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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GIS data for Castles - UK, Europe also nice
I am looking for data on castles, preferably UK, although I won't object if it extends to Europe.
Must be mappable, so lat/long is necessary. Any data beyond that is a bonus. E.g date of con/de-...
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Seeking list of all US cities and their latitude and longitude
I am looking for a list of all US cities and their latitude and longitude.
Ideally something free will work but I'm willing to pay for it if its not too expensive and its complete.
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Seeking shapefile for countries of former Soviet Union
I have data at the country level for the 15 countries of the former Soviet Union but does anyone have a shapefile?
My research assistant is claiming she cannot find one.
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Downloading Bhuvan Panchayat 3.0 raw data
I am trying to download road and other spatial data files used on the Bhuvan Panchayat 3.0 website (https://bhuvan-panchayat3.nrsc.gov.in/). Is there a way to either directly download the raw data ...
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Downloading Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) GIS data?
I am trying to download road data from the PMGSY/GRRIS website (http://www.pmgsy-grris.nic.in/). While the in-site visualizations are helpful, I wanted to know if there was a way to access the raw ...
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Seeking Digital Terrain Map of Israel
Where can I find an open detailed DEM/DTM model of Israel for some research?
I have found:
https://www.diva-gis.org/gdata
https://www.gov.il/en/departments/general/israel-and-regions-aerial-photo-map
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Older Satellite Images from Saudi Arabia
For Research purposes on "how Sprawl effects Urbans", Is it possible to get a 50 OR 40 years old Image of a certain location ( 26°37'59.59"N, 49°58'3.32"E) in the eastern province ...
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Is there dataset of historical geocoordinates of ancient cities and places?
Is there a freely available dataset (csv, geojson, topojson, etc.) with geocoordinates (latitude, longitude) of ancient and tombs, for example of the towt? Ideally with additional information like ...
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Seeking locations data of all police stations in India
I want to get the locations of all the police stations in India. There is definitely some data which is present in the OpenStreetMap which I am able to crawl. However, there are about 15,579 police ...
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Seeking River Thames polygon data
I'm having trouble finding data on the River Thames, specifically in the greater London, UK area. I am trying to georeference and digitize a map of the 1666 fire of London for my final project in my ...
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Seeking shapefile of Districts Cyprus in vector format
Where do I find the shapefile of Cyprus communities?
I am referring to the small black polygons that made the districts - Famagusta, Kyrenia, Larnaca, Limassol, Nicosia and Paphos in the picture below....
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Where do I get hourly temperature data for cities with a high spatial resolution?
I want to do a project with very high spatial resolution temperature data from a city (any city) with very high resolution (<10 m), in an attempt to create an animated 3D microclimate map for that ...
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Downloading LIDAR from The National Map
I have found the .las file I'm looking for of Mill Basin, Brooklyn, NYC... USGS Lidar Point Cloud NY CMPG 2013 18TWK910955 LAS 2015.
I navigate to the area of interest, create my bounding box, search ...
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gps coordinates of train routes
I have a project wherein having train route information would be useful. Like if I could get GPS coordinates that form the routes themselves I could do maps like https://www.amtrak.com/track-your-...
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Best Sources of Earth's Topographic + Bathymetric Data?
I used some data from Nasa (Topographic & Bathymetric) to create a 3D (non-round) model of the Earth's surface, nothing insanely detailed. Those images are large enough for what I need, but they ...
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Road network data with speed limits
I need road network data of Sweden with the speed limit of each segment of the road. I downloaded it from https://download.geofabrik.de/ but unfortunately, there are a lot of missing values there. Is ...
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How to find different nodes in proximity to each other in OSM?
I have been tasked with researching good locations for vending machines.
I have positive factors such as:
School nearby
Bus Stop nearby
Gas station nearby
Then I have some negative factors like:
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Seeking web service to return waterbody names for “unimpaired water segments”
I am looking for a dataset or a web service that can return a list of unimpaired water segments.
There exists ATTAINS, a web service that will give the name of "impaired water segments" by ...
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Land cover map of Germany and Netherlands
I am looking for a high resolution land cover map in Germany and Netherlands (ideally for the whole country, but local datasets are also welcome). I know that I can get some information from Open ...
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Trying to find historical building footprints or centroids
I'm currently doing a research project analyzing how cities evolve over time and were wondering if there were any good online databases for finding historical building footprints. I've been looking ...
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Shapefiles of the Great Wall of China and the Silk Road
I am looking for shapefiles of two Chinese landmarks.
Great Wall of China. Format: spatial lines. The sources mentioned in another post are apparently not available anymore.
Silk Road. Format: ...
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Where can I get a reasonably small geojson file for the boundaries of Canadian provinces?
I have looked on kaggle.com and done a lot of Googling. The only thing I found was one that has 2000 vertices in the polygon for each province. That is too large to write to DynamoDb, which is what I ...
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Source for good administrative area boundary data US, MX, CA
We are using SQL Server to calculate mileage breakdowns per state. It's a simple query to find length of intersection between path (polyline) and shape.
Data for US, MX, and CA were sourced from ...
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Need data populated/inhabited areas for Madagascar
I am trying to analyze the number of schools per square kilometer in Madagascar, but only considering the number over inhabited areas. I have data on schools from the World Bank, but I can't find a ...
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From where do I get shapefiles for all the states in USA at Census Tract level with "population" or "population density" data too?
I scoured the US Census site for any data like the population at Census Tract level, for the year 2019 or 2018, but I am unable to find it.
