International Maps and Data: by region and country

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Polar regions
Africa
Asia
Australia
Europe
Middle East
The Americas

General and Global

Polar Regions

International Arctic Environmental Data Directory United Nations Environment Programme Arctic Regions Resources
British Antarctic Survey
Antarctic Digital Database
Antarctica Online -Australian Antarctic Program
Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (ARC/INFO export format)
USARC, United States Antarctic Research Center, Has maps, aerial photos and other information compiled by SCAR, The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

Africa

African Data Dissemination Service
AFRICOVER-Maintained by FAO, the goal of this project is to create a central database for African GIS information.
CARPE-Central African Regional Program for the Environment
Cultural Heritage GIS Resources: Africa
EIS-Africa A Network of African Countries for Environmental Information, has links to data and information for each country
GeoAfrica-Directory of African Earth Science Resources
Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa GIS
SAHIMS GIS Library
South African Humanitarian and Disaster Management (SAHIMS)-data and metadata for numerous southern African countries

Individual Countries:

Malawi National Spatial Data Center

Asia

ASIAN Population Data: Maintained by UNEP.
Administrative and Political Boundries of China (ACASIAN)
Mountain Environment and Natural Resources Information Service-Produced by ICIMOD(International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development

Individual Countries:

China

China Dimensions: Socioeconomical Information that covers administrative regions of China at a scale of 1:1,000,000.

China in Time and Space

India

GIS India: This page contains links to both commercial and non-commercial GIS data sites for India.

National Remote Sensing Agency

Indonesia

Bakosurtanal - National Coordinating Agency for Surveying and Mapping [not in English]

Indonesian Land Use Databank

Lembaga Pemerbangan dan Antariksa Nasional (LAPAN - National Institute of Aeronautics and Space)

Japan

Geographical Survey Institute (GSI)

Japan GIS/Mapping Sciences Resource Guide

JODC Data Online Service System-Japan Oceanographic Data Center

National Space Development Agency (NASDA)

Malaysia

Department of Surveying and Mapping

Malaysian Center for Geospatial Data Infrastructure

New Zealand

Land Information New Zealand (LINZ)

Philippines

National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA)

Singapore

Registry of Land Titles and Deeds - Ministry of Law

Survey Department - Ministry of Law

Thailand

GIS data of Thailand

Australia

Australian Spatial Data Directory - A national initiative supported by all governments under the auspices of ANZLIC, and hosted by the Commonwealth Government through ERIN, AUSLIG and NRIC. The ASDD is under development but will eventually provide an interface to spatial data directories throughout Australia. The national interface to the distributed network, hosted by ERIN, currently has links to directories in the ACT, South Australia, Western Australia, Victoria and the Commonwealth. Commonwealth nodes include Environment Australia, AUSLIG, Bureau of Meteorology, and Bureau of Resource Sciences. There is a link to a separate node in the Northern Territory. Links with other States and Territories are also being developed. The Bureau of Resource Sciences node, hosted by NRIC, currently provides access to metadata for the other Commonwealth, agencies as well as New South Wales and Queensland.
ACRES Digital Catalogue System
ACT Land Information Centre (ACTLIC)
AGSO Metadata Catalogue
Australia New Zealand Land Information Council
Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Australian Geological Survey
Australian Land Survey and Information Group
Australian Oceanographic Data Centre (AODC)
Australian Public Lands and Protected Areas
Australian Spatial Data Directory
CSIRO Earth Observation Centre
CSIRO Marine Data Centre
Dept of Natural Resources (DNR) - Queensland
Department of Environment and Heritage ERIN, Australia's Environmental databases
Dept of Environment and Land Man a gement (DELM) - Tasmania
Dept of Natural Resources and Environment - Victoria
Landgate - Western Australia's agency of land and property information.
DIG (Discover Information Geographically)-Australia's Department of the Environment and Water Resources
Natural Resources Information Centre (NRIC)
NSW Natural Resources Data Directory - New South Wales
Northern Territory, Department of Land, Planning and Environment
Queensland Spatial Information Directory (QSID)
Resource Information Group (DEHAA) South Australia (SA)
Victorian Geospatial Data Direct o ry
WA Land Information Directory

Europe

Academic Sites for Geomatic Engineering-Geodesy, Surveying, photogrammetry, cartography, GIS in Northern Europe.
Baltic Sea Drainage Basin Database (GRID Arendal)
Balti c GIS Portal
EUROGI (European Umbrella Organisation for Geographical Information)
European Centre for Nature Conservation-A member of the IUCN, the world Conservation Union.
EuroGeographics-Excellent resource with links to most European country's national mapping agency.
Eurimage-Commerical Remote Sensing Data supplier, commerically supplies data of world earth, though specializing in Europe, Northern Africa, and west Asia.
Global Datasets for the Nordic Countries and Baltic Sea Region
Mediterranean Water Resources-Links to a number of GIS projects and data sets for the Mediterranean region.
Pan-Europe-Miscellaneous links to GIS Centers through Europe.
UGIS Network-Baltic Region
Geomantics-A commercial design firm offering GIS extensions, tools and visualization software geared towards educational institutions.

