Country data sites

Free Country GIS Sources

State sites

Caveats on these lists.

Afghanistan

1:250K geologic maps: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/afghan/

Arctic/Antarctica

http://usarc.usgs.gov/
Gazetteers: http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/ (registration required; may have duplicate entries)

Arctic DEM: 2 m strips (multiple times available for change detection), 5 m mosaics

NGA Arctic: http://nga.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=cf2fba21df7540fb981f8836f2a97e25

Austria

http://data.opendataportal.at/dataset

Australia:

http://www.ga.gov.au/
Bathymetry: http://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/marine/bathymetry#

Botswana

Geoscience portal: http://geoscienceportal.geosoft.com/Botswana/search?

Brazil

The Sustainable Landscapes project here in Brazil made some LiDAR datasets (very small in area) available: https://www.paisagenslidar.cnptia.embrapa.br/webgis/

Canada:

http://geobase.ca/ (DEMs, 1:50K and 1:250K; gazetteers; road shapefiles; hydrography shapefiles) (phasing out by Dec 2014)
https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geography/topographic-information/free-data-geogratis/11042
Nova Scotia: https://data.novascotia.ca/browse?q=lidar%20point%20cloud&sortBy=relevance&utf8=%E2%9C%93
New Brunswick lidar: http://geonb.snb.ca/li/index.html
Lidar: https://canadiangis.com/free-canada-lidar-data.php

Denmark

Lidar: http://download.kortforsyningen.dk/ . You will have to set up an account. May have to use ftp download from ftp.kortforsyningen.dk, which might have to be from an internet connection that has "reasonable" (not IT paranoid) security settings.

Estonia

Lidar: multi years, leaf on, leaf off: http://inspire.maaamet.ee/

Finland

https://tiedostopalvelu.maanmittauslaitos.fi/tp/kartta?lang=en Download LAZ files
http://www.flickr.com/photos/65726513@N00/sets/72157622857163259/ images of the lidar 2 m DEMs
http://viestinta2.kpakk.fi/mine/uploads/pdf/kaivosseminaari_esitykset/torstai/vanne/kaivosseminaari_lidar.pdf (Finnish, but understandable for English speakers)

France

http://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/accueil: includes browser with the Cassini map and the 1820-1866 maps. French only.
Marine
- http://diffusion.shom.fr/
- http://data.shom.fr/

Gabon

Forest Atlas: http://gab-data.forest-atlas.org/

Germany

Thuringen: http://geoportal-th.de/ (may respond slowly)
North Westfalen: https://open.nrw/de/startseite

Greenland

Haiti

Haiti earthquake, from RIT, with LAS point clouds, DSMs, and DTMs http://waspftp.cis.rit.edu/

Ireland

Dublin lidar, 300 points per square meter, https://geo.nyu.edu/catalog/nyu_2451_38684

Iceland

http://gatt.lmi.is/geoportal122/catalog/main/home.page
https://gatt.lmi.is/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/home
See also Arctic NGA portal

Italy:

http://www.pcn.minambiente.it/GN/index.php?lan=en English option, but lidar not available for free download (2/2019)

Luxembourg

https://data.public.lu/en/datasets/bd-l-mnt5/

Mexico

http://www.inegi.org.mx/geo/contenidos/datosrelieve/continental/presentacion.aspx has 5 m DSM and DTM, most of country (if broken, try next link)

http://www.beta.inegi.org.mx/temas/mapas/relieve/continental/
http://lidar.guadalajara.gob.mx/ City lidar

Morocco

10 m Sentinel-2 composite, http://due.esrin.esa.int/page_s2composites.php Small (~200MB unregistered tiffs for a number of cites, multi-GB for the northern part of the country, which have registration)
Geologic map, http://www.mediafire.com/file/7vhwkevolkm94bl/g%C3%A9ologie+maroc.zip

Netherlands

ANH1 lidar (4-5 m point spacing) : http://geodata.nationaalgeoregister.nl/ahn1/atom/ahn1_gefilterd.xml
NHN2 lidar (9 points per square meter): http://geodata.nationaalgeoregister.nl/ahn2/atom/ahn2_uitgefilterd.xml No metadata with downloads.
http://www.ahn.nl/common-nlm/viewer.html. Probably projection will be, and you will have to reproject:

Amersfoort / RD New

EPSG::28992

New Zealand

DRGs and shapefiles with map data; 1 m DSM and DTM: http://topo.linz.govt.nz/

Norway

Lidar: https://hoydedata.no/ (Switch to English with button on the upper right, next to Log in)
Topo maps, MrSid: https://kartverket.no/Kart/Hele-Norge-rett-i-lomma/

Poland

http://geoportal.pgi.gov.pl/cbdg/dane/gis

Polar

http://nsidc.org/data/dems/index.html (Greenland and Antarctica)

Saudi Arabia

http://geoportal.sa/GCS/WebPages/Map/FundyViewer.aspx?THEME=Sapphire will do English; could not figure out how to download any data

Slovenia

Lildar: http://gis.arso.gov.si/evode/profile.aspx?id=atlas_voda_Lidar@Arso

Spain

La Rioja: http://www.iderioja.larioja.org/index.php?lang=en
http://centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/locale?request_locale=en (DEMs 5, 25, and 200 m; lots of other data; now has lidar). Has a Java bulk downloader; you get a file, which you click on and it does a Java based download that is fast and convenient.
- Lidar point clouds are UTM, but the LAZ files do not have that information so you will have to add it. There are both RGB and CNIR files, which you will want to separate into different directories.
- Grids in ASC format, which loads slowly and asks about the UTM zone every time, so convert it.
Gipuzko (north) http://b5m.gipuzkoa.net/url5000/en/G_22485/PUBLI&consulta=HAZLIDAR
La Rioja https://www.iderioja.larioja.org/vct/index.php?c=46757a356c32636e39766143325861395a2b352b4c773d3d
Navarra: ftp://ftp.cartografia.navarra.es/5_LIDAR/ (ftp, so your IT might block in browser, but it works)

Sweden

Sweden "Laser Forest Data, 1-2 points/m^2", https://www.lantmateriet.se/en/maps-and-geographic-information/oppna-data/hamta-oppna-geodata/ , horizontal SWERED99 TM (EPSG 3006) and elevations RH2000 height (EPSG code 5613)

Switzerland

Zurich canton lidar

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html
Lidar DSM/DTM at 2 m, 1 m, and 0.5 m resolutions: (with directions on use in MICRODEM)
UK OS DEM (with directions on use in MICRODEM)
Lidar point clouds: http://environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey/#/survey This are in EPSG 27700, which you must convert to UTM in MICRODEM.
Canals: http://data-canalrivertrust.opendata.arcgis.com/

Scotland:

https://maps.nls.uk/ National Library of Scotland, digital maps. Includes map of battlefields in France from the World Wars
https://remotesensingdata.gov.scot/ (includes partial lidar coverage)

Wales: http://lle.gov.wales/Catalogue/Item/LidarCompositeDataset/?lang=en

Viet Nam

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/vietnam/ GeoPDFs of 1:50K AMS sheets

Last revision 2/2/2019