- Aid to Afghanistan
Dedicated to helping agencies involved in providing aid to Afghanistan find important information.
- Antarctic information
This site is a digital database for Antarctic information.
It requires registration prior to access.
- Arlington iSites
Arlington iSites helps businesses looking to relocate to Arlington, Texas search for
vacant commercial properties, perform demographic analysis, and generate site-specific
business cluster reports based on user- defined selections
- Baltic Sea Region
This site has information only about the Baltic Sea Region and the environment
in and around the area. It contains different data sets for different programs
such as idrisi, arcinfo, arcview, and mapinfo. The site also has maps that
show statistics and topography.
This site has GIS information on the Baltic Sea Region
- Berkeley GISC data:
GISC data, The NOAA Coastal Services Center's ArcView Metadata Collector,
West Oakland data set including; transportation, neighborhoods, roads etc.
- BLM
This website has BLM geospatial data.
- BLM - Oregon:
DEM’s and DRG’s for Washington state and Oregon
- BLM - US department of Interior
This site is sponsored by the US department of Interior,, Bureau of land
reclamation. Therefore, I feel the data contained therein is accurate as
best as one might trust the US govt. An individual may select a state or
region of any lands controlled by the Bureau of Land Reclamation, and discover
what projects are planned or being currently conducted. For example, when I
explored Yuma, I found a project funded and conducted through the water district
that included population figures combined with a layering of economic value and
crop production of lands in the project.
- California counties
Maps coastal water quality for all California counties where monitoring exists
- California Watershed:
The following website contains Maps, Metadata, and spatial data. The data contains information on the
State of California Biological data, Habitat data, Physical data, and Administrative data.
- Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure:
For my final website I went a little on the wild side and looked for something exotic.
So I looked for information on Tahiti. Unfortunately there is not much out there. But
I finally found a site that has some good information, through the Canadian government.
The weird this is that Tahiti is a French colony, so you would think that it would be through
the French government.
- Canadian spatial data resource:
This is Canada’s twin to the USGS. This site is what a modern site should be like.
Easy to search, and use.
- CERES: USGS 7.5 Minute Digital Raster Graphics By County:
This website makes available DRG graphics for 63 California and Nevada counties. The data can be downloaded in
DRG and TIFF formats.
- Center for Coastal and Land-Margin Research
This site focuses on the Oregon coast. It does have several scenarios showing the impact of a tsunami
on the coast due to sea floor deformation due to a seismic event.
- Center for Tsunami Inundation Mapping Efforts
This site provides DEM’s for Washington, California, Oregon, Alaska and soon Hawaii as well
as bathymetry data for hazards mapping. Also at-risk populations information from the US
Census Bureau is available.
- Chart Tiff:
This site provides comprehensive data on California, spatially. It has DEM’s and DRG’s. This site also
has info on all other states.
- City of Las Vegas GIS Metadata:
Listed under coverages the following GIS meta data can be found, also along with this, a brief
description of each item and a direct link is provided: Zoning LV 3.2 (has a polygon attribute
table, attribute definitions, GPA destinations, and Agency descriptions), Sectional Index
LV 3.1 (has a polygon attribute table and definitions), Dissolved Zoning LV 3.4 (has a polygon attribute table),
City of Las Vegas Businesses LV 3.5 (has a POINT attribute table, notes and definitions), Resolution of
Intent(s) LV 3.3 (contains 2 polygon attribute tables and notes), City of Las Vegas Sewers LV 3.6 (has a
POINT attribute table and notes), Corporate Limits LV 3.7 (has a polygon attribute table, regions attribute
table, annotation classes, and notes)and Wards LV 3.8 (contains a polygon attribute table, regions attribute
table, annotation classes and notes).
- Clark County Regional Flood Control District
From the Clark County Regional Flood Control District web site, this web page
can generate rain maps for the valley over any given time interval in the Las Vegas Valley.
