Collecting GeoData¶
Geodata Open Data sources¶
OpenStreetMap¶
From openstreetmap.org: “OpenStreetMap provides map data for thousands of web sites, mobile apps, and hardware devices. OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world. OpenStreetMap is open data: you are free to use it for any purpose as long as you credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors. If you alter or build upon the data in certain ways, you may distribute the result only under the same licence.”
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MapBox.js¶
Mapbox.js is a library for fast & interactive maps. Built on top of Leaflet, Mapbox.js is Open source and available on GitHub.
PDOK Open Data¶
From pdok.nl: “Public Services On the Map (PDOK) is a platform for accessing geo data sets of Dutch governments. This is current and reliable data for both the public and private sector. PDOK makes digital geo-information available as data services and files. The PDOK services are based on open data and are therefore freely available to everyone.
At PDOK you will find open data sets from the [Dutch] government with current geo-information. These datasets are accessible via geo web services, RESTful APIs and available as downloads and linked data.”
Open Data Stack Exchange¶
Need open data? Ask for it! Post your queries here: https://opendata.stackexchange.com/
Open Environmental and Earth Observation data¶
From digital-geography.com: “Recently there has been a wide spread adoption of Open Access or Open Data policies for environmental and Earth Observation data. With these developments we are seeing a paradigm shift towards a data-centric Environmental Observation Web, where data is semantically enriched thus enabling the consumption, production and reuse of environmental observations in cross-domain applications. We are also seeing the proliferation of data portals and catalogues:
CBS Open Data¶
From opendata.cbs.nl: “As the national statistical office, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) provides reliable statistical information and data to produce insight into social issues, thus supporting the public debate, policy development and decision-making while contributing to prosperity, well-being and democracy.
CBS was established in 1899 in response to the need for independent and reliable information that advances the understanding of social issues. This is still the main role of CBS. Through time, CBS has grown into an innovative knowledge institution, with continuous adoption of new technologies and developments in order to safeguard the quality of its data and its independent position.”
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Kaggle¶
From kaggle.com: “Kaggle offers a no-setup, customizable, Jupyter Notebooks environment. Access free GPUs and a huge repository of community published data & code.”
Geodata repositories¶
For a large list of geospatial data sources, see here.
Natural Earth¶
From naturalearthdata.com: “Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10 million (1 cm = 100 km), 1:50 million, and 1:110 million map scales. Natural Earth’s data set contains integrated vector and raster mapping data.”
UNEP Environmental Data Explorer¶
geodata.grid.unep.ch: “Includes global forest cover, global potential evapotranspiration, global average monthly temperatures, dams, watershed boundaries, and much more. Use the advanced search to select geospatial data sets. Provided by the United Nations Environment Programme.”
OpenTopography¶
opentopography.org: “OpenTopography facilitates community access to high-resolution, Earth science-oriented, topography data, and related tools and resources. Find high-resolution, Earth science-based, topography data, and related tools and resources. Available as dense point clouds and DEMs.”
World Bank Geodata¶
sourceforge.net: “A wide range of World Bank datasets: schooling and financial data, etc.”
Gridded Population of the World¶
columbia.edu: “Dataset from NASA’s Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center includes raw population, population density, historic, current and predicted.”
OpenStreetMap¶
openstreetmap.org: “Crowdsourced data for the whole world including most things you’d find on a standard local paper map: points of interest, buildings, roads and road names, ferry routes etc.”
World Port Index¶
National (US) Geospatial-Intelligence Agency - Maritime Safety Office: “Contains the location and physical characteristics of, and the facilities and services offered by major ports and terminals worldwide, from the United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.”
OpenLandMap¶
openlandmap.org: “World’s environmental data representing land mask (land cover, vegetation, soil, climate, terrain data and similar)”
4TU.ResearchData¶
From researchdata.4tu.nl: “4TU.ResearchData is an international data repository for science, engineering and design. Its services include curation, sharing, long-term access and preservation of research datasets. These services are available to anyone around the world. In addition, 4TU.ResearchData also offers training and resources to researchers to support them in making research data findable, accessible, interoperable and reproducible (FAIR).”
Zenodo¶
From zenodo.org: “Built and developed by researchers, to ensure that everyone can join in Open Science. The OpenAIRE project, in the vanguard of the open access and open data movements in Europe was commissioned by the EC to support their nascent Open Data policy by providing a catch-all repository for EC funded research. CERN, an OpenAIRE partner and pioneer in open source, open access and open data, provided this capability and Zenodo was launched in May 2013.”