperature
-
Shorelines
- Terrorism: Global Terrorism Database
- Tidal flats (change detection
from Landsat time series)
- Urban expansion atlas has GIS data.http://www.atlasofurbanexpansion.org/
- USTopo (DRGs)
- Vegetation inventories
- Water
- Weather and climate
- Wetlands:
https://www.fws.gov/wetlands/index.html
- WMS servers
- Zip codes: ZCTA, Zip codes tabulation areas: TIGER
files
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