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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Looking for average economic impact of all Farmlands per acre in Florida or U.S
I am researching on road alignment optimization. The research goal is to find least cost road alignment between two given points, considering highway codes. One of major factors which I want to ...
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to which extend we can use the data of healthsite.io - can we use maps etc. too?
to which extend we can use the data of healthsite.io
update:: well i guess that it is evident:
since the data in Healthsites.io are indeed under the ODBL licence: https://github.com/healthsites/...
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Identifying State Parks in the PAD-US dataset (Protected Areas Database)
I'm looking to map "State Parks," and I found this phenomenal, but complex database. Has anyone ever worked with the PAD datasets before? (or know any easier way to map State Parks?)
In the PAD ...
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US Wifi Hotspots
Looking for US Wifi open geospatial data; I read through all of the wifi tagged questions including database of wifi hotspots but feels like this is unique enough and could use some refreshing.
Here's ...
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Logistics data sources for data analysis work
Where can I find logistics data sets?
I look for data for my student to analyse in a bachelor thesis.
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Global sea/ocean polygons (with names)
I am looking for a global dataset with the extent of seas and ocean in a vector dataset of polygons. I know that boundaries are sometimes fuzzy (maybe crisp boundaries don't really exist in some case),...
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GIS Data: French Colonial Cercles
Cercles and districts were administrative units in French colonial Africa. I am looking for GIS data on their boundaries. Hints on where to find adequate digitizable historic maps on those ...
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Seeking rayon (district) level administrative boundaries for North Caucasus Federal District (Russia)
I am doing a research project in which I need accurate rayon (district) level administrative boundaries for the North Caucasus Federal District of Russia (shapefile or geodatabase). Among other sites ...
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Can anyone recommend a comprehensive site to find Building Shapefiles for Sydney and its suburbs?
I am looking for a more comprehensive site for Building Shapefiles for Sydney and its surrounding suburbs which I can upload into QGIS. I have already downloaded the shapefiles from Geofabrik (https://...
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Looking for land value data for anywhere in North America especially for Florida
I am researching on road alignment optimization. The research goal is to find least cost road alignment between two given points, considering highway codes. One of the major costs which needs to be ...
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Seeking US Border Patrol Sectors shapefile
I am trying to find a shapefile containing the boundaries of the different border patrol sectors as shown here.
I have searched the US BP website and other sources/databases extensively. There are ...
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windmill dataset in the Netherlands
Since the Netherlands is famous with the windmill, how come I can't find the spatial dataset of it? I tried to look at :
https://www.pdok.nl/
https://data.overheid.nl/
https://data.amsterdam.nl/
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National Congressional Districts vector tileset
Is there a vector tile set available online somewhere of US national congressional districts? I have been downloading shapefiles from the US Census bureau's shapefile repository, converting these to ...
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How to download Road map dataset of previous 20years
I want to download the Road map dataset of the previous 20years. How can I find the data and access that? I prefer Google Road map data.
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Datasource with global cities/towns/villages with Englisch names and coordinates
In almost ever GIS project there is the need to map nearby cities and towns, often also small villages in rural areas.
Open Street Map (OSM) offers a lot of spatially explicit data including "places" ...
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USGS 3DEP DEM, what is an AWS "Staged Product"? Can I access "Staged Product" data over S3?
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has available as part of the 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) a 1-arcsecond Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of the conterminous United States (CONUS) — see 3DEP DEM....
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What is an effective way to share many geojsons that are a timeseries?
I currently have a long-running scrape that collects geojson data for Zürich bike-sharing. Each file is appended with a timestamp of when it was collected. The file structure doesn't change.
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Why are some tract geometries duplicated in census data?
I have been writing a Python program to analyze the contents of shapefiles from the 2010 U.S. census, and I came across some odd duplication that I cannot explain. For example, in the 2010 shapefile ...
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Data resources for air pollution time series
I am trying to learn some Spatial Data Analysis before applying for a PhD in Environmental Epidemiology and Exposomics (I am a Computational Biologist). Therefore I want to work on a small personal ...
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Background data ski areas
For an assignment, I'm trying to visualize a specific ski route. The sample is taken with a GPS tracker in Obergurgl & Hoghgurgl, Austria. I am using QGIS for this assignment. I could insert the ...
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Seeking 800M or better resolution Annual Precipitation (at least two different years) raster data for four corner states or the Navajo Nation
I was wondering if anyone on here might know where I can find at least 800 meter or better resolution of Average Annual or Average Monthly Precipitation data, that would cover the 4 corners area (UT, ...
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Seeking polygonal river data complete with river bed width
I am trying to find data of rivers that are not made of simple lines. I need polygon data so that the river bed is visible.
Is there any global or regional data source?
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South Africa inland lakes bathymetry/depth contours
Someone was able to find information or a database on bathymetry/contour lines for inland lakes in South Africa?
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searching for clouds (in the sky) images big dataset
I'm looking for a big dataset of clouds (in the sky) ground based images. i need tens of thousands of images.
It is important that the images will be ground based and not from satellite/ flights.
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How do I download a Maharashtra Village Boundary layer .?
How to Download Maharashtra Village Boundary.?
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Geo-coded Russian Cities Data
I need an open source geo-coded dataset for cities in Russia (global data would work fine also as long as it includes Russia).
