International GIS Data: Europe

European administrative boundaries, ports and airports, urbanization, and land cover.

For the Baltic Sea area, downloadable shapefiles of protected areas, pollution, shipping, fisheries, and some background data, from the Helsinki Commission. (Site is currently under maintenance but click here for the same data).

Distribution maps of tree species across Europe, in shapefile format.

Viewable data with links to provincial geospatial data sources.

Open data resources, some of which are geospatial, for Vienna. In German.

Aerial photographs, parcels, and topographic data for the Brussels Capital Region.

Data for Flanders region.

National metadata catalog. In Danish.

Some topographic data freely available as TIFF, shapefile, GML, or MIF.

National metadata catalog.

Links to open data resources, some of which are geospatial. In Finnish.

National spatial data portal; datasets in catalog are not necessarily for free download, consult list of freely available data. In French.

Data available for educational purposes from France's national geographic institute.

France's open data initiative, with some geographic data. In French.

Open data portal for Paris.

Catalog of spatial data for Auvergne. In French.

Shapefiles and maps from Brittany, downloadable from Catalog. In French.

Open data catalog for all of Germany, contains some spatial data. In German.

Search for "shapefile, "Gis," or "geodaten." In German.

Search for datasets from multiple agencies or browse directory of data providers.

From the Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency. Includes OS VectorMap™ District (mid-scale buildings, roads, railways), OS Street View® (simplified street level map), and Boundary-Line™ (electoral and administrative boundaries), among others.

Shapefiles of 2001 and 2011 census boundaries for England and Wales.

Index of open data resources from the Greater London Authority.

Some data in KML format.

Some free geologic shapefiles.

National open data catalog, with some geospatial resources. In Italian.

GIS data from the Lombardy region, in shapefile, AutoCAD, and MapInfo formats. In Italian.

Data catalog of downloadable shapefiles and images from Sardinia.

Italy's national mapping agency.

Spatial data from Lazio region. In Italian.

National metadata catalog, mostly available as WMS, with links to distributing agencies.

Water, natural and built heritage, in shapefile and GML formats.

National metadata catalog, with some downloadable data.

From the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, licenses, wellbores, pipelines and seismic information in shapefile formate; see Geographical datasets to download.

National portal to geospatial data, some of it downloadable. In Portuguese.

Some free downloadable data for the Azores. In Portuguese.

Some free downloadable data.

Search across spatial data from multiple Spanish agencies, some of which is downloadable.

National catalog of open government data, some of it spatial.

From Basque Country.

Barcelona's City Hall open data service.

From Catalonia.

Spatial data catalog.

Boundaries and other basemap data, in shapefile and other formats.

Swiss environmental data.