The less-curated, catch-all, less awesome list of geodata services.
Same format as the list. Things have probably just not been scoped out properly yet. 🕙 Indicates a legacy/ deprecated/ unmaintained service.
High level data services and sources that provide information at the global level.
- 👽 🔓 https://www.igismap.com/download-free-shapefile-maps/ - igismap data collections
- 🕙 https://github.com/globalmaps
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https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/ - Google, but for data
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https://cgiarcsi.community/category/data/ - CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information (CGIAR-CSI)
Data portals offered at continental, subcontinent or regional level
Data services for the African Continent
- 2021 ♻️ http://geoportal.icpac.net - IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre GeoNode instance
- 2021 ♻️ https://sadc-gip.org/ - Southern African Development Community Groundwater Information Portal GeoNode Instance. Contains links and references to multiple related groundwater databases and platforms
- 2021 ♻️ http://www.charim-geonode.net/ - Caribbean Handbook on Risk Information Management (CHaRIM)
- 2021 ♻️ http://146.185.160.86/geoserver/wms
- 2021 ♻️ http://146.185.160.86/geoserver/wfs
- 2021 ♻️ http://146.185.160.86/catalogue/csw
- https://cdema.org/cris/ - Caribbean Risk Information System (CRIS)
- https://geocris2.cdema.org/ - Geospatial component of the Caribbean Risk Information System
- 2021 ♻️ http://www.pacgeo.org/ - An open access geospatial data repository for the Pacific Region providing premier geophysical, geodetic, and marine spatial data sets.
- 2021 ♻️ http://pcrafi.spc.int/ - Pacific Risk Information System
Data sources managed at the national level.
- https://geohist.ca/ - Historical GIS project for Canada
New Zealand
- 🔓 https://www.linz.govt.nz/data/linz-data-service/guides-and-documentation/using-the-linz-data-importer-plugin-in-qgis - Includes links to services for LINZ, Environment, Stats, landcare, defence, and basemaps
The republic of South Africa
Portals, datahubs and catalogues curated by third party agencies and community projects
- https://beta.youthexplorer.org.za/ - Wazimap-NG
- https://water-wazi.openup.org.za/ - Wazimap for water commons (beta)
- https://github.com/j-norwood-young/SA-Maps - To a hammer, everything is a nail. When a government fails to deliver suitable and reliable data services, community members will do what they must to facilitate data access...
Resources for discovering service endpoints of international importance and utility
https://wiki.earthdata.nasa.gov/display/GIBS/ https://nasa-gibs.github.io/gibs-api-docs/available-visualizations/#visualization-product-catalog e.g. https://map1b.vis.earthdata.nasa.gov/wmts-webmerc/BlueMarble_ShadedRelief_Bathymetry/default/{Time}/GoogleMapsCompatible_Level8/{z}/{x}/{y}.jpg
- http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Public-vector-tile-servers-td5453345.html - Discussion on public vector tiles services
- https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/20191/adding-basemaps-from-google-or-bing-in-qgis - Community list of XYZ Tile services
Very few vector tile services are operated in a manner that they are accessible to the public. Some useful links include:
- 💸 https://cloud.maptiler.com/maps/ - Fremium
- ⛔ 🍦 https://www.qwant.com/maps/tiles/ozbasemap/{z}/{x}/{y}.pbf - Accessible free of charge and reserved exclusively for non-professional and non-commercial use
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/QwantResearch/qwant-basic-gl-style/master/style.json - An example "style file" used to configure the design of vector tile maps
- https://github.com/klokantech/vector-tiles-sample -
Note that a number of ArcGIS vector tile endpoints are available in the Esri section of the Main List, however these are subject to Esri terms and conditions
Geodata and related resources which don't quite fit any of the above categories.
- http://maps.stamen.com/ - Maps and designs by Stamen. fancy enough that the Smithsonian added it to their permanent collection.
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maps - details on deploying Maps service on Wikimedia Foundation infrastructure
- 🔓 💸 ©️ https://www.maptiler.com/data/ - Various data solutions for vector and raster tiles, including downloading, serving, and API access
- https://openmaptiles.org/ - Project for storing and styling tile services, maintained by the maptiler team
- https://github.com/Qwant/qwantmaps - maps by https://www.qwant.com/
- http://map.wikimedia.ch/
- https://tile.synapta.io/styles/osm-bright/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
- https://gedi.umd.edu/data/download/ - Ecosystem LiDAR
- https://github.com/CS-SI/eodag - Earth Observation Data Access Gateway
Some generic advice on how to more effectively discover and access spatial data
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When using web mapping services you can usually find the endpoint addresses in the network tab of the developer tools (F12) in your browser which can then be used in another GIS system (dependant on service terms).
When accessing FTP or SCP services, you can typically just type the full address, with the protocol prefix, into the address bar using your standard file browser, such as windows explorer. Most modern operating systems support this, however you can also use external SCP/ FTP client software like WinSCP, Cyberduck, or FileZilla - Warning, YMMV and Filezilla has been known to contain bundleware in the past.