Clark County Regional Flood Control District
Another site from the Clark County Regional Flood Control District, includes a list of rain
gage facts including name, location, coordinates and elevations.
Clark County Regional Flood Control District
More data on the rain gages can be found when a query is sent for total rain fall at the
gage stations. Each location monitors the current water present in the channel/wash. An
increase in water level results in the generation of a rain fall record.
Clark County Regional Flood Control District
GIS data can be retrived from these electronic files located on the CCRFCD server.
- Climate Data
This site has information on climate data that you can purchase.
- Coastal Data
This site has information on coastal areas, marine surveying, and navigation.
- Coastal & Hydraulics Laboratory Tsunami Research
This site contains field measurement data from the 1992 Nicaraguan tsunami with topography, bathymetry and
sedimentology information.
- COLORADO:
geospacial information pertaining to the Rocky Mountains, Boulder County GIS, containing
coastal recovery layers and general distribution layers, Downloadable data includes
DEMs, DLGs, and thematic maps for various locations in Colorado, the Rocky Mountain
Region, and certain other locations throughout the USA.
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COLORADO
Development Information, Annexations, Subdivisions, Zoning Map, Growth Plan Map,
Transportation, Liquor License
- Columbia University GIS data:
This is the Columbia University downloadable data page for GIS maps and information. There is such a
wide range of data that you would have to see the site to truly acknowledge the vast amount of resources
that they offer.
- Digital Elevation Data
This website has digital elvation data
- Downloadable GIS Data Sets:
This link has GIS data ready for downloading in two formats, native Arc/Info and ESRI shape files.
This site contains GIS data on the following, also click on the links for a general description and meta data:
Street Centerline Database, General Points of Interest, Election Districts, Assessor's Tax Code Districts,
Resource Grade GPS Control, Regional Flood Control District Facilities, Department of Aviation Data Sets,
Contours, Faults and Soil Types, Clark County Water Reclamation District, Clark County Water Reclamation
Comprehensive Planning, Zoning, Resolution of Intent (ROI) and available Landuse, Development
Census Data.
- Ecocart
This site has international environmental information available for purchase.
- Economic Development GIS Property Locator:
This site offers parcel and zoning information in GIS map format. They also provide a link to an
Economic Development GIS Property Locator and Reports. In addition, this site offers interactive
GIS maps.
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Enviromapper:
This E.P.A. based website provides custom area information to area code in the U.S. Mapping information includes
locations of churches, roads, schools, hospitals, streams, hazardous wastes, and much more.
- Fisheries and Ocean Canada Science
This site contains on-line data, real time data as well as a data archive. Data ranges from mooring data,
water property profile, and currents to satellite images.
- Flight Track Data
Provides users with the ability to input an address, date, and time to search for flight track data.
- Free Deomographics
This site has free demographic information about the 1990 census.
- Free Natural Resource Data
This site offers free natural resources information to developing countries.
- GeoCommunity:
This site is a valuable source for spatial data from around the United States. It includes FEMA flood
data, and well as DRG’s and DEM’s, unfortunately they cost money, but they are on the more
reasonable end, and are rumored to be of high quality. According to reviewers on their website.
This website shows several different Data specifically for the state of NV. One could
use this site’s Homepage to access data from all other states as well. The
information contained is diverse in what can be purchased, but also in the
format in which the databases are presented. Some are DLG, DRG, EOO, ARC.
This web site would be helpful for obtaining current information but will
need to be paid for to access the information.
- Geodata
This site gives data on maps, and geospatial data.
- Geode (Geo data explorer):
The GIS information contained in this website is geared towards educators, private corporations,
and land/ resource managers to search and/ or create map databases with the option of differing layers.
This site provides USGS maps of the World (67); breaking each map down to its
various layers of: gas, petroleum deposits, different sedimentary layers of
earth formations. It is all downloadable in an ESRI format.
- Geonorth
On this web site there seems to be everything from applications, to jobs, and
even the data. There is news about the latest gis evolvement's and discoveries.
