Data Sources

Data sources!

General Portals
UN data portal
Data.gov - data from the US gov.
NationMaster
US Census Bureau
EuroStat
"Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network" - notably helpful.
NCAR "free" - misc. world climatic data
Ocean Observing System Teacher Resource Center online data

Politics and Elections book odds - poke around, bookies have a lot data, particularly about sports. And remember: book odds are payout over cost. (helpful glossary)

US environment
USGS Maps, imagery, publications, and data some software available under "data"
Surf your watershed (US EPA)
Census of Agriculture
NCDC "free data" includes coop station records (National Climatic Data Center)
Lightning specific NASA data

US economy
FRED - Federal Reserve economic data
US Money Supply
Agricultural product trade data from the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service.

Health Statistics
US CDC

• National Center for Health Statistics
• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
• Surveys and Data Collection Systems

USA Political Data
USA national elections predictions and results
Follow the Money
Open Secrets
Little Sis
Sunlight Foundation
Farm Bill 2007 money

US Miscellaneous
IRS list of US charities
Association of Religious Data Archives
US National Center for Educational Statistics

Colorado data
Colorado Labor Market information
Colorado Department of Education
Colorado By the numbers (more links)
Colorado Water Conservation Board - (law/money oriented "traditional" conservation, not so much modern)
Colorado Geological Survey downloadable data page

Geodata

National


US government geodata portal
Find lots of other stuff ... http://www.ckan.net/tag/read/geodata
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/map/map_section/map_Statedatasets.html
Libre Map


EROS (Earth Observing... ) a complex mound of data!


Data for/from "The National Map" http://seamless.usgs.gov/


USGS DRG's (GeoTIFF) and DLG's http://eros.usgs.gov/#/Find_Data/Products_and_Data_Available/Map_Products


NWS GIS links & AWIPS Shapefile Database


GIS users weather portal - primarily USA


NOAA nautical charts to GIS info http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/csdl/enc_diff.html


US "Earth Explorer" - I think it is possible to get useful data out of this... http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/EarthExplorer/


Oil and natural gas in USA
Oil and Natural Gas In Iraq


Renewable energy potential
NREL may have better data somewhere.


USGS LIDAR data (point clouds), some publicly available http://lidar.cr.usgs.gov/index.php


Southwestern plant distributions http://sbsc.wr.usgs.gov/cprs/research/projects/global_change/RangeMaps.asp


Michigan http://wiki.americaview.org/display/miview/Home


Utah http://gis.utah.gov/sgid


Cheatsheet http://libraries.mit.edu/gis/data/datalinks/statedataweb.html


A lot of data.gov reposting, with curiosities added, like Ace Hardware locations, and telephone exchanges http://infochimps.org/categories/geography
http://data.geocomm.com/catalog/index.html




Colorado


Dept. of Local affairs GIS data http://www.dola.state.co.us/gis/index.html


University "online bibliographies"
CU Boulder library GIS links
CSU library GIS links


http://www.gisnet.com/notebook/PubSafety.php
Colorado DOT road and ownership geometries


Colorado county resources, seems sketchy, but useful http://publicrecords.onlinesearches.com/Colorado-GIS-and-Mapping.htm
http://home.earthlink.net/~giswebmaster/id3.html


BLM is by state - in the West. Colorado BLM


Colorado water board GIS


Boulder County GIS


LaPlata county GIS




International


Places as shapefiles, strictly informally defined! Flickr shapefiles


OpenStreetmap as shapefiles http://mapperz.blogspot.com/2008/09/open-street-map-in-shapefile-format.html


NASA’s Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/,
data detail in http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/wdc/


Stanford libraries African mapping cheatsheet


Landsat orthorectified images via EROS (USGS). Helpful, though slightly dated, use notes here: CKAN geo-landsat notes.


Place names and disputed names, as used by Yahoo


Aerial imagery sources as gathered for the now shelved openaerial map project.


Panned in reviews, but perhaps still interesting http://finder.geocommons.com/


British rock, not a source of Rock-n-Roll, however.


UK, mostly http://www.openpsi.org/ http://data.gov.uk/


Not open enough http://openspace.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/openspace/


Danish weather http://www.microformats.dk/simile/vejrrekorder/vejrrekorder.html


This should be more useful than it appears, maybe http://www.gsdi.org/




software for cruel things


Making shape files from point clouds (of geotagged photos!), and other stunts http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/


Library of Location Algorithms project page


Test parsing for geography (and extra placenames) Yahoo Geography Technologies


What to do with PDF-only maps according to ESRI , and others.


And the opposite thing... making maps to pdfs


Shapelib - a C library for manipulating shapefiles.

Various curiosities openscience.org




other


Illustrated guide to non-profit GIS and online mapping http://maptogether.org/nonprofit-mapping