California Data U.S.
Data
Shared
Data Sets hosted by the GIS/ISC Lab
at UCSC
- Great selection of local, California, U.S., and World data. Available from UCSC
computers only.
California Data
- California
Digital 1:24K Elevation Models (DEM)
- Selected quads available for download from UC Berkeley plus
links to more quads, shareware, and more.
- California
Digital Raster Graphics (DRG)
- Download USGS 7.5 Minute Digital Raster Graphics By County.
From CERES.
- CASIL: California Spatial
Information Library
- California GIS data resources.
- California Statewide
Database
- The redistricting database for the state of California. Contains
downloadable Census data including Census 2000 block geography,
Assembly, Congressional, County and precinct files. File formats:
ArcInfo, MapInfo, Maptitude
- Santa
Clara County Planning Office Maps & GIS
- An interactive mapping application that allows you to make a map of your property and links to other Santa Clara County maps in .pdf format, including zoning maps, geologic hazards zones maps and data.
- Santa Cruz County
GIS
- An online interactive map of Santa Cruz County planning information.
- U.S. GeoData for California
- Ftp access to USGS data for California, including:
1:250K
Digital Elevation Models (DEM);
1:2M
and 1:100K
Digital Line Graphs (DLG);
1:250K
and 1:100K
Land Use and Land Cover (LULC)
U.S. Data
- Alaska Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
- Downloadable files, tools, and a good selection of related links.
- U.S.
Redistricting Census 2000 TIGER/LineŽ Shapefiles
- from the Geography Network. Read
about the data available.
- or from Proximity
One.
- GIS Data for
Water Resources
- Browse or search USGS spatial data related to water resources.
- National
Atlas
- TheNational Atas provdes a "summary of national-scale
geographical information." Download
data or use the interactive
atlas.
- U.S. GeoData
- Ftp access to USGS data, including:
1:250K Digital Elevation Models (DEM);
1:2M Digital Line Graphs (DLG);
1:100K Digital Line Graphs (DLG); and
1:250K and 1:100,000-Scale Land Use and Land Cover (LULC)
California Data
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World Data GIS
Organizations and Other Web Resources
World Data
- Atlas of Canada
- Interactive maps, gazetteer, and data downloads.
- Digital
Chart of the World
- From the Pennsylvania State University Libraries: DCW 1993 version 1:1,000,000.
- Global Land
Cover Characterization
- 1-km resolution global land cover characteristics data base.
- Paleoenvironmental
Atlas of Beringia
- Interactive atlas and downloadable data that "provides historical
and geologic information on past climates and environments in Beringia
(northwestern North America and northeastern Asia)".
- Wind Energy
Resource Atlas of South Asia
- Available in PDF format or for use with ArcExplorer (with
free download).
- World
Atlas of Biodiversity
- A map-based view of global biodiversity from the UNEP World
Conservation Monitoring Centre. (large files) Read
more about it.
Can't find it here? Try these other GIS
web resources.
- BAAMA: Bay Area Automated Mapping Association
- An organization of GIS professionals in the San Francisco Bay Region. Their web pages provide links to GIS data and models, job postings, GIS news, and more.
- CCJDC: Central
Coast Joint Data Committee
- "A partnership of public and private agencies who agree to
share spatial data about the 5-county region of the Central
Coast of California, from San Mateo through Santa Cruz, San
Benito and Monterey to San Luis Obispo County."
- Current
Literature on Geographic Information Systems and Libraries
- A bibliography from the Lloyd Reeds Map Collection at McMaster
University
- FGDC's National Geospatial
Data Clearinghouse
- The Federal Geographic
Data Committee's searchable collection of spatial data servers.
- The
Geography Network
- Free and custom data available, plus a great bibliography of other data sources.
- GIS bibliography
- A searchable and browsable collection of journal articles,
books, conference proceedings, presentations, theses, and other materials about GIS.
Contains some full text articles.
- GIS Data Depot
- Free and "premium" downloads and custom CDs of geospatial
information.
- GIS Internet Resources
- A comprehensive list of GIS resources, including data sources
and GIS companies, associations, and government web pages. Put
together by the U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center
- Infomine:
Maps & GIS Resources
- Infomine is a cooperative library effort to select Internet
resources relevant to university-level research.
- Illinois Institute
of Technology GIS Lab & Resource Center
- Information about GIS and national, Illinois and Chicago data.
- Stanford
Branner Library GIS Home Page
- GIS site of the week, introduction to GIS, GIS tools, and
a great list of GIS
data on the web.
- The
Map Place, from the Government of British Columbia
- Download spatial data or view in an interactive online map. Focuses on geological maps of British Columbia and offers interactive maps of the world, Canada, and the United States.
- UC Berkeley Map Library's
GIS Home Page
- UCLA
Map Library's GIS Links
- Most downloads are available
only to UCLA affiliates, but this page of links to other
resources is excellent.
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