Locating Data Sets & Raw Data

The FGDC coordinates the sharing of geographic data, maps, and online services through an online portal, GeoPlatform.gov, that searches metadata held within the NSDI Clearinghouse Network.

A listing of GIS data sites from North Caroline State University.

Data sets from the National Weather Service. Includes links to data that are distributed via web server technology in the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

Environmental and natural resources data from the United States Department of Agriculture.

Find data and information presented both spatially and geographically.

Satellite and aerial imagery data including outside of the United States.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service National GIS Data.

High resolution topographic data and tools with most data being in the United States but some data is available for Europe, Australia, and Asia.