This page provides a summary of public, freely available GIS repositories. Clicking on one of these links will take you out of the Baruch Geoportal and to onto one of these sites.
World
| Natural Earth | High quality global features that are generalized at several scales; good for digital cartography. |
| GADM | Spatial database of the world's administrative areas or boundaries (countries, states, provinces, etc) |
| gData | Project at UC Berkeley that provides boundary files and imagery for every country in the world, tied to the DIVA GIS project |
| UN Environment Programme - GEO Data Portal | Click "Advanced Search," select "Geospatial Data Sets" under the 1st drop down box, and hit the red "Search" button for a list of global or continental GIS files |
| CIESN | Hosted by Columbia University, links to datasets for the world, various countries, and the US |
| USGS Global Visualization Viewer | US federal agency that provides LANDSAT data (global satellite imagery) for the world |
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