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AMERICAS
Regional
North American Environmental Atlas
Interactive mapping tool to research, analyze and manage environmental issues in Canada, United States and Mexico.
GEOSUR - La red geoespacial de América Latina y el Caribe.
Produced by the Pan American Institute of Geography and History. A large collection of environmental datasets.
Datasets for Amazonia and the Cerrado
Shapefiles related to soils, vegetation, fire, sawmills, land cover, mining, population, and precipitation.
OAS Post-Georges Disaster Mitigation GIS Data
Basemap shapefiles and DEMs for Antigua, Barbuda, St. Kitts, Nevis.
Distribution maps of vertebrates.
By Country
Argentina
Open data site for the city. Look under Formatos: shp to find spatial data. In Spanish.
Belize
GIS and Spatial Data for Belize
A warehouse for environmental and spatial data on Belize.
Brazil
Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística
In Portuguese.
Canada
Statistics Canada Geographical Products
Roads, boundary files, demographic data, and more
Base data and satellite imagery in a variety of formats.
Information and data on natural resources in Canada from Energy and Forests to Hazards and the Environment.
Some shapefiles among other municipal data sets.
Government of Canada, Open Data, Open Maps
This site provides geospatial data for Canada with the ability to search for layers and download.
Colombia
Sistema de Informacion Integrado de Information Humanitaria para Colombia
Requires registration. In Spanish.
Dominican Republic
"ShapeFiles Censo 2010" (3/27/2015). Download as an .rar archive file. Site in Spanish.
Ecuador
Level Three Administrative Boundaries, Census Ecuador 2010
Parish-level census boundaries, from the Instituto Geografico Militar and available for download via Tufts. Search for additional Ecuadorian datasets at GeoData@Tufts.
Boundaries, volcanoes, in shapefile format.
Haiti
Facilitates open access to Haiti-related geospatial information, data and knowledge sources
Gridded population data.
Mexico
Mexico's official statistical agency distributes spatial data for a fee, though elevation data is available free of charge with registration (see the USGS for instructions in English.)
Boundaries, geologic features, soils.
Georeferenced Population Datasets of Mexico
State boundaries, place names, geographic coordinates of urban and metropolitan places, and elevation data for more than 700 urban places, with 1990 census data.
Mexico Homicides (2006 – 2011)
Geo-referenced yearly data at the municipal level on homicides reported in death certificates from 2006 to 2011. The certificates are issued by local offices of the Attorney General's Office.
Peru
South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
Log in using the information provided on the landing page.
Uruguay
Open data catalog. Search for "shapefile." In Spanish.
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OCEANIA
Regional
By Country
American Samoa
Bathymetry, topography, boundaries, and coastline, as GRID or shapefile.
Australia
Australian open data catalog; filter by KML or shapefile for spatial data.
Mostly geologic themes. The original site has been decommissioned, but provides plenty of links to other working sites that contain the same data.
Australian Spatial Data Directory
Metadata catalog.
Geomorphic habitat mapping shapefiles.
Downloadable KMLs on mineral resources.
New Zealand
New Zealand open data catalog.
Land Information New Zealand's data portal, with topographic, transportation, maritime, and property ownership data sets in shapefile, KML, or CAD format.
Catalog of publicly-funded geospatial data.
New Zealand digital elevation base maps, available for a fee.