{"id":736,"date":"2014-07-19T10:22:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T14:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/madar\/?page_id=736"},"modified":"2024-02-09T16:29:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T21:29:10","slug":"gov-ext","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/gmdc\/old-gmdc\/geo-data\/public\/gov-ext\/","title":{"rendered":"Government &amp; External Agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>National &#8211; Canada<\/h4>\n<p><a title=\"Canadian GIS &amp; Geomatics\" href=\"http:\/\/canadiangis.com\/data.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canadian GIS &amp; Geomatics &#8211; Free Data<\/a> &#8211; Includes sources for Open Geospatial Data, fee based geospatial data, and online web mapping applications.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geographynetwork.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Geography Network Canada<\/a> &#8211; Online resource for finding and sharing geographic content, including maps and data, from many of Canada&#8217;s leading providers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/datahub.io\/dataset\/canada3d-digitalelevationmodelofthecanadianlandmass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canada3D<\/a> \u2013 A Digital Elevation Model (DEM) covering all of Canada.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnr.gov.on.ca\/en\/Business\/NHIC\/2ColumnSubPage\/STDU_138221.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Natural Heritage Information Centre<\/a> &#8211; Access data and information about Ontario&#8217;s species of conservation concern, plant communities and wildlife concentration areas.<\/p>\n<h4>Ontario<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geographynetwork.ca\/website\/obm\/viewer.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ontario Base Map (OBM) &#8211; Interactive Mapping and Download<\/a> &#8211; Ontario Topographic map data at a scale of 1:10,000. Download formats include ESRI Shapefile (.shp), AutoCAD (.dwg and .dxf) and more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glc.org\/glin\">Great Lakes Information Network (GLIN)<\/a> &#8211; A centralized location to discover, publish, and acquire geospatial data for areas within the Great Lakes region.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"OGS Earth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geologyontario.mndm.gov.on.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Geology Ontario &#8211; OGS Earth\u00a0<\/a> &#8211; OGSEarth provides geoscience data, collected by the Mines and Minerals division including mining claims, geology, administrative boundaries and abandoned mines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omafra.gov.on.ca\/english\/landuse\/gis\/portal.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AgMaps Geographic Information Portal (Ontario)<\/a> &#8211; Agricultural Information Atlas<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandriver.ca\/en\/our-watershed\/Maps-and-data.aspx\">Grand River Information Network (GRIN)<\/a> &#8211; Grand River watershed geospatial data download.<\/p>\n<h4>United States Geospatial Data<\/h4>\n<p><a title=\"FGDC\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fgdc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) &#8211; National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"FGDC\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fgdc.gov\/dataandservices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoplatform.gov\/\">GeoPlatform Portal<\/a> &#8211; Provides &#8216;one-stop&#8217; access to all registered geographic information and related online access services within the United States.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"data.gov\" href=\"http:\/\/catalog.data.gov\/dataset\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">data.gov<\/a> &#8211; Data.gov provides the ability to search approved data from hundreds of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.data.gov\/organization\">sources<\/a> including federal government, cities, counties, states, and universities.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"GEOSS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geoportal.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GEOSS Portal<\/a> &#8211; Provides access to global Earth Observation Data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/programs-surveys\/geography\/data\/interactive-maps.html\">United States Census Bureau \u2013 Maps &amp; Data<\/a> \u2013 Access to\u00a0geographic data and products such as the TIGER\/Line Shapefiles, KMLs, TIGERweb, cartographic boundary files, geographic relationship files, and reference and thematic maps<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/the-national-map-data-delivery\/gis-data-download\">United States Geological Survey (USGS) Maps and Imagery Download<\/a> \u2013 Access to maps, data and imagery via various USGS portals and collections.<\/p>\n<p id=\":1su\"><a href=\"http:\/\/historicalmaps.arcgis.com\/usgs\/\">USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webgis.com\/libremap.html\">Libre Map Project<\/a> provides map and GIS data by US State.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhgis.org\/\">National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS)<\/a> &#8211; Provides aggregate Census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2012.<\/p>\n<h4>International<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cadmapper.com\/\">Cadmapper<\/a>&#8211; Transforms data from public sources such as OpenStreetMap, NASA, and USGS into neatly organized CAD files. It&#8217;s free for areas up to 1 km<sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/viewfinderpanoramas.org\/dem3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Digital Elevation Data<\/a> &#8211; Digital elevation models for various parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diva-gis.org\/Data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DIVA-GIS<\/a> &#8211; Global country level data including administrative boundaries, roads, railroads, altitude, land cover, and population density.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"HWSD\" href=\"http:\/\/webarchive.iiasa.ac.at\/Research\/LUC\/External-World-soil-database\/HTML\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harmonized World Soils Database (HWSD)<\/a> &#8211; A global database, framed within a Geographic Information System (GIS), that contains up-to-date information on world soil resources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalearthdata.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Natural Earth<\/a> &#8211; Public domain vector and raster map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldclim.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WorldClim<\/a> &#8211; A set of global climate layers with a spatial resolution of 1 sq km.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/free-gis-data.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/atlas-of-biosphere.html\">Free GIS Remote Sensing, Spatial and Hyrology Data<\/a> &#8211; A blog that provides information about websites that provide free GIS, remote sensing, spatial and hydrological data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evl.uic.edu\/pape\/data\/WDB\/\">Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) World DataBank II<\/a> &#8211; A collection of world map data, consisting of vector descriptions of land outlines, rivers, and political boundaries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbif.org\/\">Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)<\/a> &#8211; Portal providing access to global biodiversity data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.fas.harvard.edu\/~chgis\/\">China Historical GIS (CHGIS) &#8211; Harvard Yenching Institute<\/a> &#8211; Database of populated places and historical administrative units for the period of Chinese history between 222 BCE and 1911 CE.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/phe\/health_topics\/outdoorair\/databases\/cities\/en\/\">WHO Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database<\/a> &#8211; Database of air pollution in urban areas covering 3000 cities in 130 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National &#8211; Canada Canadian GIS &amp; Geomatics &#8211; Free Data &#8211; Includes sources for Open Geospatial Data, fee based geospatial data, and online web mapping applications. 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