open data
Find Public GIS Data with Google’s Earth Engine Catalog
The Earth Engine Data Catalog lets users search and discover Earth observation public datasets.
Find Open Sources of Elevation Data With OpenTopography
OpenTopography is a portal that provides access to open sources of topographical datasets and processing tools.
Access Open GIS Data for Almost 11 Million Trees with OpenTrees
Developed by Steve Bennett, OpenTrees.org lets you visualize and download GIS data for almost 11 million city and park trees around the world.
Open Repository for Geospatial Training Data Released
Radiant Earth has launched Radiant MLHub, a cloud-based open library for training geospatial data used by machine learning algorithms.
36,500 Satellite Images from RADARSAT-1 Now Available to the Public
The Canadian Space Agency and the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation have released RADARSAT-1's archive of 36,500 satellite images to the public.
Fire Danger Reanalysis Dataset
Researchers have made 38-years worth of global fire danger reanalysis available as an open dataset.
125 Million Building Footprints in the US Now Available as Open GIS Data
Microsoft has made 124,885,597 footprints from all 50 U.S. states available as open data.
Open Data Program Launched by DigitalGlobe
The Open Data program offers high-resolution satellite imagery and crowdsourced GIS layers for large-scale natural disasters.
Find Users of Open GIS Data from Around the World Thanks to the Center for Open Data Enterprise
The Center for Open Data Enterprise is working to improve the quality of open access data worldwide, including GIS data sources.
How To Make a Map From Open Data Using a Spreadsheet
Jonathan Goldman explains in this tutorial how to extract an open data feed from a civic data portal and pull it into Google Sheets, and then map it quickly using Geosheets.
Making Nottingham City Council’s Open Data Available
David A. Eagle, Managing Consultant takes a look at how 1Spatial helped Nottingham City Council harness FME in to streamline the availability of open data to the public, reducing its need to spend staff hours on Freedom of Information Act requests.
Esri Launches Site to Find Open Data
Esri has launched ArcGIS Open Data as a portal for users to search, download, and visualize open data: Since July 2014, ...
Mapping the California Drought with Open Data
The Center for Integrated Data Analytics (CIDA) of the United States Geological Survey has created an open source visual description of California's ongoing drought using free and publicly available GIS data sources
EarthCube Data Initiative
Improvements in technology have led to the wide dissemination of information. As long as you have a computer, tablet, or ...
California Supreme Court Rules that GIS Data are Public Record
After a lengthy battle in the court system, California’s Supreme Court has finally ruled in favor of allowing public access to the government’s GIS data in Orange County. Back in 2007, the Sierra Club sued the county for the right to use its GIS data for environmental mapping projects. Orange County resisted, however, claiming that the digital maps did not fall under the Public Records Act.
Open and Machine Readable Now the Default for Government Data
On May 9, 2013, President Barack Obama sign an executive order making the default for government data "open and machine readable". The executive order was accompanied by the White House's Open Data Policy.