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List of US government free GIS data online
The US government publishes a plethora of useful, high-quality GIS data sources online.
The data includes:
Municipal and international boundaries
Classified points of interest
Geographic maps
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Are there any “highly customizeable” GIS platforms out there or am I doomed to manual labor?
I'm new to this site which I find useful and refreshing until now.
And to my question ( WARNING: it's a bit long, so you can skip right to the question two paragraphs down).
I was educated in GIS ...
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Full list of ISO ALPHA-2 and ISO ALPHA-3 country codes
I'm searching for a full list of countries with their country codes.
Like on this page (need full and valid):
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/country_code_list.htm
Thanks.
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What are some alternative sources for USGS data?
I've been using the USGS National Map viewer (http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/) for getting data for QGIS, but the download system is driving me insane. I enter my email address and [sometimes] ...
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Where can I find free Archeology datasets?
Are there any sites that gather together free datasets?
I am especially interested in published data relating to archeology.
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Is there a free source of U.S. time zone borders?
I have a mapping app in which I need to display the borders between U.S. time zones. The easiest and most accurate way would be to feed in a list of lat/long coordinates representing the vertices of ...
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Free Mercator, Vector Maps
Are there any free, vector, mercator projection maps available online? I'm not wanting satellite imagery, but more a stylized map along the lines of this:
However, I need it to be vector-based such ...
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50k Mexico Topo Maps Sources?
Anyone know of another source (preferably free) for these 50k Mexico Topo Maps other than www.omnimap and www.eastview?
There is a free WMS that has them but only for UTM 15 and 16 here:
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Where can I find free Bathymetric data for Indian Ocean?
I am looking for bathymetric data, to place in a map of India for visualization only.
I don't really need very high resolution data, since the the map will be at a very small scale: Maybe 1:1Million ...
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Districts of Israel - free source
Do you know of any free GIS sources of the Israeli administrative divisions: districts (mechozot, מחוזות) and subdistricts (nafot, נפות) which rely on official government information?
I heard there ...
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usa electric transmission powerlines shape files sources
Does anyone have a good source for these?
I have some old (1993) data from the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Cubewerx' WMS (Cubewerx are a spatial data provider); neither of which ...
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Looking for (free) WMS of surface waters of Europe
Do you know any WMS with hydrographic map of Europe?
Especially I am looking for map with surface waters of Europe
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Free data with good accuracy of Europe and Mediterranean
I'm searching for free data like Europe's coastline and Mediterranean island's names etc. but with good precision. I found some shp file from this site
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/
but ...
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Where to download USGS DOQQ boundaries?
I downloaded a shapefile of USGS DOQQ boundaries a few years ago and cannot seem to find one now. The attached image shows an example of the shapefile I'm looking for (green polygons showing the ...
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Where can I find non-rectified stereo satellite imagery?
I'm looking for free (as in beer and as in commercial-use-friendly freedom) sources of stereo satellite imagery. I assume that such imagery should not be rectified since that would remove the benefits ...
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Online resources for creating shp files performing basic GI functionality
I am looking to build polygons, based on files containing a grid of points. The representation of the polygon would be an aggregation of the points. As the end wares are ESRI, I was wondering if ...
