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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