Spatial Data Resources

Connects users to digital geospatial resources, including GIS datasets, web services, and digitized historical maps from multiple data clearinghouses and library catalogs.

A data discovery portal that searches multiple partner institutions and organizations for spatial data and maps.

Find authoritative spatial data from many federal agencies in the U.S. Government's open geospatial data repository. GeoPlatform is a complement to Data.gov.

Data on U.S. demographics, real estate, health, jobs, and more to explore and download.

Search and browse geospatial data curated by the University of Chicago Library

A great resource for free shapefiles of states, counties, and other administrative divisions in the U.S.

Includes Census data not available from American Fact Finder.

Click the green Get Data button on the right side of the page to access high-quality environment and natural resources data.

Free vector and raster data for the entire world available at multiple scales. This resource is best when making maps for publication.

Economic and demographic statistics at the national, provincial, county and city levels.

Download current global network data from OpenStreetMap.

Collected by the World Health Organization, find global health statistics on a variety of issues including public health, infectious diseases, violence against women, mental health, and more. Download data in CSV, Excel, HTML, JSON, or XML format.

Authoritative data resources from global humanitarian agencies and governments, including U.S. Dept. of State.

Geocoded addreses in table format for download. Coverage includes much of the U.S., Western Europe, Japan, New Zealand, Australia and Brazil.

Land cover data from many satellite imagery programs, including Landsat. The website is operated by the University of Maryland.