Questions tagged [geospatial]
Geospatial pertains to the geographic location and characteristics of natural or constructed features and boundaries on, above, or below the Earth's surface, particularly referring to data that is geographic and spatial in nature.
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Seeking shapefile of Boston in 1630?
I found this map on Reddit and was curious if anyone knows how it was made.
https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/2xu9ix/modern_map_of_boston_compared_to_original_1630/
I think I could make it if ...
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Geographical center of countries
Can anyone give me a hint where to find a list of the geographical centers of all countries over the world? (In case I don't want to calculate them from other data.)
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Seeking historical tileset 1939-1945?
I want a Mapbox tileset that shows the world as it was during the Second World War. This includes the boundaries of countries, roads and cities and their names, etc.
If no such resource exists, I ...
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Full address list for city Radebeul (Germany)
For a city of Radebeul, located in the federal state Saxony in Germany, I am looking for a list with all addresses, something like
id | Street | Nr | PLZ | City
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Seeking mosaicked global DEM?
I would like to know if there is already available mosaiced* DEM (digital elevation model) raster for the entire globe?
On this site, they provide this data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission ...
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Anonimised cellular network data
I am looking for a dataset with
research group of some cellular network users (identities anonimised) and
BTS (base transceiver station or cellular network stations) with their localisation
My aim ...
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Where to find census data for many countries?
I'm working on a GIS project and could really use your help. I've been googling all day but haven't had any luck. Where can I find:
list of all countries with reputable census data and link to the ...
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High-resolution, hyperspectral satellite imaging?
I am hoping to expand my (biology-focused) research to include satellite data. For this, I'd need satellite imaging that includes multiple values in the visible spectrum (specifically, above 490nm) ...
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Seeking reservoir data set for UK?
I was looking for reservoir data to understand who owns which reservoir, could not find it over the internet.
Anybody knows where I can find it?
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Where to find USA river basins data shapefile?
I need the shapefiles of all river basins polygons of USA. I need these boundaries:
in order to create river basins map in combination with DEM data.
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Population data as grid
I'm looking for world/europe/switzerland population data with a grid format. For example, 1km squares and then the population in that gridpoint.
I found one source, http://www.diva-gis.org/gdata
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Seeking data for spatial interpolation
Can someone point me to a Kriging dataset? If it is a natural data, it would be very great! (Such as rainfall, porosity, soil-density, atmosphere-concentration, etc. ), temperature observations. Or if ...
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Urban/Rural Designations for Census Tracts
I'm wondering if there is any data available that categorizes census tracts as urban rural. I've used RUCC data (https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/rural-urban-continuum-codes.aspx) but I believe ...
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Shapefile of Russian forest zones
I want to download a shapefile of forests in Russia by forests zone. Ideally a joint shapefile of forests and Russian administrative regions.
Can you give me a link to it?
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Where I can get the full list of San Francisco Bay Area Tech Companies?
There already a SiliconValleyMap, but I want to create a San Francisco Bay Area Tech Companies Map. Where I can find the company list?
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DRASTIC Method - Dataset
Data: I need a dataset including 7 layers to conduct the DRASTIC method as part of a master research. These 7 Layers include:
Depth to water layer
Recharge map
Aquifer Media type
Soil map
Impact of ...
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How to download an online ArcGIS Feature Layer without an ArcGIS license?
On ArcGIS.com, there are many thousands of vector layers available as "Feature Layers." For example, Active_Volcanos_WFS.
Access to Feature Layer is provided in the following ways:
View it online in ...
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Where can I find grid file of the Netherlands for R
I'm looking for a grid file (ideally 5x5 km) of the Netherlands, because I want to do kriging interpolation in R.
Where can I find that?
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Where to find Norwegians waterlines and water bodies shp?
I am searching for a shapefile containing waterbodies and waterlines (rivers, etc.) in Norway, ideally at scale 1:50 000.
I have found a great resource of topographic map here: https://kartkatalog....
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Utility network spatial data of any kind, anywhere
I am looking to find as many sources for utility network datasets as possible. Most preferable would be some that are at the city/town scale. This could be anything from water to electricty to gas to ...
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Sewer and Water GIS Data
Is there such thing as a national or statewide GIS data set for existing sewer and water lines?
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Seeking US PLSS GIS data: Township Range Section
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I have struggled to find a good/verifiable source for high quality PLSS data (USA Public Land Survey System). BLM publishes a national PLSS dataset, but in my experience working with it, ...
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Seeking a recommendation for an elevation or altitude site
What is a good website to find an elevation or altitude ?
Must be able to upload my kml/kmz to the site for review .
Must have Latitude, Longitude and elevation or altitude
I have personally used ...
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Open GIS data for SE Asia - Political and Administrative Polygons
I am looking for city and neighboorhood level (and other administrative divisions) data for as many countries in SE Asia as possible. It must be free to access and use. Trusted/official data is ...
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Is there an API to get the legality of alcohol (or legal drinking age) by geo location?
I need to make sure alcohol isn't advertised to underage users or in countries / regions where alcohol is illegal.
Ideally using MaxMind geo codes but I'm sure I could map from any geo system.
