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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Saudi Arabia - Urban area boundaries - shapefile - GIS data
I am looking for data on Saudi Arabia's urban areas for a research paper. I need shapefiles with polygons demarcating city/urban boundaries. There are datasets from 2002 but need something more recent....
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What is the most detailed freely available map data for planet Earth?
I want to create what is basically going to be a Google Earth clone, and for this I need map data, both
satellite imagery,
surface elevation and water depth, and
whether or not a location is water or ...
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Open place names and geographic coordinates?
Is geonames the best data source for finding geographic place names for every place on earth? Or is there any open data that comes closer to the level of Google or Apple maps? Just looking for place ...
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Error message using marmap (old R code) and plotting bathymetry with ggplot2
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When I use getNOAA.bathy from the marmap package I get a error message as follows
Querying NOAA database ...
This may take seconds to minutes, depending on grid size
Error in .local(.Object, ...) : ...
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Construction years for buildings in Berlin
I'm looking for a dataset with construction years for (possibly all, or at least as many as possible) buildings in Berlin. As I want to use it in QGIS, an already georeferenced dataset would be ideal, ...
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Shapefile of Portugal 4 digit Postal codes
I'm looking for shapefiles that contain Portugal 4 digits postal codes polygons
Are there any open-source or public resources where I can obtain these files?
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Seeking toutable file of German Road System
I am looking for a routable file of the German Road System in order to perform route calculation in QGIS, ArcGIS Desktop or even R Studio.
Can someone help me out?
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Seeking Geodata on German Roads
I am looking for a free datasource (or a possibility to extract that data from OpenStreetMap) on Germany`s roads. I need this data for the purpose of routing/ calculating the travel distance between ...
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Sources of yearly electricity consumption data for India?
I am looking for yearly or monthly electricity consumption data for India for the period 2013-2020. Is there any website that provides these kind of data? The data set should be at the District level ...
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GIS Data on US College Dormitories
I am trying to find spatial data on all (or as many as possible) US college dormitories. Specifically, I want to find the location as a polygon or centroid. I have tried a few methods to acquire this ...
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Polygon data for upper tier local authorities
I'm trying to draw an interactive map showing boundaries for upper tier local authorities in England, but can't find the data I need to draw them.
I have lat and long data, but not the polygon ...
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Seeking polygon data for upper tier local authorities in England
I'm trying to draw an interactive map showing boundaries for upper tier local authorities in England, but can't find the polygon data I need.
Can anyone help?
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Shapefile of South American Biomes
I'm looking for shapefile of South American biomes, but I haven´t got it so far. Can someone help me?
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Seeking carbon geospatial data
Is there a easy way to access and query carbon data such as the data that comes from OCO-2 satellite?
I’m trying to find a easy way of quantifying the carbon emissions within a certain area.
Ideally I ...
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download static/snapshot satellite data of the USA
I'm looking to download satellite data with resolution good enough to see objects that are 10 meters in size (eg tiles that are 20m x 20m). I do not care about changes over time. I'm basically just ...
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Multi family housing data
I’m looking for a source of data that will indicate the location and number of units in multi family housing across the US. I have already assessed data from the ACS and county parcel data but they do ...
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Where could I find map data of largest energy consumption sites in the US or EU?
I have found several websites, which provide data about the geographical location of largest energy producers. I have not however, found a map, or geographical data which tells me where the largest ...
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High-Definition Map - sample data
Description of High Definition Maps from Wikipedia:
A high-definition map (HD map) is a highly accurate map used in autonomous driving, containing details not normally present on traditional maps. ...
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What kind of alternatives to Google staticmap exist?
I need to get a bunch (>100.000) of static satellite images around a specific spot.
The way I do it now is simple: I send a request with longitude and latitude to Google staticmap API, like that:
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When did USPS start/stop producing its TIGER/ZIP+4 dataset?
When did USPS start/stop producing its TIGER/ZIP+4 dataset?
Updates to the product page archived by the WayBack Machine stopped in July 2011, but it looks like some people might have been using it ...
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Is there a publicly accessible map of the Swedish medium-voltage electricity grid?
I am aware of Open Infrastructure Map - it does a great job of showing electric power lines. I would like to have a datasource independent from OIM, showing the Swedish electricity grid, possibly with ...
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Time zones and country ISO codes
I am looking for a simple CSV with the list of country names, country ISO codes, city, time zone UTC and DST... It seems simple, but I am struggling to find it. Any advice/help would be very much ...
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Where can I find shapefiles of US county or city neighborhoods?
When I search for a neighborhood in Google I usually get a preview of that neighborhood on Google Maps in my search results. My question is... where do they get this data?
If it's city / county ...
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Finding missing creek / river names from the National Hydrography Dataset
I was playing around with the National Hydrography Dataset and overlaying the creek / river data over an openstreetmaps mapbox map: like so:
So one thing to note about that dataset is that not all ...
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Public Domain Watershed Data for Central and South America
I'm working on a project that will be in the public domain/ creative commons. I would like to find watershed/drainage basin data for Central and South America.
WWF provides HydroSHEDS, which covers ...
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Seeking mean annual temperature raster or vector map for land surfaces worldwide
In an attempt to do some climate and climate change vulgarization, in relation to vegetation sciences, I would need to find some reference sourced world map of annual mean temperature (monthly means ...
