Geographic Data Sources
U.S. Geographic Data
- Census Bureau Cartographic Boundary Files
- ESRI Download Census 2000 Shapefiles
- ESRI Data Products
- Provides a full spectrum of ready-to-use geospatial data products delivered with the license for ESRI's ArcGIS. At the University of Colorado contact the ITS Software Site Licensing Office
- IPUMS Geographic Tools
- Boundary files for the most commonly used areas for IPUMS data
- National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS)
- A project to create and freely disseminate a database incorporating all available aggregate census information for the United States between 1790 and 2000
- Contextual Data Portal
- Ready access to U.S. contextual data and related geographic data
- Social Explorer
- Visually display the demographic change that has occurred in the U.S. since 1790 through the present
- US County-level data in ICPSR archive:
- Only Accessible from an ICPSR member IP addresses. County Characteristics, 2000-2007 [United States] Study No. 20660
- National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD)
- NACJD has a collection of spatially referenced data
- FBI Crime in the United States, 2005
- From Uniform Crime Reports of Offenses Known to Police
- National Center for Health Statistics DataWarehouse
- Data and Statistics
- National Center for Education Statistics SDDS
- School Districts Demographics System
- National Center for Education Statistics CCD
- Common Core of Data
- US Maps and Data Geodata.gov
- Your One Stop for Finding and Using Geographic Data Search for federal, state, and local geographic data
- US Department of Agriculture: Natural Resources Conservation Service Geospatial Data Gateway Home
- Provides One Stop Shopping for natural resources or environmental data
- National Library of Medicine-Data from the EPA's Toxic Release Inventory (TRI)
- TOXMAP
- Provides TRI data about specific locations and specific chemicals on the Facilities, Releases and Trends pages (located on the bar under the main menu)
- TOXNET
- Allows users to search TRI chemical names, CAS Registry Numbers, TRI data years, and/or details about the releasing facility
- EPA TRI Explorer
- Offers custom reports on Releases, Waste Transfer, and Waste Quantity
- EPA Envirofacts
- Provides simple and advanced queries and reports for TRI data. Find them on the right under "Advanced Capabilities"
- EPA's TRI data site
- Gives the user different ways to download Toxic Chemical Release Inventory data
- Scorecard Pollution Information Site
- Popular resource for information about pollution problems and toxic chemicals
World Geographic Data
- ESRI Data Products
- Provides a full spectrum of ready-to-use geospatial data products delivered with the license for ESRI's ArcGIS. At the University of Colorado contact ITS Software Site Licensing Office
- Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
- Provides downloadable data in both GIS and non-GIS format
- Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
- SEDAC's mission is to develop and operate applications that support the integration of socieoeconomic and earth science data and to serve as an "information gateway" between the earth sciences and social sciences
- Gridded Population of the World (GPW)
- In this Gridded Population of the World (GPW) data set, the distribution of human population is converted from national or subnational units to a series of georeferenced quadrilateral grids
- FGDC National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
- A collection of over 250 spatial data servers, that have digital geographic data primarily for use in GIS, image processing systems, and other modelling software
- GIS Data Depot
- Provides free and fee spatial data for many parts of the world
- Global Mapping
- Created by the International Steering Committee for Global Mapping (ISCGM), provids spatial data in VPF (vector) and BIL (raster) formats. Registration is required for downloading, but all data is free
- Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF)
- The GLCF develops and distributes remotely sensed satellite data and products concerned with land cover from the local to global scales
- GEO Data Portal
- Authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments with more than 400 variables
- UN Food and Agricultural Organization (AQUASTAT)
- Contains spatial information related to the field of water resources and irrigation
- Africa Data Dissemination Service
- The Famine Early Warning Systems Network provides various data and spatial data with the goal of strengthening the abilities of foreign countries and regional organizations to manage risk of food insecurity through the provision of timely and analytical early warning and vulnerability information
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