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Awesome Geodata Awesome

A curated list of awesome geospatial data sources and services

ALPHA STATE NOTICE - This is very much in an early WIP state.

Disclaimer

Use at your own risk. This is just a list.

REQUEST FOR GOOD BEHAVIOUR

Please be responsible when consuming and utilising the services listed here. Many of these public data services are developed, maintain, and run by volunteers and have limited resources.

The majority of these services have their own terms and conditions, licensing requirements, usage policies, and rate limits.

Everyone who makes use of these services should endeavour to comply with them as much as possible. Failure to do so may result in penalties and/ or legal action.

If you are utilising a service for commercial purposes, please consider using a commercial provider or hosting the relevant data and services on your own infrastructure to prevent abuse of public resources. If using a public resource in a public or open source application, it is expected that you should implement some form of rate limiting in the client applications to prevent abuse by your users.

Navigation

This page relies on GitHub Navigation Controls for Markdown for in page navigation.

Other relevant sections include:

About

This readme provides the root geodata service list in order to simplify navigation and search for return users. It is highly recommended that anyone visiting this page for the first time reads through the about page first.

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.

Legend

This list uses emoji to highlight some characteristic of a service or platform.

The GeoMoji project github.com/zacharlie/geomoji will serve as a reference for the emoji used in this list, along with the extended definitions as outlined below.

with the following keys used for reference:

Access

  • πŸ’ͺ - The site has reliable support (This includes funding or infrastructure provided by a large foundation, NGO, public agency, corporation, or significant corporate sponsorship and should be indicative that it is expected to have continued support for the medium to long term, or 5-10 years, without changes to it's terms of use even if it experiences a sudden rise in popularity, making it suitable for use in production. It should also indicate mature services with wide userbase which are unlikely to introduce breaking changes)
  • πŸ‘½ - The site acts strange, asks you to jump through hoops to get data, and may not be totally altruistic

Validity

  • {{YYYY}} ♻️ - Checked and verified to be working at date/ year
  • {{YYYY}} βŒ› - Service online but seems to be struggling with performance/ scale/ load etc
  • {{YYYY}} ❕ - Service online but seems to have maintenance issues (invalid ssl etc)
  • {{YYYY}} ⁉️ - Service checked and seems to be unavailable
  • {{YYYY}} ❗ - Service is deprecated and expected to go offline at the date listed

An extended legend is provided at the bottom of the list to assist with additional categorisations and content discovery.

Licensing

Licensing information is provided where possible, however it is subject to error and may change at any time.

Other Lists

The following outline lists of spatial datasources similar to this list:

Catalogues

This list is primarily for targeting legacy platforms, services, web interfaces, and data sources which cannot be automatically be traversed using some catalog software or platform. As the OGC APIs mature, and technologies such as OAFeat and STAC become more widely used, this would become redundant. If there is a better tool for discovering certain service types, such as stacindex.org, this list should rather link to that resource than individual endpoints available from those platforms.

Geodata Regions

Data services are primarily categorised by geographic region.

Global

Global level data sets that provide worldwide data. This is primarily for global cartography, basemaps, and generic data services. Services that provide application specific data at global scale may be detailed in the topics section.

General

High level data services and sources that provide information at the global level.

OpenStreetMap (OSM)

OpenStreetMap is a community world mapping project and the de facto open collection of geographic vector data

Other

Private tools, commercial vendors and other useful Earth Science links.

Continental

Data portals offered at continental, subcontinent or regional level

Africa

Data services for the African Continent

Earth Observation
Civic Technology

Portals, data hubs, and catalogues curated by civic technology agencies and community projects

Countries

Data sources managed at the national level.

CA

Canada

Provincial Portals

FR

France

KE

Kenya

NZ

New Zealand

US

The United States of America

Oklahoma

ZA

The Republic of South Africa

Metros and Municipalities

Data services provided by Municipalities, Local Governments and Metropolitan Areas

Civic Technology

Portals, datahubs and catalogues curated by third party agencies and community projects

  • https://wazimap.co.za/ - Media Monitoring and Census Reporting, developed and maintained by OpenUp
  • https://maps.sagta.org.za/ - The Southern African Geography Teachers Association map downloader allows the creation and download of print map layouts using the RSA imagery and 50k tile services
Non-Spatial Data

Non-spatial data that is typically used in conjunction with, or to enrich, spatial data.

The following resources should facilitate utilisation of census data from statssa:

Services

Topics

Data services that are relevant to a specific topic or scientific field.

These are typically expected to be at global or continental scale at least. Local or regional services should be categorised by region.

Biodiversity Information

Climate

Precipitation

Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

Earth Observation

Atmospheric

Energy

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Health

  • https://healthsites.io/ - An open data commons of health facility data project built with tight integration to the OpenStreetMap project.

Humanitarian

Hydrology

  • https://ggis.un-igrac.org/ - International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre (IGRAC) Global Groundwater Information System (GGIS)

Landcover

https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/landcover/ - Global 10m Landcover developed by Impact Observatory using Sentinel-2 data and published by Esri

Remote Sensing

Non-Spatial

More information on non-spatial data sources is available on the About Page, especially in the "Prior Art" section.

Services

Service endpoints of international importance and utility

Other

Geodata and related resources which don't quite fit any of the above categories.

Software

Software, platforms, and plugins which provide effective data access and cataloguing services.

Esri

©️ πŸ’Έ

Esri provide access to a large number of data services in many of their products across different platforms. Additional/ distinct data products (which may be accessed via other products) include:

Additionally, publicly available services using the ArcGIS REST API include:

Some example ArcGIS service endpoints include:

You can find similar services from the Esri catalogues:

Note: Utilisation of Esri Services is subject to certain conditions and limitations. You are typically required to utilise these services in conjunction with other Esri products, services, or subscriptions.

More Information:

QGIS

QGIS Desktop does not provide much data by default, however there are some "Easter Eggs" which let you access data immediately by typing keywords into the coordinates bar. The most commonly used easter egg is probably "world", which loads the natural earth country boundaries, but because QGIS is an Open Source project you can dig around the source code to get a full list of available easter eggs.

Modern versions of QGIS also include some data services OOTB, including access to the nominatim geocoding service and the Open Street Map XYZ Tile Service

QGIS Hub

The QGIS plugin repository has been expanded to include the QGIS Hub. In addition to being able to find and share community styles and data processing models, the HUB allows users to access community projects which are end-to-end solutions including processing models, styles, data, and more.

QGIS Plugins

The QGIS plugin repository provides community plugins to extend the default functionality of the QGIS Desktop and QGIS Server applications. There are a great deal of plugins related to various functionality, including data acquisition, collection, management, and advanced or application specific functions. Some of the plugins which are really awesome for general data acquisition, especially for providing basemaps and basedata, include:

Vendors

Private commercial data vendors which may supply data across various domains or regions may be found on the commercial vendors page.

Exclusions

If you are the custodian of a listed service and wish for your services to not be listed please file a PR to add your agency, service name, or domain name to the exclusion list. Note that it may be expected that some form of demonstration of ownership for a service is provided before the PR is merged.

Thanks

Thank you to all users and contributors, but most of all thanks to all data providers that support the development, maintenance, and publication of these services and their associated data.

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