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 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 |
| USGS Global Visualization Viewer | US federal agency that provides LANDSAT data (global satellite imagery) for the world |
United States
New York State and New York City
| CUGIR | Cornell University's Geospatial Information Repository, with data for NY State, counties, and local areas |
| NYS GIS Clearinghouse | State government depository that compiles GIS data produced at the state, county, and local levels for New York State. Includes ortho imagery / air photos. |
| BYTES of the BIG APPLE | The NYC Department of City Planning's page has administrative and political boundaries, streets, transportation networks, shorelines, and tax parcels |
| NYC Open Data | This site culls together attribute and GIS data from several NYC departments and agencies |
| OpenGeoportal | Community of geospatial professionals that share data and metadata from several repositories through a common, open source interface |
| Geolode | A catalog of open geodata websites around the world, maintained by geospatial librarians |
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