GIS Data & Maps - International

World * Canada * Latin America * Europe * Africa * Asia * Australia / New Zealand * Oceans

World coverage

World - data

• CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information - initiative of the Consultative Group for International Agriculture Research (CGIAR), linking the efforts to apply and advance GIS for international sustainable agriculture development, natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, and poverty alleviation in developing countries.
• CIESIN, a non-profit, non-governmental organization providing environmental and socioeconomic data to "help scientists, decision-makers, and the public better understand their changing world."
• Digital Chart of the World Data Server, at the Pennsylvania State University Libraries allows previewing and downloading of boundaries and layers of individual countries, in Arc/INFO export format, from ESRI's Digital Chart of the World data set.
• ESRI - largest research and development organization dedicated to GIS, focusing on producing GIS software
• GISDataDepot - one of the leading online providers of geographic products and services to the GIS community
• EarthExplorer (USGS) - provides access to satellite images, aerial photographs, and cartographic products through the US Geological Survey
• Earth Sciences Division - a division of NASA, providing a wealth of Earth imagery to browse, search, and download
• NGA- Raster Roam
• Seamless Data Distribution System (SDDS)
- a product of the USGS, enabling the user to view and download many geospatial layers, both US and international
• UN Environmental Programme. Global Resource Information Database - a partnership between UNEP, USGS, and NASA aiming to provide scientific basis for decision-making by contributing environmental data and information, and methodological techniques for handling such data
• Map Societies Around the World - a comprehensive listing of organizations active in the filed of the history of cartography.
• The Roman Map of Britain
-- records place-names of Britain during the Roman occupation.


World - maps

• The David Rumsey Collection - focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the world, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. Collection categories include antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, children’s and manuscript maps.
• Geology.com -- over 100 world country political maps paired with Landsat satelite images. The Landsat images show land-use patterns across the country (tutorial is available for Landsat begi nners).
• Interactive JAVA Map Projections -- an interactive JAVA applet to study deformations (area, distance, angle) in map projections. For each of the 73 map projections actually implemented, the user can move a floating ring over a 3D globe and see its projection on the map. Other features include Tissot's indicatrix, geodesic curves and loxodromic curves.
• Historic maps (Jim Siebold) - provides cartographic images dating as far back as 6,000 B.C.; links to Internet sites on cartographic topics.
• Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection - link to the on-line map collection of Perry-Castaneda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
• ReliefWeb - reference and thematic maps concerning current and past humanitarian emergencies and natural disasters.
• United Nations. Cartographic Section - thematic maps in PDF format and various GIS resources.
• Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps - a link to to a UC Berkeley site of vegetation and plant distribution maps
• View Above Earth - enables the user to view the Earth from space, looking down on a given point, based on the latitude, longitude, and altitude of the viewing point.

  
  Canada

  Canada - general

• Canada Land Inventory - a comprehensive multi-disciplinary land inventory of rural Canada; over 1000 mapsheets (1:250,000 scale) are available on this site for on-line map making and download of desktop publishing, or GIS formats
• Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure - provides provides Canadians with on-demand access to geographic information (e.g. maps, satellite images) and related services and applicationson-demand access to geographic information (e.g. maps, satellite images) and related services and applications
• Canada - Historical Atlas of Canada Online - includes conventional text and image pages with the main focus on interactive maps
• Canadian Hydrographic Service - provides access to official marine navigation charts and nautical publications
• Canada - The Atlas of Canada Online - a comprehensive collection of maps and related information about Canada at the national level
• Canadian Soil Information System - source of GIS products as well as database management and custom mapping services for the Canadian Land Resource Network
• GeoGratis - vector mapping data is available in scales ranging from 1:50 000 to 1:30 000 000 in a variety of file formats; several types of full resolution satellite imagery are also available

  Canada - regional

• B.C. Base Mapping & Geomatic Services - base maps and georeferencing data provided by the B.C. Integrated Land Management Bureau
• B.C. Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management - various GIS datasets are available for download
• MapPlace - provides access to the maps and databases of the BC Ministry of Energy and Mines
• Agri-Maps - data on Manitoba's geography and resources, and current aerial photography
• Manitoba - Industry, Economic Development & Mines - maps of mineral dispositions and assessment; geophysical maps and datasets; petroleum maps of Southwestern Manitoba
• Manitoba Land Initiative - the source for geospatial information from the Government of Manitoba; allows online access to the MLI corporate land data warehouse
• Nova Scotia -GeoNOVA Portal - the Province of Nova Scotia's gateway to geographic information about Nova Scotia; various maps are available for download
• Quebec - Bibliothèque nationale du Québec
• Quebec-Montreal
• Montreal maps online (from McGill)
• Quebec-Montreal- Navigateur Urbain- includes aerial photographs

  
  

  
  Latin America

  Latin America - Data

• Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica (Brazil)
• Caribbean Environmental Programme
• Instituto Geografico Militar (Ecuador)
• INEGI (Mexico)
• Georeferenced population data of Mexico(from CIESIN)
• IGN (Peru)

  Latin America - Maps

• ReliefWeb

  
  Europe

  Europe - Data

• Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen (Austria)
• National Land Survey (Finland)
• Institut Geographique National (France)
• Atelier Parisien de l'Urbanisme (France - Paris)
• Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (Germany)
• Ordnance Survey (Great Britain)
• Great Britain Historical Database Online(Great Britain)
• Historical GIS Programme(Great Britain)
• Go-Geo! (Great Britain)
• Landmaelingar Islands (Iceland)
• Ordnance Survey (Ireland)
• Istituto Geografico Militare (Italy)
• Topografische Dienst (Netherlands)
• Ordnance Survey(Northern Ireland)
• Statens kartverk (Norway)
• GEOCID portal (Portugal)
• Instituto Geografico do Exercito (Portugal)
• SNIG - Sistema Nacional de Informacio Geografica (Portugal)
• IGN (Spain)
• Lantmäteriet (Sweden)
• Bundesamt fur Landestopographie (Switzerland)
• Map.search.ch
(Switzerland)

Europe - Maps

• Driving directions & maps from Michelin
• Map 24 - Cities, routes, distances
• European cities -historic maps
• London
• Roman Empire
• Ancient Mediterranean region
• Great Britain's OS six-inch series (1846-1899)
• Maps of Scotland 1569-1928
• ReliefWeb

  
  Africa

• African Data Dissemination Service
• ReliefWeb

  
  Asia

  Asia - Data

• ACASIAN - Australian Centre of the Asian Spatial Information and Analysis Network. GIS databases for Asia, former Soviet Union
• Afghanistan Information Management Service
• China Data Center(U.Mich)
• China Historical GIS(Harvard)
• China (via CIESIN)
• CITAS, China in Time and Space
• Diamond Bay Research search engines for Asian map and GIS resources
• Japan Geographical Survey Institute

  Asia - Maps

• 19th century Formosa
• Digital South Asia Library historic maps of India
• Maps of India
• ReliefWeb
• Shanghai (Institut d'Asie Orientale)

  Australia/New Zealand

  Australia/N.Z. - Data

• Geoscience (Australia)
• Land Information (New Zealand)

  Australia/N.Z. - Maps

• Australian Department of the Government

  
  Oceans

• Coastline Extractor