So far the best I've found is the simplemaps dataset which has partial ...
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Seeking Building Shapefiles in New South Wales, Australia
Is there a website with a comprehensive source for Building Shapefiles in New South Wales, Australia?
I have downloaded the Shapefile from here https://download.geofabrik.de/australia-oceania.html ...
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Open access P Band Radar data
Are there any sources for open access P Band radar data? I need it for a single city block in the Middle East, outside United States.
The Russian Aist 2D has a P Band SAR on board, but the data seems ...
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Seeking 1890 County Shapefiles of Scotland
I am struggling to find the county border shapefiles for Scotland that came into effect in 1890. I keep finding "counties before 1890" when googling. So, the file I'm looking for does not include a ...
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Is there any public data source for LAS 1.4 or at least point format 4 or above?
I have looked at https://opentopography.org/tags/data.
The data I obtained from https://opentopography.org/tags/data was in 1.3.
Some one told that it should be available at usgs site but I felt ...
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Free Datasource for DTM in Northwest Russia (Karelia)
I'm looking for a Digital Terrain Model in the Karelia region (Russia) with a spat. resolution about 30m. (Also Contour Lines would be ok)
I read an article about the "RuDTM2014" https://www....
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Obtaining map of all public space of France
If possible through shapefile format (GIS), I'd like to get a map of all over Metropolitan France showing public space, id est public woodlands, public parks, roads, public lands, etc, owned by the ...
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Searching for a query-able nationwide data source of official german TK25 cartography numbers
I am looking for a single data source containing the so-called TK25 numbers, aka "Messtischblattnummern" (preferrably quarter-TK25).
I want to intersect the TK25 data with vector data (e.g., a ...
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Where can I get a data set containing road length,road type(both) of Delhi,India
I have a dataset that contains latitude, longitude(one pair) and road type of each road of a road network.
But I need road length for each road. So how can I get it?
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Georeferenced Köppen climate classification maps
Wikimedia Commons has a large collection of Köppen climate classification maps in its Category:Köppen-Geiger. For example, Russia, Canada, or USA. The formats available on Wikimedia Commons are (...
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Anyone know of any open access satellite/aerial imagery that doesnt need a transformation for use in UK in ArcMAP?
I'd like some satellite imagery (high res a possible but not essential) for use in ArcMAP (10.7) without a transformation.
I have high res (to cm scale) survey data to work with, the basic imagery ...
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Is there a dataset for the flow of people?
Data: I am looking for an anonymised dataset for the flow of people I suppose one may know about it with the cell site or towers. I woul be especifically glad to get geojsons.
Context: I am looking ...
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Where can I find free and accurate Parcel data for counties in the US
I would like to know if it would be possible to find Parcel boundaries for counties in the US through Open Source resources (free). I am particularly interested in parcels for counties in the state of ...
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Seeking comprehensive open source for building shapefiles in USA
I am currently looking for a comprehensive source for Building Shapefiles in the USA, particularly New Jersey. I have come across a few websites e.g. geofabrik (http://download.geofabrik.de/north-...
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Where can I find sample Lidar data for counties in Florida
I would like to find out where I could download Lidar data for counties in Florida
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Where could I find road data for counties in the state of Florida
I would like to know about websites from I could download roads data for counties in the State of Florida. I was able to find Tiger shapefiles for each county in every state in the US. However the ...
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Historical data of what country a city belongs to over a historical period?
We run a sports history site and occasionally we run into issues where a person was born in Prague, but in 1887, and we wish to display the correct country at the time of their birth rather than at ...
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Where one can find historical and\or actual europe shore height data?
So remember Venice floods? I wonder where one can find a record on historical and\or actual Europe shore height data (especially for north Europe)?
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Data on radio station tower locations in Africa
Hey I am wondering if it exists somewhere a public access dataset or map of radio tower location for African countries. I am interested in towers transmitting signals in AM/FM waves for radio stations....
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Aquifers and borehole wells in the UK
I want to be able to plot aquifers and borehole wells in the UK. I need to find out how far each aquifer and borehole well is from surrounding buildings and infrastructure.
Is the only way to do this ...
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Where can I find GIS data of Haiti Earthquake damage from the assessments made in 2010?
Where can I find GIS data of Haiti Earthquake damage from the assessments made in 2010? All sources seem to be dead links or PDF maps with no source data.
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Swiss municipality elevation (altitude)
I am looking for elevation data for Swiss municipalities (Gemeinden). I'd like something simple that can be joined to other data sources, for example, as a CSV,
postal_code municipality_name ...
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World dataset of hospitals
I am looking for a (global) dataset of hospitals: mainly locations, but if possible also names, sizes, number of beds. As far as I can tell, this does not exist yet, but perhaps there are good ...
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Does anyone have better maps for the east coast of the USA, or the entire USA to use with XASTIR directly?
I have a fresh install of XASTIR running on a Pi 3, but the maps are pretty poor at showing details. Does anyone have any mapps they can share with me for my XASTIR system, that are better than what ...
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Looking for “old” Parish & County Boundary Data set for Queensland, Australia
The latest datasets from QSpatial no longer contain the Parish & County info. It is no longer used in Queensland. I am doing some research into historical mining activities and this dataset would ...
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