It has introductions for different kinds of gis programs and data for those
different programs.
- GEOSTOR: The online Arkansas Spatial Data Infrastructure:
This sit allows one to download via FTP, individual DOQQ or DRG files in TIF or MrSID format and
UTF projection. The data contains geological information on the entire state of Arkansas. Also, one can
download continuous vector and raster data in multiple projections and formats.
- GIS Data:
This site is particularly full of GIS information. It contains individual links to the websites of GIS data for
each state in the U.S. A variety of file type downloads are offered, including: DOQ, DRG, DEM, and
DLG’s. They even offer a link to a site that has GIS maps of the entire United States.
- GIS Data Depot:
This website has many links to countywide GIS data for the entire US. The data contained in the links
comes in many data types: DRG, DEM, NWI, DLG, LU/LC, and TIGER. This data is free to download,
but other these other types can be obtained as well for a small fee: DRG, DOQ, DOQQ, FEMA.
This is the GIS Data Depot website. They boast free GIS information for any state in the United States.
In order to view the data you must subscribe to an account through their site. These accounts let you
view DEM, NWI, DLG, LU/LC, and TIGER data types for free, but require you to pay a fee to view
the DRG, DOQ, DOQQ, FEMA data types.
GEO COMMUNITY
This site contains demographic data for the entire country, Digital elevation models,
Wetlands in arc info format, USGS quads for entire country, Flood data, Geologic data
- GIS development
GIS development is a very neat website and everything appears just a click away.
Given here via the link above is the page that I liked best within the site, which
provided some historical background and information regarding the GIS systems.
GIS development
Another link to the GIS development where a link may be “clicked” to take you to
the area where databases are available for sampling purposes only. Useful for a
person wishing to explore the functions and capabilities of GIS.
- GIS www resource list
This web site from the Univ. of Edinburgh is by far the most helpful.
The site contains a list of gis web sites that lead to different data
bases for all sorts of data.
- Globe Program
Teachers and students in primary, middle, and secondary school can
collect, report, explore, download, and map various kinds of environmental data using the resources on this site.
- GRASS datasets
Here are sample sets of GRASS datasets. I believe that this is yet another set of
software available ‘out there’ to collect, compress, process, and display databases
in a GIS.
- Ground-Water Data for California:
This site allows one to choose a particular ground water station and time period for downloading
raw data to enter into a GIS program. The data output provided can be of the following formats: Graph,
table, fixed-width table, and tab-separated. This data can then be imported into an Arc View system for
further analysis. Additional links from this web site are provided below:
Hydrologic Data Links
Surface Water Data Retrieval of the Mojave Desert
San Bernadino County, Ca. Riverside County, Ca. Inyo County, Ca. Kern County, Ca. Clark County, Nv.
Lincoln County, NV Nye County, NV Mojave County, Az. Washington County, Ut.
Current Stream Flow of the Mojave Desert
Mojave River at Lower Narrows, near Victorville, CA Palm Canyon Creek near Palm Springs, CA Deep
Las Vegas Wash below Lake Las Vegas below Henderson, NV Bill Williams
Virgin River at Littlefield, AZ
Additional Hydrologic Data & Information
Ground Water Atlas of the United States
Segment 1 of California & Nevada
Water Resources for California
USGS Water Resources of California
Water Resources for Nevada
Groundwater Networks in Southern Nevada
Water Resources for Arizona
Hydrologic Data for Arizon
- Hawaii Statewide GIS program:
This site includes GIS data on Hawaii’s physical features (base map layers), Political boundaries
(Administrative layers), Natural resources (Environmental layers), Hazard layers, and costal (marine layers).
The site supports the following data types: Metadata Files (txt,dat), Export Files (e00), and Zipped Shape Files
(dbf, shp, shx). Also as an added bonus the site offers a Free GIS data viewer program called ArcExplorer by
ESRI the link is provided below. Download ArcExplorer by ESRI.