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Crosswalk from US Census Block to Congressional District
The Census geographic hierarchy diagram indicates that Congressional Districts are built from Census Blocks. However, I don't see any crosswalks from blocks to congressional districts on the Census ...
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Building height data for Niagara Falls/Niagara on the Lake
The OSM data sets from Overpass contain very little information regarding building heights/levels for a lot of North America. This is certainly true for the area that is currently of interest to me - ...
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Is there a dataset for the FAA's VFR Sectional and Terminal Area Charts bounding boxes?
The above is a raster map of the coverage for the various VFR Sectional Charts (large boxes) and Terminal Area Charts (small, red boxes) which cover the US.
I would like to find the lat-lon bounding ...
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Seeking UK School performance data
I am looking for UK school performance data.
I don't know what format that comes from, but I want to compare results achieved by pupils, for instance average number and grade of O and A levels per ...
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What are the known standards to map country names to super regions APAC, EMEA, and AMER?
I am looking for country-superregion mapping for the following super regions:
APAC = Asia Pacific
EMEA = Europe, Middle-East and Africa
AMER = North, Central and South America
So far I have only ...
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Greater Cairo Metropolitan area - Finding official spatial data
Hello i am currently working on mapping megacities but i am currently stuck at finding a suitable and official source for the greater cairo metroplitan area eg. what distritcs it contains plus an ...
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Recommendations for hydrology shapefiles for Russia and Eastern Europe
I'm trying to compile a list of high-quality, accessible hydrological map shapefiles for various regions for use in QGIS. I've found that Copernicus EU-Hydro is the best dataset for Europe (and indeed ...
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What "MOUNT_TYPE", "URBN_TYPE", and "COAST_TYPE" represents in European NUTS shape files?
I have downloaded the shapefile for European NUTS region fro here.
In particular I have downloaded the 1:1 Million SHP file for NUTS 2021 from here.
I have opened them using QGIS.
In each region there ...
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Seeking old map indices that goes back to 1930's datasets?
I am here to asking anyone about a datasets I am looking for.
You know USGS has these Map indices for
Here is the screenshot :
These are the current's one for today's BUT I had an idea and want to ...
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Looking for Crop Parcel Shapefiles for Southern California
I'm working on research that studies changes in crop growth in Southern California. Specifically, I'm looking for shapefiles that show what specific crops were grown on each parcel of land in Imperial,...
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USA block-level census data for mass-download
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Is there a way to mass-download block-level data from the USA Decennial Census besides just total population and housing?
Explanation
I know that some of the 2010 Census block-level data ...
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Population and Area in Sweden per zip code
I'm looking for the area and the population of all the zip code of Sweden.
I've found this Link to data 1 but it's per Parish code, and there is no link available to the zip code.
I could scrapp this ...
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Layers with soil properties in the UK
I am looking for companies/sources that can provide GIS layers about soil properties (e.g. soil moisture, soil pH, texture, nutrients) at a relatively high resolution (< 500 m pixel) in the UK for ...
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Collecting OSM data using ODK
I am trying to collect data about buildings using ODK and OpenMapKit. I managed to the follow the instruction without a problem and I manage to load a survey with OSM tags using the below links
https:/...
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High Resolution Digital Elevation Model for recent years
Where do I find SRTM or sentinel's high resolution DEMs for recent years? USGS is only giving the data till 2014, and I need at least for 2019. I've even tried sentinel hub but the cloud cover is too ...
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Soil-classes shapefile for the Netherlands
I would like to conduct a hydrological analysis for basins in the Netherlands and I am looking for a shapefile regarding the soil classes in the country. After some online research, I found European ...
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Public domain worldmap image showing Exclusive Economic Zones (water around islands etc)
I am looking for a public domain version of this image:
Requirements:
Raster or vector image (PNG, TIFF, SVG, etc)
Public domain (or MIT license, CC0)
Shows Exclusive Economic Zones of each country ...
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Seeking other source of information for railways to increase precision of shapefiles in Balkans
I am trying to create an infrastructure map for Balkan countries. The thing is that for countries such as Albania, Bosnia - Herzegovina e.tc., the shapefiles from OpenStreetMap http://download....
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get info on all catholic churches in Europe
i 'm looking to get info on all catholic churches in Europe. Specifically, I'd love to get:
their address
Denomination
Active/Not
Contact Info (website, email, phone)
and any other info I can get.
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Seeking Elevation Data
I'm trying to get elevation data and I have no idea where to look. I'm basically trying to get where land is above a certain elevation.
I'm primarily concerned with where land is above X' in ...
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Seeking other source of information for road networks to increase precision of shapefiles in Balkans
I am trying to create an infrastructure map for Balkan countries. The thing is that for countries such as Albania, Bosnia - Herzegovina e.tc., the shapefiles from OpenStreetMap http://download....
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Puerto Rico Land Use Land Cover GIS Data
I am looking for Puerto Rico Land Use Land Cover GIS data that has residential/commercial office/commercial retail classifications. I have not been able to find anything
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Georeferenced list of international border crossings
I am looking for a georeferenced list of international border crossings for Middle East and South Asia. Is there any reliable source?
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Need US federal source for ZIP codes (not ZCTAs) including ZIP code type
I'm looking to locate either a published table or federally hosted API that returns current (and/or past, if available) ZIP codes that includes the ZIP code type (S/P/U/Z/etc). This data must be ...
