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Metadata catalog.
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CENTRAL + SOUTH ASIA
Regional
Population density raster files in GeoTIFF format.
Asian spatial data available at a fee.
By Country
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Digital Geologic and Geophysical Data of Bangladesh
On CD-ROM at Penn Libraries.
Georgia
Transportation and other features in KML or shapefile format.
India
Gives latitude and longitude of placenames in India, derived from the 2001 Census.
Courtesy of Dartmouth economist Sandip Sukhtankar.
Bhuvan Geoportal of the National Remote Sensing Centre, with mostly land use data and satellite imagery for download.
Community Created Maps of India Community Created Maps of India sourced from different government websites which are freely available to all the Indians. Here we have digitized them, cleaned them, added appropriate attributes so it can be used by all the researchers, students etc.
Pakistan
Blog with links to some shapefiles, including union council maps and bus routes.
Gridded population data.
Data on power generation, voter turnout, and flooding, in Google Docs with geocodes.
Humanitarian Response Pakistan
Shapefiles related to response to flooding in Pakistan.
Nepal
Thematic layers covering Nepal. Free registration required.
Russia
Open data catalog for Moscow. In Russian.
Requires free registration.
Sri Lanka
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EAST ASIA
Regional
Population density raster files in GeoTIFF format.
Collection of Chinese, Vietnamese, and Tibetan data.
By Country
Burma
Myanmar Information Management Unit
Boundaries and features in shapefile format.
Cambodia
Census boundaries, economic zones, and other development-related datasets available in shapefile and KML formats.
China
Administrative boundaries, population, and agricultural statistics.
Historic administrative boundaries beginning 221 BC and ending 1911 CE. Requires free registration.
Vectorized base maps, georeferenced socioeconomic data, bibliographic resources and utilities for coding data of administrative units, for the period 1982-1990, in ArcInfo interchange format.
Collection of basemap data.
Japan
Boundary shapefiles for feudal Japan.
Hong Kong
Georeferenced public facilities, in CSV.
North Korea
Point features in KMZ format.
Web map app covering the Korean peninsula, including both North and South Korea.
South Korea
Web map app covering the Korean peninsula, including both North and South Korea.
Philippines
Philippines GIS Data Clearinghouse
Boundaries, basemap data, and others.
Singapore
Shapefiles of bus stop locations and other transportation-related features. Download available by request.
Thailand
Thailand Flood Monitoring System
Floodplain extents in shapefile or KML formats. In Thai.
DEMs and meteorological data, in shapefile or ASCII raster format.
Vietnam
Some Vietnam and Thailand available on request.
Vietnam Hamlet Evaluation System Gazetteer Data
Details of every hamlet, village, district, and province recorded between 1967 and 1974. Includes Population, Administrative Center, Distance to International Border, Latitude and Longitude, in Excel format that can be converted to point data.
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EUROPE
Regional
European administrative boundaries, ports and airports, urbanization, and land cover.
Administrative Units / Statistical Units, Population distribution / Demography, Transport Networks, Land Cover, and Elevation (DEM) datasets covering Europe.
For the Baltic Sea area, downloadable shapefiles of protected areas, pollution, shipping, fisheries, and some background data, from the Helsinki Commission. (Site is currently under maintenance but click here for the same data).
European Forest Genetic Resources Programme
Distribution maps of tree species across Europe, in shapefile format.
European Soil Portal
Ecological soil data in European countries.Inspire Geoportal (European Union)
The INSPIRE geoportal enables search of spatial data and services, with subject to access restrictions.
Open data available for Europe at 1: 1 million scale, including administrative boundaries, water networks, transportation, developments, and place names.
European Union Open Data Portal
Open data is searchable by keyword and theme, covering environmental variables of interest or more.
European Environment Agency, Data and Maps
Includes searchable data products, maps, interactive maps, and downloadable datasets.
Raster land cover data for Europe.
MPIDR Population History GIS Collection
Includes historic administrative boundaries of select European locations.
MPIDR Population History GIS Collection
The Mosaic project identifies, gathers, harmonizes, and distributes surviving historical census microdata for Europe and beyond. It aims at building a comprehensive and detailed resource for the historic study of populations by historians, demographers, economists, and other researchers. The Mosaic project builds on historical integrated census microdata projects such as the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) and the North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP). Records are distributed in the same integrated format, so that historical comparisons can be made across time and space.
*Euratlas georeferenced historical vector data* by Christos Nüssli, shapefiles by Marc-Antoine Nüssli
Contains 21 maps, one for each century from year 1 CE to year 2000 CE. These maps depict the political makeup of Europe at the last year of each century. Each map is composed of physical features shapefile layers (rivers, seas, and elevation data) and political features layers (sovereign nations, dependent territories, autonomous peoples, cities and towns, uncertain boundaries).
By Country
Albania
Boundaries and features in shapefile format.
Austria
Viewable data with links to provincial geospatial data sources.
Open data resources, some of which are geospatial, for Vienna. In German.
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Aerial photographs, parcels, and topographic data for the Brussels Capital Region.
Data for Flanders region.
Czech Republic
Czech data catalog.
Denmark
National metadata catalog. In Danish.
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Search for datasets from multiple agencies or browse directory of data providers.
From the Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency. Includes OS VectorMap™ District (mid-scale buildings, roads, railways), OS Street View® (simplified street level map), and Boundary-Line™ (electoral and administrative boundaries), among others.
Office of National Statistics Census Geography Datasets
Shapefiles of 2001 and 2011 census boundaries for England and Wales.
Index of open data resources from the Greater London Authority.
Hungary
Search catalog of spatial data.
Ireland
Some data in KML format.
Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Spatial Data
Some free geologic shapefiles.
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National metadata catalog, with some downloadable data.
From the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, licenses, wellbores, pipelines and seismic information in shapefile formate; see Geographical datasets to download.
Poland
Polish spatial data catalog.
Portugal
National portal to geospatial data, some of it downloadable. In Portuguese.
Some free downloadable data for the Azores. In Portuguese.
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Spatial data catalog.
Boundaries and other basemap data, in shapefile and other formats.
Swiss environmental data.
Ukraine
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