Individual Countries:

Albania

Geographical Studies Center report on Environmental Information Systems in Albania-This is a paper that contains a list of numbers and contacts for specific metadata producing branches of the government.

Austria

GIS Einstieg Austria-(In German)

Belgium

G & S, GIS & Survey-(In Flemish[?])

Czech Republic

Czech Association for G e oinformation (CAGI) - Czech Republic [not in English]

Czech Geographical Society (CGS) - Czech Republic [not in English]

Denmark

GIS Denmark-Commercial GIS consulting firm specializing in Danish products. (In Danish)

Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen - KMS (National Survey and Cadastre)

Finland

Geological Survey of Finland

National Land Survey of Finland-English, Finnish

France

(FRANCE) Conseil National de l'Information Geographique-National Geographic Cousel of France . And an exceptional list of links to French Data sources. (In French).

Institut Géographique National (IGN) - France [not in English]

Georgia

State of Environment-Georgia

Germany

Germany's Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy

German Remote Sensing Data Centre (DFD)

Germany: ESRI Germany-ESRI's online form in Germany.

Greece

National Technical University of Athens. ( Greek | English )

Perseus Atlas Project-Focusing on Greece, the Perseus Atlas project is currently working on the creation of general-purpose GIS for the study of classical Greece. The project is being supported by the Tufts University.

Hungary

Geographic Institute of Hungary-Large data repository covering economic, environmental, biological... issues concerning Hungary.

Iceland

GISLand; Iceland-A wonderful site with a data browser and links to numerous data resources of Iceland.

Italy

Portal Cartografico Nazionale (in Italian)

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia-Scientific forum cooperatively based in the geosciences and volocanology

Netherlands

Netherlands-List of GIS Sites exclusively dedicated to the Netherlands

ESRI Nederland-Formally Logisterion GIs, this site provides products and downloads exclusively for ESRI products.

Norway

Norwegian Ministry of the Environment

Norwegian National Institute for Map and Geographic Information-In Norwegian

Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Department of Surveying and Mapping-Provides links to other academic universities and commercial data deals.

Portugal

SNIG Sistema Nacional de Iformacao Geografica (In Portuguese)

Instituto Geográfico do Exército (IGeoE) - Army Geographic Institute - Portugal

Romania

Romania-GeoStrategies of Romania-Commercial vendor selling data for us with both ESRI and MapInfo products.

Russia and Russian Federation

Federal Cadastral Centre (Zemlya) - Russia

GLONASS - Russia

Slovenia

Digital Cartographic and Geodetic Data for the Republic of Slovenija

Slovenian National Spatial Data Catalogue-The most comprehensive directory of digital geospatial data sources for the Republic of Slovenia, boasting over 403 different themes and some 40 different directories and growing.

Spain

ESRI-Spain-ESRI created data sets for Spanish cities, hydrology, national parks, townships, ect. [In Spanish]

Sweden

Valkommen Till Lantmatiet; Sweden-(In Swedish)

Switzerland

Office Fédéral de Topographie (Federal Office of Topography)

Miero GIS-Commercial statistical analysis, business mapping, Geodata and GIS provider.

United Kingdom

British Ordinance Survey

United Kingdom-Well-maintained list of GIS sites for the UK including information relating to historical data, physical geography, remote sensing, ect.

National Statistics UK

NERC-Natural Environment Research Council

Ordinance Survey of Northern Ireland-Commercial GIS provider and part of the Northern Ireland GIS Centre.

Spatial Information about Great Britain

UKBORDERS - Digitized Boundary Data for the UK

WIGIS (Western Isles of Scotland)-A GIS counsulting company specializing in resources of the Western Isles.

Middle East:

Centre for GIS - Qatar
GIS Data Depot-Iran: Free data offered for the country of Iran. Higher resolution data can be purchased from GIS Data Depot as well.
Qatar's Societal GIS

The Americas

Pan American Institute of Geography and History (in Spanish)
North American Transportation Atlas Data (Mexico Data Set)-a set of transportaiton-related geospatial data for the North American countries participating in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Canada

Canadian Ice Service
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
Canada Land Inventory-FTP Only
GeoConnections/CGDI web site-Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure Home Page.
Canadian Forest Service-Homepage with links to different thematical databases.
CEONET-Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure Directory
GeoBase A govermental GIS portal to Canadian data free to download.
Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management
LandData BC-British Columbia Clearinghouse for Land-Related Information
North American Transportation Atlas Data (Canadian Data) - a set of transportation-related geospatial data for the North American countries participating in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Nova Scotia: Minerals and Energy Board
National Water Research Institute
Soil Landscapes of Canada
Yukon Renewable Resources GIS

Mexico:

Georeference Population Data sets of Mexico
INEGI -Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geographic Information

Central and South America:

Costa Rica's National Institute of Geography
GIS DATA Depot for Paraguay: A commercial vendor that maintains both a free catolog and a catolog of data for purchase. This particular site is linked to the free data offered by this firm.
GIS DATA Depot for Peru- A commercial vendor that maintains both a free catolog and a catolog of data for purchase. This particular site is linked to the free data offered by this firm.

Maintained by: Jon Jablonski, jonjab@uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 02/11/2009