Guides: GIS &amp; Mapping: International Data

World

AidData - Geoquery
"Enables individuals and organizations of all skill levels to freely find and aggregate satellite, economic, health, aid, conflict, and other spatial data into a single, simple-to-use file compatible with Microsoft Excel and other common software."

AfriPop
Population density estimates across Africa in 100m resoluation Esri GRID format, as well as age and gender distributions.
Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic Map Data
Interactive maps and downloadable shapefiles on African ICT, power and transportation networks.
Africa Land Cover Characteristics Data Base
UNOSAT Horn of Africa Data

Austria

Geoland.at
Viewable data with links to provincial geospatial data sources.
Open Data Wien
Open data resources, some of which are geospatial, for Vienna. In German.

Belgium

Brussels UrbiS
Aerial photographs, parcels, and topographic data for the Brussels Capital Region.
AGIV
Data for Flanders region.

Denmark

Finland

National Land Survey of Finland
Some topographic data freely available as TIFF, shapefile, GML, or MIF.
Paikkatietoikkuna
National metadata catalog.
data.suomi.fi
Links to open data resources, some of which are geospatial. In Finnish.

France

Geoportal
National spatial data portal; datasets in catalog are not necessarily for free download, consult list of freely available data. In French.
data.gouv.fr
France's open data initiative, with some geographic data. In French.
ParisData
Open data portal for Paris.

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Geographic data downloadable as GeoJSON or Esri shapefile.
CRAIG Geocat
Catalog of spatial data for Auvergne. In French.
GeoBretagne
Shapefiles and maps from Brittany, downloadable from Catalog. In French.

Germany

Great Britain

OS Open Data
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.

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Most available as shapefile or TIFF.
Office of National Statistics Census Geography Datasets
Shapefiles of 2001 and 2011 census boundaries for England and Wales.
Scottish SDI Metadata Catalogue
British Geological Survey Open Geoscience
Environment Agency Open Data
London Datastore
Index of open data resources from the Greater London Authority.

Ireland

Italy

dati.gov.it
National open data catalog, with some geospatial resources. In Italian.
Sardegna Geoportale
Data catalog of downloadable shapefiles and images from Sardinia.
Instituto Geografico Militare
Italy's national mapping agency.
SITR Lazio
Spatial data from Lazio region. In Italian.

The Netherlands

Nationaal Georegister
National metadata catalog, mostly available as WMS, with links to distributing agencies.
Amsterdam Open GEO-data

Northern Ireland

Norway

geoNorge
National metadata catalog, with some downloadable data.
FactPages
From the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, licenses, wellbores, pipelines and seismic information in shapefile formate; see Geographical datasets to download.

Portugal

Spain

Center for National Geographic Information
Some free downloadable data.
IDEE Metadata Catalog
Search across spatial data from multiple Spanish agencies, some of which is downloadable.
Open Data Euskadi
From Basque Country.
Open Data gencat
From Catalonia.

Switzerland