Open geospatial data download catalog
Below are the major sources of open geospatial data download sites. If you know more, Please send the pull request to this repo.
| S.N. | Site | Description | Data |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | HOT export tool (OSM data) | The Export Tool is an open service that creates customized extracts of up-to-date OSM data in various file formats. Download and use the data simply by crediting the OpenStreetMap contributors. | shapefile (.shp), GeoPackage (.gpkg), Garmin (.img), Google Earth (.kml), OSM (.pbf), MAPS.ME (.mwm), OsmAnd (.obf), MBTiles (.mbtiles) |
| 2. | USGS Earth Explorer | For satellite and aerial imagery, the USGS Earth Explorer is one of the largest free sources of data. | Landsat (.tiff), Sentinal(.tiff), DEM (.tiff), Point cloud (.tiff), Aerial imagery |
| 3. | DIVA-GIS | DIVA-GIS is a free computer program for mapping and geographic data analysis. With DIVA-GIS you can make maps of the world, or of a very small area, using, for example, state boundaries, rivers, a satellite image, and the locations of sites where an animal species was observed. | administrative boundaries, roads, railroads, altitude, land cover, population density, Elevation data (90M resolution), Global climate data |
| 4. | The Humanitarian Data Exchange | The Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) is an open platform for sharing data across crises and organisations. | .shp, .tif, .csv, .xls, .pdf |
| 5. | Natural Earth | Data themes are available in three levels of detail. For each scale, themes are listed on Cultural, Physical, and Raster category pages. | cultural (.shp), physical(.shp) raster(.tif) |
| 6. | Open Topography | Provides a portal to high spatial resolution topographic data and tools. | Point cloud, DEM (.tif), USGS 3DEP |
| 7. | SASPlanet | SASPlanet is a program designed for viewing and downloading high-resolution satellite imagery and conventional maps submitted by such services as Google Maps, DigitalGlobe, Kosmosnimki, Yandex.Maps, Yahoo! Maps, VirtualEarth, Gurtam, OpenStreetMap, eAtlas, Genshtab maps, iPhone maps, Navitel maps, Bings Maps (Bird's Eye) etc. | High resolution satellite imagery (.kmz, .png, .jpeg, .geotiff) |
| 8. | UNEP Environmental Data Explorer | The Environmental Data Explorer is the authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. | climate, disaster, ecosystem etc mostly in world extent |
| 9. | Copernicus Open Access Hub | Sentinel-2 is the highest resolution satellite imagery available to the public for free. Its interface is the Copernicus Open Access Hub. | Sentinal (tiff) |
| 10. | Terra Populus | Terra Populus (TerraPop for short) integrates census data from over 160 countries around the world. In fact, it spans up to six decades for household-level and aggregate data for more than 80 countries. | Environmental, Land use, Land cover, Climate |
| 11. | FAO GeoNetwork | It is the portal of free GIS data from the United Nations. The focus of GeoNetwork is to improve global sustainable development. For example, global agriculture, food security, and fisheries are some of its key free GIS data. | Agriculture, fisheries, land resource GIS data |
| 12. | CKAN | This is a demo site for CKAN, the leading Open Data portal sofware. Data hosted on this site might be deleted at any time! | .geojson, kml, .geotiff, .shp, .csv |
| 13. | PALSAR Forest/Non-Forest map | A very detailed (50m resolution) forest map for the whole globe, created from SAR data. | PSRFITS |
| 14. | UNEP WCMC | Variety of datasets from the United Nations Environment Programme including global wetlands, global distribution of coral reefs, mangrove distributions and more. | Dryland, Biogeographic, Mountains, Forest, Wetland |
| 15. | UNEP GEOdata | A wide range of data from the United Nations Environment Programme including Nighttime Lights, Pollutant Emissions, Commercial Shipping Activity, Protected Areas and Administrative Boundaries. To get data, choose Advanced Search and select Geospatial Data Sets from the top drop-down link | environment, oceans, elevation, society, climatoogy, meterology |
| 16. | GADM | Global administrative boundaries, with extensive attribute sets. Covers countries and up to four levels of internal administrative boundary (states, departments, counties etc). | Administrative boundary (.shp, .rds, .kml, geopackage) |
| 17. | World Borders Dataset | World country borders with attributes including country codes (FIPS, ISO etc), area and populations. | Administrative boundary (.shp) |
| 18. | Global Land Use Dataset | Gridded data at 0.5 degree resolution showing population density, potential natural vegetation, cropland extent, grazing land extent, built-up land extent, crop extent (for 18 major crops) and land suitability for cultivation | Veretation, cropland extent, built-up land extent etc. |
| 19. | OSM Metro Extracts | City-sized extracts of the OpenStreetMap dataset, updated weekly for cities across the world | .geojson, OSM (.PBF) |
| 20. | Geofabrik | OSM data extracts which are updated everyday | .shp,.geojson, OSM (.PBF) |
| 21. | data.gov.au | Data.gov.au is the central source of Australian open government data. Anyone can access the anonymised public data published by federal, state and local government agencies. | csv, kml, shp, shapefile, xls, MapInfo, wms, wfs, csv, pGDB, tab, dat, misc, ArcGIS-grid, %grid%, %dat%, %tab%, %misc% |