Database with extensive links to government agencies with data sets on the themes of agriculture, environment, chemistry, climate, biodiversity, economy, society, geography, history for the UK and specifically Scotland. Data is in a variety of formats.
This source of downloadable GIS shapefiles uses a mapping interface to identify your area of interest prior to selecting and downloading files. Note: some of the selections seemed a bit buggy on certain browsers, possible due to Java issues. (Jim P, 2009)
Basic but useful data for all countries, plus links to climate, species, elevation, and satellite data, all downloadable for free in ESRI shapefile format (also for use with their DIVA-GIS software). (Jim Proctor, October 2009)
Interactive mapping interface with links to data download from multiple sources. I found some download links to be more understandable than others. (Jim Proctor, Oct 2009)
"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 variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with GIS software"
"Quantum GIS is an open-source GIS system that provides a continously growing number of capabilities provided by core functions and plugins. You can visualize, manage, edit, analyse data, and compose printable maps." (Peter Vidito, Summer 2010)
This page is an index to Geoscience Australia's National/International scale datasets and applications that are available online. Datasets provided are in the areas of energy, environmental, geochemistry, geochronology, geodesy, geomagnetism, geology, geophysics, earthquakes, landslides, floods, nuclear monitoring, marine and coastal, minerals, pertoleum, satellite imagery, and topography.
The database has data in the areas of population, poverty, land cover, land form, base data, elevation, rainfall, biodiversity, wildlife, tourism, water, irrigation, hydropower, other data (biomass, water distribution, market centers, and charcoal sources). No account needed.
Geocommunity has free, downloadable data in the areas of administrative, political boundaries, DEMs, geologic, hydrography, land use/land cover, place name gazetteer, transportation, and utilities. This data can be found at the national level and state level. Use the LCENVS account. All data is downloaded in the E00 format.
Geocommunity has free, downloadable data in the areas of administrative, political boundaries, DEMs, geologic, hydrography, land use/land cover, place name gazetteer, transportation, and utilities. This data can be found at the national level. Use the LCENVS account. All data is downloaded in the E00 format.
Geocommunity has free, downloadable data in the areas of administrative, political boundaries, DEMs, geologic, hydrography, land use/land cover, place name gazetteer, transportation, and utilities. This data can be found at the national level. Use the LCENVS account. All data is downloaded in the E00 format.
Geocommunity has free, downloadable data in the areas of administrative, political boundaries, DEMs, geologic, hydrography, land use/land cover, place name gazetteer, transportation, and utilities. This data can be found at the national level. Use the LCENVS account. All data is downloaded in the E00 format.
"Wiki.GIS.com is a resource for all GIS-related information. Wiki.GIS.com seeks to involve the visitor or contributor in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration. Any content that is contributed to wiki.GIS.com should be thought of as a work in progress. This wiki site is meant to be a repository for all terms and any content that is related to GIS. Anyone can add pages, make edits, or contribute at whatever level deemed necessary. This allows wiki.GIS.com to remain full of fresh and updated information concerning the world of GIS." (Peter Vidito, Summer 2010)
"Indiemapper is a Web-based app that loads geo-data, allows custom control over mapmaking, and exports static maps in vector and raster formats." (Peter Vidito, Summer 2010)
Geocommunity has free, downloadable data in the areas of administrative, political boundaries, DEMs, geologic, hydrography, land use/land cover, place name gazetteer, transportation, and utilities. This data can be found at the national level. Use the LCENVS account. Download in E00 format.
Geocommunity has free, downloadable data in the areas of administrative, political boundaries, DEMs, geologic, hydrography, land use/land cover, place name gazetteer, transportation, and utilities. This data can be found at the national level. Use the LCENVS account.