Open Geospatial Data

A group for open geospatial data with an emphasis on use in teaching and research.

Want to participate? Get in contact with Jo Walsh (jo dot walsh at ed dot ac dot uk) or Jonathan Gray (jonathan dot gray at okfn dot org)

Datasets

14 datasets found.

Flickr Shapefiles    GeoJSON

About All of Flickr's shapefiles. For more information see: http://code.flickr.com/blog/2011/01/08/flickr-shapefiles-public-dataset-2-0/ Openness Under CC0. Website says: To the...

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Landsat Data   

Description Landsat ETM+, TM, and MSS data are available from USGS for free. Base data page leads on to: http://eros.usgs.gov/products/satellite/landsat_ortho.html Not entirely clear...

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Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Elevation Data   

Description From http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/: ... The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) obtained elevation data on a near-global scale to generate the most complete...

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Geograph British Isles   

About The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland, and you can be...

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GeoNames    zip

The geonames.org geographical database is available for download free of charge under a creative commons attribution license. It contains over eight million geographical names and...

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GRASS GIS North Carolina Dataset   

We developed a completely new free geospatial dataset and substituted all Spearfish (SD) examples in the previous editions with this new, much richer North Carolina (NC, USA) data set....

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The Historic County Borders Project (UK)   

No specific permission is required [to use or redistribute the data]. However, the Historic Counties Trust would appreciate an appropriate acknowledgement of the use of the data, along...

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Natural Earth: Public Domain Vector and Raster Data    zip zip

Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a...

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OpenStreetMap   

About OpenStreetMap (OSM) is aimed at creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you think of as...

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Placeopedia.com - Connecting Wikipedia articles with their locations   

Description Geolocations for wikipedia articles. Openness: OPEN License: listed as CC by-sa 2.5 on http://www.placeopedia.com/data/ Access: good. See...

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US State Department - Humanitarian Information Unit    Shapefile Shapefile Shapefile

The unit generally provides reports and mapping tools to support emergency response. These resources are from its data page. From its website: The mission of the Humanitarian Information...

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UK Postboxes   

About 116088 postboxes in the UK. Converted to Tab Separated Values (TSV) format. http://edwardbetts.com/postboxes/postboxes.tsv Original PDF versions were published in response...

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USA - National Atlas Data   

About Front page says: An atlas that gathers and presents information designed to help us understand continental-scale environmental issues has been released by the Commission for...

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