I can get plain shapefiles that do not contain any ...
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List of weigh stations in the US and their locations?
I'm wondering whether there is any open data out there that comprehensively lists weigh stations in the US and their latitude/longitude. Other vehicle inspection facilities would be interesting.
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Shapefiles for Paraguay
I am looking for the latest shapefiles of the whole Paraguay:
Soil type
Contour
Land use
Precipitation
Administrative boundary
Open green space
Built-up area
I have looked at it on the national geo-...
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Possibility for exchanging QGIS project files
Is there a site or "Service" to exchange QGIS project files? Perhaps creation of one would be interesting for others.
For example, I have created a complex project for sewer managment. I ...
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Is there cleaner alternative of the original JAXA ALOS AW3D30 digital surface model (DSM) data?
The team from JAXA made a great job on DSM derived from ALOS-2. However, I find issues on data, e.g.:
satellite stripes footprints, elevation drops by 1 to 5 metres
rare, but obvious noise in data
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Obtain high resolution data for Papua New Guinea-Madang Province (QGIS)
I'm currently working with a dataset of contagious bird illness in Papua New Guinea (specific for the Madang Province) and I would like to plot it in a map and try to run a few models, however all the ...
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CORINE Land Cover - interactive map which allows to emphasize/display/look for particular class
Is there an interactive map with CORINE Land Cover data, which allows to me to find places with presence of a particular CORINE Land Cover class?
Interactive maps like this one exist: https://...
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historical annual average temperature by country (with data after 2016)
has anyone come across a data set of all countries with historical average annual temperatures? The World Bank provided exactly this (see here), but has not updated it after 2016 - I would like to ...
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Longitude and Latitude coverage for the city of Porto
I would like to have an idea of precise coverage (extend) for the latitude/longitude of the city of Porto, Portugal.
This is in connection with my research that I need to filter out geolocation data ...
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Looking for a Geoda map with OECD countries
For my undergraduate thesis I must do a spatial analysis over the OECD countries, but I cannot find a map for them, due to them being so spread apart. Funny thing, even my spatial analysis teacher ...
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Text Dataset for Entity Recognition of personal data
I am looking for a data set to train and set up a personal information masking application. Is there a text data set available with the name, location, bank account numbers, SSN, Name, Ip address etc (...
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Where can I find Political Party Affiliation Data?
I would like to make a heat map based on political party membership density in (e.g., California 60% democrat, Kentucky 70% Republican, etc.), preferably at the county level.
Does anyone know of a ...
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Polish road numbers used with kilometric points
When Polish road authorities refer to a location along a road using kilometric points, they append an extra letter (S5a, S5b, S5c…) to the road number to refer to different stretches of the road with ...
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County list of Woodard's American Nations
I've been looking for a list of counties in each "nation" of Woodard's map of American Nations. However, I only found maps of it and certainly as a beginner in the field, I am unable to transform this ...
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Is the most up to date data from the US Census on ZIP Codes (ZCTAs) from 2010?
I grabbed ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) from census.gov and I'm a bit confused because the data for Zip Codes seems to be from 2010? Is that right?
Do they not change frequently enough to ...
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How can I access GAEZ potential yield rasters?
I need rasters of global potential yields for various crops globally for a research project. These rasters are available from GAEZ, as pointed out in the answer to this question.
However, the GAEZ ...
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Where can I find historical natural disasters by country?
I'm trying to find a dataset that contains number of historical natural disasters by country in the longest lapse of time possible. Would appreciate your help.
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Global/European maximum daily temperature forecast
I am searching for either global or preferably European maximum daily temperature forecasts (I don't care for any historic data). To give you an example:
I wake up in the morning and want to know the ...
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From where can I obtain 2018 LiDAR Digital Surface Model for Texas?
I am looking for a 2018 Lidar DSM (not DEM) for Texas, US. Do you know any source from which I can obtain the data?
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Altitude data for european highways
Are there publicly available altitude data for the major european highways? I need the altitudes on the road surface, not in the surrounding area. I believe that the open DEM files (or SRTM data) ...
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Seeking data that shows stay at home orders by United States county for COVID-19 crisis
I'm looking for GIS data that shows which US counties are issuing "Stay at Home" orders all across the US. It would also be helpful if the data included which types of businesses were allowed to be ...
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How to read *_LOW_HN / *_HIGH_HN fields in NY Street Centerline Data?
I've been looking at the NYC Street Centerline (CSCL), in particular number ranges for individual street segments.
Quite a few look like this:
ST_NAME L_LOW_HN L_HIGH_HN R_LOW_HN ...
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NGVD 29 undulation layer
I am looking for NGVD 1929 undulation layer. So that I can convert my vertical datum from NGVD 1929 to WGS 1984. I was able to get EGM 2008 undulation layer in GeoTiff format. I was hoping to get the ...
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Finding GIS data layers in Denmark
I am currently working on a university project that focuses on finding most suitable locations and equipping the Hørsholm Kommune with EV charging stations.
I am, however, not from Denmark and my ...
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Where can I find Sentinel L1C images (.SAFE) from 2015-2019 now that they are not available anymore on the Copernicus Open Access Hub?
I am looking for Sentinel images from before 2019 in L1C quality and .SAFE format, as I want to correct them with sen2cor in SNAP to convert them to L2A quality. Where can I find them now that they ...
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Looking for weekly death data by State/County/City
I'm looking for up to date weekly death rates in first the US (ideally EU and East Asia sources would be great too) that is tracked at a city/county level (implying state level as well). Something ...
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