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Where can I get shapefiles for changing German territory during the Second World War?
I found the spatial history project, which give month to month changes of the front lines. The article covers all interesting information and you can download the dataset (after the first figure) - ...
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Shapefile of European Union regions and districts
The Global Administrative Areas dataset is available as a shapefile or file geodatabase;
http://gadm.org/
Also as several other handy formats (only available when you download an individual country ...
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Where can I find Historical GIS datasets?
For US data, the NHGIS project is by far the best source. From their home page:
The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS)
provides, free of charge, aggregate census data and ...
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Where to find Geology data for Europe - GIS
Whilst onegeology.org is great, and certainly there are a lot of European Geology WMS and some WFS services available. In this situation I think that currently (a) you might be better off going to ...
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Municipality 2017 shapefile Europe
A simple google of "municipality 2017 shapefile of Luxembourg" gives me this link which provides this shapefile.
In general the http://www.europeandataportal.eu is a good place to look for European ...
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Simple elevation data for Europe
I think you may find European DEM data useful. It can be retrieved with this link : http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/eu-dem
This not really Open Data, rather free data that needs you to ...
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German news/text data set
I think a good source would be the COSMAS II-Korpora from the Institut für Deutsche Sprache.
It seems there is free registration and downloads for non-commercial use.
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Real-time location of trains in France, Germany, Switzerland, and other countries
Finland has a real-time and train tracking website - Live Train Map
With the Live train map you can track the movement of trains. The information is based on train GPS tracking.
direct link
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Historical weather forecast API
Have you tried Google BigQuery?
GBQ has now loaded climate data worldwide from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) from over 9,000 weather stations. The data includes 2015 and ...
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Municipality 2017 shapefile Europe
If you want an official source for European administrative GIS data, check Eurostat's website. Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union. They gather (GIS) data from member states.
You ...
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Roadworks datasets or API services
You can apply to use the freely available Waze API for road conditions here.
https://www.waze.com/sdk
For road conditions in Europe there are links for Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, ...
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Real-time location of trains in France, Germany, Switzerland, and other countries
For the Netherlands someone built this map showing all passenger trains in currently in operation: http://spoorkaart.mwnn.nl/
This map is based on the data from this website: http://openov.nl/ (in ...
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Where to find Geology data for Europe - GIS
Can I suggest OneGeology.org. It's a portal for open geological data from around the world.
It's mostly designed around their web map portal; http://portal.onegeology.org/OnegeologyGlobal/ which ...
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Municipality 2017 shapefile Europe
A way is to perform an overpass-turbo query on OpenStreetMap data, like this one for Luxembourg: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/n7b and then download the data as geojson or gpx. You can then easily ...
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German news/text data set
Event registry provides access to news articles from more than 100.000 news sources in 15 languages including German. The only problem is that you can only get access to the last 3 years of articles.
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Number of Museums' visitors and ticket revenue
For EU museums: have you seen http://www.egmus.eu/nc/en/statistics/complete_data/ ? Seems to have what you want except aggregated by country
This isn't exactly what you're looking for but I wanted to ...
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Demographic data for Belgium or the Netherlands
For the Netherlands:
This data exists at zipcode and neighbourhood level, both provided by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).
Zipcode
The CBS publishes data per zipcode (called postalcodes in NL) ...
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Historical weather data
For Canada, you can download historical data by city in bulk csv or xml files from Environment & Climate Change Canada.
The example provided here uses wget to download all available hourly data ...
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Shapefile of European Union regions and districts
You can use OpenStreetMap data. Just download the Europe dump and process it.
For example,
$ wget http://download.geofabrik.de/europe-latest.osm.pbf
$ osmosis --read-pbf europe.osm.pbf --tf accept-...
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Google Map based on emergency location information
Regarding the request from philshem in the comments to the question, I will post my comment details as an answer.
Disclosure: I am the author of the mentioned website.
As a suggestion, as I feel it ...
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Longitude and Latitude coverage for the city of Porto
If you need a precise border of the city of Porto in coordinates, then extract a city boundary. Check these pages Getting city boundaries from openstreetmap and Getting polygon boundaries of City in ...
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Is there a publicly accessible map of the Swedish medium-voltage electricity grid?
Open Infrastructure Map is based on OSM Data. Let's use it to create own map / dataset. In below example I'm using R and mainly osmdata together with sf packages.
Let's download the boundary of Sweden,...
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High quality elevation data for Europe
if you prefer free resources, you could start with the sites listed on this page:
Free GIS Data – Elevation/ DEM/ DTM Data at Gisresources.com
https://gisresources.com/free-gis-data-elevation-dem-dtm-...
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Where can I find data about traffic flow for European cities?
The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies in France has data on traffic for national highways, railways and air traffic. This is their open database on Quandl: https://www.quandl.com/...
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Downloadable smartphones data (name, specs)
To find all Samsung items please open this link http://www.samsung.com/ae/data-support/search/autocomplete?mType=json&q=samsung
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Downloadable smartphones data (name, specs)
I was searching and no good options for this. so made a free restful api to get mobile device descriptions. 6700+ mobile device descriptions available now. you can use it in your applications.
but ...
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List of European countries and capitals with populations
A source of data in JSON would be a port of the CIA World Factbook.
Github repo
For example, the entry for Belgium
https://github.com/openmundi/factbook.json/blob/master/europe/be-belgium.json
Has ...
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