- HDM
This site is a firm that deals with gis systems and has been working with
them sense 1988. There seems to be a number of data sets that they can
give or developed on request of the client.
- Hotel Finder
An interactive map utility that allows users to quickly locate and reserve hotel rooms
anywhere in the United States.
- Illinois GIS data:
This website contains GIS data and imagery for Illinois. There are different types of data and metadata available
on this site, they include: DRG files, DOQ data, geology, land use, political boundaries, nature preserves,
Public Land Survey, roads, water resources, wildlife areas, year 2000 Orthoimagery for the Des Plaines
River Watershed, and Historical Aerial Photographs from 1936 to 1941.
- The Interactive Atlas of Reproductive Health:
The atlases provided give informative health indicators by city, state, and nation wide health risks. It shows
demographics and risk concentration by groups. Other areas weigh the risk options.
- International Tsunami Information Center
In cooperation with UNESCO this site combines US data and data from other countries. Information in the form
of land use management, port-tsunami surveys, economics, etc… are available.
- Iowa DOT GIS data:
This website is the directory of GIS information available from the IOWA DOT. All information is available in
the form of zipped files. There is County Road Centerline Data for 2002, Statewide Data for 2002, and some
additional miscellaneous statewide data for 2002.
- Las Vegas Springs Preserve
The Las Vegas Springs Preserve has a great hydrogeologic cross-section map on this site with a
detailed history of the hydrology of the springs.
- Las Vegas Traffic Crash GIS:
Included in this site was traffic crashes for Las Vegas. An Arc Map can be downloaded directly from
this site along with, an Arc Reader PMF and many HTML Map files. It was created using the Geographic
Road Network Database (GRNDB) system. Maps of traffic crashes in Las Vegas are organized by the year.
- Las Vegas Valley Water District
The Las Vegas Valley Water District home page provides Global Positioning System data
for engineers and other agencies who could use the graphics from their site.
Las Vegas Valley Water District
Water quality data is listed in a table on this Las Vegas Valley Water District web page.
Although, I didn’t notice any analysis for perchlorate—the leading hot topic for Lake Mead.
- Las Vegas Water Quality:
The data contained on this site can only be obtained through a data request form. The data one may
obtain would be GIS water quality data for the Las Vegas wash, Las Vegas Bay and Boulder Basin of
Lake Mead. The form asks for specific water quality parameters and for the digital copy format desired.
- Manifold System
This site states that the GIS system that corresponds and the data available from
this site is: “The most powerful Geographic Information System (GIS) ever created.
Available in four product versions: Professional Edition, Professional with Debugger,
Enterprise Edition and Universal Edition. Manifold System 5.50 may be enhanced with
optional extensions as well: Business Tools, Surface Tools and Geocoding Data.”
The site did not appear very user friendly to me as a beginning student to discover
why they feel able to make such a statement, but they do have resources and data
available for purchase and should a person have special requirements they offer
customization as well.
- Market Map
Watch more than 500 stocks at once, with data updated every 15 minutes.
Each colored rectangle represents a company.
- Massachusetts Data
On this web site there seems to be a lot more data than there is
on the Rhode Island web site, perhaps because the state is bigger
and has a bigger population. The site has data layers that are
common with Rhode Islands web site such as; image data, indexes,
topography, hydrographic, environmental monitoring, and population.
- Massachusetts Soil GIS data:
This website offers GIS information about soil surveys in Massachusetts. It offers a direct link to the
GIS data layer of the soil surveys. This site also offers a variety of other links to websites containing
geographical information about Massachusetts.
- MIT Geodata Search Tool
This is a good site to find information on Mexico. MIT is leading the way in many fields and this site
is very easy to use, but you have to download their software once again.
- National Archeological Database:
This resource centered website focuses on state-to-state distributions of public archeological data
and information so that people nationwide could have the opportunity to understand what is currently
being excavated.