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Historic weather data - With clouds resolution
Im looking for a dataset that holds hourly/daily clouds coverage rates at different heights.
I need the data to a geo reference too, preferably United States data.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
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Subsea Pipeline Data for the North Sea
I have been looking for a vector file containing sub sea pipeline data in the North Sea, without much success. Any hints? (I have to be clear, pipelines only -no cables-)
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Funding resources for GIS Open Data creation?
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I have been doing some historical map research for a recent project, which led me to discover a very cool folio of high-quality surveyor maps of the Mississippi River from the 1880s. ...
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Separate Continent Shapefiles
I am looking for polygon shapefiles of 7 continents available separately (Africa, South America,North America,Asia,Australia,Antarctica,Greenland). I have got single polygon shapefile for all the ...
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How to get the birds daily observations data from different stations of any region
I searched many websites and I cannot get the correct solution. If anyone have the answer, can share with me.
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Dataset of lines at n miles from the coast
I'm using Folium to generate some interactive maps with ocean data. One of the restrictions I am facing is that the objects, I plot has to be at-least at 5, 6, .., n miles from the coast, hence I am ...
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Where to find 3D building footprint covering all USA?
Does anyone know where I can find a complete vectorial database of the 3D building footprints (x, y, z or building height) of the USA? At a cost or free. Thank you
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How to connect to States from the shape file?
I have a spatial file of the congressional districts of the US, however, the states are numbered in an unknown form. I have searched through all the other files but have found no key or description of ...
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Newfoundland Geospatial data source
I am looking for a source of geospatial data for Newfoundland, Canada comparable to Land Information Ontario (LIO) in Ontario. We are in need of mapping at scales 1:20000 (metric) and larger scales ...
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Where can I find land utilisation data
I need to find a database describing the land use for a given latitude and longitude. Examples of land use types: farming lands, urban areas etc.
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Kazakhstan hydro datasets
I am looking for river and lake data-sets for Kazakhstan region. I have already got data from osm_geofabriks. Are there any other sites which will offer me data-sets?? The format of the data-set can ...
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Seeking topographical data for northern Taiwan to make sense of peak-to-peak photos in 3D?
I've been hiking in the mountains around the Taipei/Keelung area for years and have lots of photos of distant peaks from other peaks. I'd like to build a 3D surface mesh of the topography so I can ...
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Is digital Ortophoto of Hungary publicly available?
It's quick and easy question regarding available WMS services in Hungary. I'm searching available Ortophoto or topographic images for Hungary but without any luck.
I must say that I'm having ...
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Seeking Commuting Zones (1990) shapefile?
I am hoping to have a shapefile for commuting zones (CZ) for the year 1990 to use in ArcGIS.
Where can I obtain this data?
USDA ERS provides commuting zones and labor market areas for 1990, but it ...
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Is there a central source for real estate shape files for across the US?
Is there a central source for shape files for real estate across the US. Most counties will provide shape files via the county appraisal district. But there are over 3,000 to request.
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Location (lat, long) of cell towers across the USA
Does anyone know of any complete database of cell tower locations with the following information?
Lat, long of cell tower
MCC, MNC, LAC, Cell ID
Range
Signal strength
I have checked out the data from ...
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School Boundary
I need to find individual school boundaries (primary for the State of California).
There are maybe 2 or 3 similar questions to this one (here and GIS exchange), but no answer down to the single ...
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Data dump of ZIP codes to Carrier Route IDs and the centroid (lat/long.) of the Carrier Route
I am trying to find an open database (or cheap commercial) that I can download; perhaps a CSV that would have all centroids of carrier routes for a ZIP code.
There are roughly fifteen Carrier Routes ...
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Looking for Spatio-temporal Datasets
A spatio-temporal dataset is a dataset which contains latitude/longitude and also time variables.
I got a spatio-temporal dataset on this site. The dataset contains 1077 rows of data. The problem is, ...
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USA Southern Border Vehicular and Pedestrian Obstacles
Is there a GIS source that contains the location and type of obstacles along the USA Southern border? Additional meta data would be great as well; when it was install, dimensions, materials, number ...
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Canonical form for romanizations of Arabic town names in Syria
Is there a Python package or database source which would allow me to go from various romanizations of Arabic town names in Syria and Iraq to a canonical romanization?
Here is an example where the ...
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Seeking Dominion Land Survey data (for Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba) to overlay in Google Earth?
I am new to this type of work, and thought that it would not be at all difficult to find a repository of DLS data (as a .kmz, .shp, etc. file) depicting township, range, and section boundaries that I ...
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Leipzig Districts and Parts of Districts in GIS-format
For a city of Leipzig (in Germany) I am looking for City Districts and Parts of City Districts in geospatial vector data format, that can be later loaded into GIS software, e.g. shapefiles, KML, ...
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Determining time zone and daylight savings time from latitude and longitude?
I have about 5,000 weather stations with its' lat, lon coordinates.
I would like to determine which Time Zone they fit into and whether they observe daylight savings time.
The sample of data looks ...
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is there a creative commons collection of country maps in svg format with corresponding country code
For a little hobby project am looking for a collection of svg files of maps of all countries in the world separately with the country codes included in the svg or filename. It would have a structure ...
