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This page contains a categorised list of links to over 500 sites providing freely available geographic datasets - all ready for loading into a Geographic Information System.

GADM provides maps and spatial data for all countries and their sub-divisions. You can browse our maps or download the data to make your own maps.

In 2020, GeoPlatform.gov, operating under the authority of the Geospatial Data Act of 2018 , transformed to establish its primary role which will be to discover geospatial data assets with special emphasis as the authorized source for all the official National Geospatial Data Assets (NGDAs) across 18 Data themes as guided by the U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC).

Data sets are available from around the world at various scales, from global to local. Each data set is delivered with complete metadata, making it easier to add to a GIS (geographic information system) and compare to other data sets about the same place.

Landsat data, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) data, and Landsat-derived data and science products are publicly accessible and free of charge. These datasets can be viewed and downloaded from a variety of map viewers, data portals, and advanced cloud-computer platforms.

The mission of the National Geospatial Program is to provide National topographic information to advance science, support government, enlighten citizens, and enable decision making. The NGP provides a foundation of digital geospatial data representing the topography, natural landscape, and manmade environment of the United States.

Many of the National Weather Service data sets are available in formats that are able to be imported directly into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) or your own custom map viewers or web pages.

Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.

OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world.

The Geospatial Data Gateway (GDG) provides access to a map library of over 100 high resolution vector and raster layers in the Geospatial Data Warehouse.

Your source for open data within USGS. The USGS Science Data Catalog provides seamless access to USGS research and monitoring data from across the nation.