- National Data Buoy Center
This site provides both historical and real time data sea surface heights from bouys anchored
around the world. This is part of the Deep Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART).
- National Park Service - GIS Data:
This website offers a link to Data and Information that allows you to access and explore interactive
GIS maps of the National Parks. Also it allows you to request access to Digital Geospatial Data and a
link to the NPS GIS Data Clearinghouse.
- National Park Service: GIS Fires:
This website contains GIS fire information for the past 81 years for the Sequoia and Kings Canyon
National Parks. The information can be classified into groups based on the fires attribute characteristics.
You can view several layers of data.
- National Park Service:
National Parks are listed and showed on maps to give information about them. Resources,
views, navigation, are given to guide travelers on their journey.
- Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology. This site would be fun to explore and
discover what layering can be combined with one another to zero in on something
specific that a person might be trying to find. And then because it deals with
“locally” generated database information, I could actually utilize the information
to determine its capabilities, usefulness and accuracy.
- Nevada Division of Water Resources
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
From Nevada Division of Water Resources Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, this site has
links to hydrogeography/topo maps, climate and precipitation averages, river background information, ground
water resources and water quality facts for the state of Nevada.
- New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Real time information about New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
- NOAA:
This website shows meteorological observations of advisories, warnings, statements, and watches that the
National Weather Service announces in order to provide the population of America, and surrounding
countries with adequate information of weather systems.
- NOAA ERDAS data:
Land cover and change data available for download in ERDAS Imagine image
file format with metadata.
- NOAA Marine data:
This system allows the nation`s estuarine research reserves and marine
sanctuaries to use a customized GIS, Internet capabilities, and similar data
sets and management tools.
- NOAA Satellites and Information:
Satellite maps provide space for information and prediction dealing with fire related hazards and burns.
Layers include analyzed smoke, fire potential, and space and time increments.
- NowCOAST:
NowCOAST helps provide the National Weather Service with models for meteorological and river/ sea
quality information. It also gives the status of harbors, inland coastal regions, and major estuaries.
- Oddens
This site is so comprehensive and virtually all the data compiled in
here is free and very user friendly. Several formats are employed along
with virtually every GIS layering composite data I could possibly think
of that exists… it seems as if almost every other GIS site is
“linked” to this one.
- OREGON
Government boundaries, Watershed maps, Geology maps
- Oregon national wildlife
Metadata documentation on the wildlife habitat
- Pacific Disaster Center
This site has a huge library of GIS data in their archives including demographic layers
(e.g. cities, populated areas), geospatial boundary layers (e.g. coastlines, State and Federal
lands), geological layers (e.g. landcover, soils), hydrology layers (e.g. rivers, wells), facilities
(e.g. schools, banks), transportation layers (e.g. roads, airports), elevation data (e.g. contours,
bathymetry), emergency services (e.g. hospitals, fire stations), hazard layers (e.g. flood zones,
dams), Digital Elevation Models (DEMs), and Digital Raster Graphics (DRGs).
- Pacific Tsunami Museum
This site contains historical data for the 2 tsunamis that hit Hilo, Hawaii in 1946 & 1960.
Run-up maps are the most useful along with eyewitness testimony.
- Rhode Island Data
This site contains all of the data collected for just about
anything you wanted to know about Rhode Island. It has a lot of
the environmental data for ex. : landuse, nature, flood, soil,
transportation, utilities, wetlands, and geology. The site also
contains raster images. (rigis)
- Russian Academy of Sciences Tsunami Laboratory
This site contains data from tsunamis from every ocean. The historical data goes back to 60BC
with run-up data, event data and seismic data for every tsunami. There is also risk assessment data.
- Sentinel USA
The gis is used on this web site to map where utilities are found. It
shows the how utilities can be found and this is important because
engineers and other companies can find the best way to connect to
different networks.
- Shoreline Data Explorer:
This site shows multi-dimensional, high detail images and surveys of the U.S, and Canadian coastline used for
shoreline management. Data includes topography, hydrology, and environmental risk factors.
