Spatial Data Integrator is the first Open Source ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) solution specialized in the manipulation of geographical information and supported by an editor.
SEDAC’s mission is to develop and operate applications that support the integration of socioeconomic and earth science data and to serve as an “information gateway” between the earth sciences and social sciences.
Nearly 90,000 high resolution scans of the more than 200,000 historical USGS topographic maps, some dating as far back as 1884, are now available on-line from the US Geological Survey. The Historical Topographic Map Collection includes published U.S. topographic maps of all scales and editions, and are offered as a georeferenced digital download or as a printed copy from the USGS Store.
Homepage for the National Land Cover Data set, providing a landcover classification to every 30x30m portion of the United States. Also provides tree canopy cover data for the United States.
ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn reports today on a new open source navigation project launched by European GPS company TomTom that adds additional functionality to navigational devices, regardless of the make or model. The OpenLR project aims to put navigation data on top of a GPS unit's existing database so drivers can access local traffic, weather, and other useful information as they travel.
We're pleased to be introducing our new TopoZone Pro service, adding shaded relief maps, high resolution aerial photography, street maps, and a whole lot more to TopoZone. We think TopoZone Pro makes TopoZone the complete source for Web maps of all kinds
250m True Marble global dataset. This is a low resolution version of the full 15m product. Two types of files are available for download: GeoTIFF and PNG.
The U.S. Census Grids provide raster data sets that include not only population and housing counts, but a wide variety of socioeconomic characteristics. These gridded data sets transform irregularly shaped census block and block group boundaries into a regular surface – a raster grid – for faster and easier analysis.
This geographic names data set provides a "mashup" of URLs for official city and county government web sites and city and county location data from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). GNIS data includes incorporated places, census designated areas, unincorporated places, counties, and populated places.
Contains various map databases on topics including topography, biodiversity, water use, etc. Also contains links to other GIS data sources. A good starting point for searching for GIS data from the United States.
Opticks is an expandable remote sensing and imagery analysis software platform that is free and open source. If you've used other commercial tools like: ERDAS IMAGINE, RemoteView, ENVI, or SOCET GXP, then you need to give Opticks a try. Unlike other competing tools, you can add capability to Opticks by creating an extension. Opticks provides the most advanced extension capability of any other remote sensing tool on the market.
Welcome to World Wind Geo: The Eclipse Geo browser. The Geospatial Web or Geoweb is a relatively new term that implies the merging of geographical (location-based) information with the abstract information that currently dominates the Internet. World Wind Geo is an experimental geo browser built on top of: