Geospatial Data

OpenStreetMap (osm) is a free worldwide map, created by people like you. The data is free to download and use under its open license.

• Download neighbourhood or small town: OpenStreetMap


• Download city or region: BBBike (selected cities or custom extraction)


• Download country or continent: GeoFabrik

GADM is a spatial database of the location of the world's administrative areas (or adminstrative boundaries) for use in GIS and similar software

Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.

World coverage of topographic map themes. VMap0 includes major road and rail networks, hydrologic drainage systems, utility networks (cross-country pipelines and communication lines), major airports, elevation contours, coastlines, international boundaries and populated places.

ArcAtlas contains global geographic and attribute data at three scales (1:10,000,000 for Europe, 1:20,000,000 for North and South America, Africa and Antarctica 1:25,000,000 for Asia and Australia). Includes 40 different geographic themes grouped by broad subject area.

Seven CD-ROM set containing World, Europe, Canada, Mexico and detailed United States boundaries and statistical information.

Environmental and socioeconomic data about a number of subjects ranging from human impact to agriculture

ERMA® is an online mapping tool that integrates both static and real-time data, such as Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) maps, ship locations, weather, and ocean currents, in a centralized, easy-to-use format for environmental responders and decision makers.

NatureServe is a non-profit conservation organization whose mission is to provide the scientific basis for effective conservation action. NatureServe and its network of natural heritage programs are the leading source for information about rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems.

The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) GeoNetwork is a portal that contains global to regional scale data from administrative boundaries and agriculture to soils, population, land use, and water resources.

The Esri Living Atlas of the World is an expanding, curated set of data and maps on thousands of topics that can be used and also contributed to by the GIS community.

Query and order satellite images, aerial photographs, and cartographic products for the world through the U.S. Geological Survey

ORNL's LandScan™ is the community standard for global population distribution. At approximately 1 km resolution (30" X 30"), LandScan is the finest resolution global population distribution data available and represents an ambient population (average over 24 hours).

DEMs for most of the earth, excluding north and south polar regions.

WorldClim is a set of global climate layers (climate grids) with a spatial resolution of about 1 square kilometer. The data can be used for mapping and spatial modeling in a GIS or with other computer programs. If you are not familiar with such programs, you can try DIVA-GIS or the R raster package.

The Global Land Cover Facility at the University of Maryland remains one of the best and easiest to use sources and methods to obtain Landsat, MODIS, Aster, SRTM, and other satellite imagery.

The HWSD is a 30 arc-second raster database with over 16,000 different soil mapping units that combines existing regional and national updates of soil information worldwide (SOTER, ESD, Soil Map of China, WISE) with the information contained within the 1:5,000,000 scale FAO-UNESCO Soil Map of the World (FAO, 19711981).Supplementary data includes Soil Quality, Land Cover and Terrain Data.