- Spatial Data Management System:
This site allows only a limited finding of Alaska that provides information such as rivers, estuaries, coastline,
highways, mines, towns, and the like.
- TENNESSEE
This site contains geospacial technologies and data for the state of
Tennessee. Tennessee national wetlands inventory quadrangle maps
- Texas school district locator service
This is a pilot test of an interactive Texas school district locator service.
- Tsunamis & Earthquakes at the USGS
This site has lot of animation models of tsunamis, but there is data on sedimentary deposits from recent
tsunamis.
- United Nations Environment Programme
This site has data for the different populations around the world as well
as the environment data from the effects of the population in that area.
It has data the shows the different pollution and the effects of the pollution
on the environment.
- The United Nations University
The United Nations University: International Network provides informational
databases on water, environment and health. This provides a useful link to
several different sites one may need to access.
- USC Tsunami Research Group
This site is somewhat sparse, but the links to specific journal articles that have been published by the
staff does contain specific data on field surveys and modeling.
- US Army Corps of Engineers
From the US Army Corps of Engineers providing datasets to anyone on projects and
data which they have created (and allow viewing of). The formats vary as well as
the kinds of database sets that can be found here.
- USDA Geospatial Data Gateway:
This website has a wide array of field interests for the person interested in natural resources and environmental data
such as soils, wetlands, and hydrography. It spans between states and larger areas such as countries by
using either a search engine or a coordinate system.
- U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
This site has a bunch of data relating to a lot of subjects
concerning the environment. The site also includes spatial
data with applications of the geological areas and also the
things that have been created by man. Some of the topics
that are available are waste, water, toxins, air, land,
radiation, and other studies. (rigis)
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Drinking water and ground water quality, standards, protection and injection control information
is posted by the Environmental Protection Agency in their Safe Water page. The data base includes
sets of contaminant databases, drinking water and ground water statistics and safe drinking water facts.
EPA air monitoring stations
This map shows the locations of EPA air monitoring stations in lower Manhattan.
- USGS National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse:
This is the website for the USGS National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse. This site provides links to the
National Map, topographic maps, orthophoto quadrangles, geographic names, satellite imagery and
photo archives, and a variety of other mapping products.
- USGS National Map Viewer:
The USGS is a very powerful source of information in many ways this being a good one and a recent upgrade,
that I have just noticed. It provides a very good map source that is completely interactive.
- USGS
This site is yet another from the USGS, however is fascinating to me because
of the information contained in the data. It consists of Shuttle Radar
Topographic Maps. Furthermore the format selected for presentation is termed,
“seamless”…something I am anxious to explore and discover more about.
- Univ. of Arkansas
This web site offers data for the southern united states as well as the
world. It also offers data for the state and environmental issues. There
is also has reports of the data collected and analyzed. There is a lot
of data that can be retrieved from this site for many different areas and
different themes.
Univ. of Arkansas
This site states from page one of its site that it is still under development.
However the information contained is diverse from what I had stumbled upon so
far. This site layers historic and archeological data to form GIS databases.
- University of Idaho:
The University of Idaho is a great resource for spatial maps. Much like Nevada’s Keck library.
But is requires you to download their software, and it hasn’t been updated since 1999.
- W. M. Keck Earth Sciences and Mining Research
Information Center:
This site provides DRG’s of Nevada, is very useful in getting grids that can be pieced together.
It is also a valuable source for topographic. Plus it also has information on GIS Software such as
ArcMap, ArcView GIS, ArcInfo and ENVI.
- Washington State Geospatial Data Archive:
This contains DEM’s for Washington, and is very useful and the best part is that they are free.
- The Wyoming Geographic Information Sciences Center
This site is a good source for Wyoming DEM’s. Easy to search and has many different options to search with.
- Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Tsunami Warning Center
Another Russian site with data catalogues of recent tsunamis like lat & long, earthquake
magnitudes and depths.