Public GIS data access

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Public GIS data access — 20 published records
ID Source Publisher Coverage Formats Access Terms
A01 Natural Earth Natural Earth Worldwide Shapefile; SQLite and GeoPackage bundles Layer, scale or bundle Public domain (Natural Earth raster/vector data)
A02 TIGER/Line 2026 US Census Bureau United States Shapefile Geography-specific files US public domain (US Census Bureau-produced)
A03 Geofabrik OSM extracts OpenStreetMap contributors / Geofabrik Regional extracts worldwide PBF, change files; selected shapefiles Region Open Database License 1.0 (ODbL)
A04 HydroSHEDS v1 core WWF / HydroSHEDS Near-global; resolution varies north of 60°N Compressed gridded products Tiles or continental products HydroSHEDS v1 Licence Agreement
A05 geoBoundaries gbOpen William & Mary geoLab / community Worldwide GeoJSON, Shapefile, TopoJSON Country and administrative level CC BY 4.0 (gbOpen)
A06 USGS 3DEP USGS United States; product-specific extent DEM GeoTIFF; lidar files; inspect selected product Project or standard tile US public domain (USGS-produced)
A07 USGS National Hydrography USGS US; NHDPlus coverage varies by release Shapefile; file geodatabase; NHDPlus raster archives Hydrologic unit, state or national US public domain (USGS-produced)
A08 USFWS National Wetlands Inventory US Fish & Wildlife Service / contributors US states and territories; Alaska incomplete Zipped GeoPackage or file geodatabase State; larger custom requests separate Not established; check the dataset’s terms
A09 NOAA Digital Coast NOAA Office for Coastal Management / data partners US coastal regions; collection-specific Collection-specific; no uniform format established Selected collection or AOI Dataset-specific terms; no blanket licence established
A10 NASA Earthdata NASA Earth Science Data Systems / DAACs Global, regional and campaign-specific Collection-specific; consult product variables and guide Granule, tile or subset CC0 (unmarked NASA-led mission data; check exceptions)
A11 Copernicus DEM ESA / Copernicus / Airbus Global GLO-30/GLO-90; European EEA-10 GeoTIFF DGED/INSPIRE; DTED Geocell or bulk collection Copernicus DEM ESA–User Licence (instance-specific)
A12 Polar Geospatial Center ArcticDEM Polar Geospatial Center / NGA / NSF Arctic; post-June-2022 Alaska imagery excluded from public strips GeoTIFF; extent indexes in multiple vector formats Strip or mosaic tile NextView / EOCL public DEM release exception
A13 GEBCO GEBCO Bathymetric Compilation Group Global netCDF; GeoTIFF; Esri ASCII raster Global grid, tiles or subset Public domain (GEBCO terms of use)
A14 Natural Resources Canada GeoGratis Natural Resources Canada Canada CanVec SHP/file geodatabase; elevation formats not established here Prepackaged collection files Open Government Licence – Canada
A15 Ordnance Survey OpenData Ordnance Survey Great Britain; product exceptions apply GeoPackage, GML, Shapefile, CSV; product-dependent Product/region Open Government Licence (OGL)
A16 Eurostat GISCO European Commission / Eurostat EU, member state and regional; layer-specific Collection-specific; not all formats checked Dataset vintage and geographic scale GISCO dataset-specific conditions (check the theme)
A17 LINZ Data Service Toitū Te Whenua LINZ / source partners New Zealand Collection-specific; GeoTIFF imagery displayed Layer, tile or chosen extent CC BY 4.0 (most layers)
A18 Geoscience Australia data Geoscience Australia / collaborators Australia and offshore regions Collection-specific; no uniform format established Dataset or service CC BY 4.0 (GA-produced; stated exceptions)
A19 WorldPop WorldPop / University of Southampton Global, regional and bespoke country products GeoTIFF; CSV for some datasets Country/product/year or bespoke release CC BY 4.0
A20 Overture Maps Overture Maps Foundation / upstream contributors Worldwide with uneven feature completeness GeoParquet documented; query/export tools separate Release/theme partition or spatial query ODbL; CDLA Permissive 2.0; other theme/source terms