Related Guides
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Open Geospatial Data and Visualization toolsLove Data Week 2021: Open Data Everywhere and Many Tools for Visualization
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Intro to ArcGIS tutorial 1Introductory GIS tutorial using ArcGIS/ArcMap.
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Intro to ArcGIS tutorial 2Introductory GIS tutorial using ArcGIS/ArcMap
Welcome
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Spatial Reserves blogContains up-to-date information and guide to public domain spatial data.
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GeoSeerSearch engine for spatial data.
Frank Donnelly’s excellent tutorial on search and exploration of census data.
Exploring US Census Data: Basic Concepts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpAFvdwPAU0
Search Strategies for data.census.gov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO7RNA5IIOo&t=632s
Zipcod vs Zecta
https://atcoordinates.info/category/census-data/
Beta census.gov interface
https://data.census.gov/cedsci/
U.S. Street Network Shapefiles, Node/Edge Lists, and GraphML Files
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/CUWWYJ
Microsoft's AI generated building footprints for North America
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/maps/building-footprints
Google's Open Buildings, AI generated building footprints for Africa
https://sites.research.google/open-buildings/
Renewable Energy geospatial data and tools
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Geospatial Data Storefront U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development"The HUD-eGIS Storefront provides a one-stop shop where users can search for and discover HUD's geospatial datasets." More importantly, all the data can be accessed directly through ArcMap by adding the ArcGIS service "https://services.arcgis.com/VTyQ9soqVukalItT/arcgis/rest/services/Location_Affordability_Index_2_0/FeatureServer/0/query?outFields=*&where=1%3D1"
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Esri GIS for Racial Justice data portal"GIS hub to provide organizations with resources to help them improve racial equity."
Philadelphia & Pennsylvania
Social, Political, Economic
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U.S. Census TIGER ProductsBoundaries for states, counties, census tracts, and more.
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Social Explorer [PennKey required]U.S. demography and historical census data. Also includes U.S. election, Ireland religion, and U.K. 2011 census data. Use the tables feature to download data that can be joined to TIGER boundaries shapefiles.
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PolicyMap (PennKey required)Public policy, housing, and a plethora of other data sets for the U.S.
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SimplyAnalytics (PennKey required)Marketing data and projections for the U.S.
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National Historical Geographic Information SystemsThe National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides, free of charge, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and present.
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Integrated Public Use Microdata SeriesCensus microdata for social and economic research
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United States Congressional Districts (1789- present)Shapefiles for each session of Congress
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LandScan GlobalA global raster dataset representing ambient population counts at 30 arc-second (1 KM) resolution.
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The Gridded Population of the World (GPW)Models the distribution of human population (counts and densities) on a continuous global raster surface.
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Night Lights MapMap of world showing city and Urban lights at night. Can be used as a proxy for urbanization, density, and economic growth variables.
Historical Data
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United States Congressional Districts (1789- present)Shapefiles for each session of Congress
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National Historical Geographic Information SystemsThe National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides, free of charge, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States for years from 1790 through the present and for all levels of U.S. census geography, including states, counties, tracts, and blocks.
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IPUMSProvides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. IPUMS integration and documentation makes it easy to study change, conduct comparative research, merge information across data types, and analyze individuals within family and community contexts. Data and services available free of charge.
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PhillyHistoryPhiladelphia City Archive is one of the country's largest municipal archives, with about 2 million photographs, dating from the late 1800's.
Environment & Climate
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory"The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Geospatial Data Science Team analyzes wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and other energy resources and inputs the data into the GIS."
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Environmental Protection AgencySuperfund sites, brownfields, air quality reports, etc.
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Environmental Data ExplorerSource for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments.
Imagery & Elevation
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Free Satellite Imagery sources7 TOP FREE SATELLITE IMAGERY SOURCES IN 2019.
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Free Imagery dataTen sites for free imagery data
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Google Earth EngineA platform for petabyte-scale scientific analysis and visualization of geospatial datasets, both for public benefit and for business and government users. Earth Engine is free to use for research, education, and nonprofit use.
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SRTM Digital Elevation Data 30mA void-filled version of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) digital elevation model at 1 arc-second (30m) resolution for the globe. Users may also want to check the CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information (http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/) for SRTM data.
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Global Land Cover ProductsUSGS EROS Archive - Land Cover Products - Global Land Cover Characterization (GLCC)
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CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information90m Digital Elevation Data for the entire world.
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USGS EROS Archive - Sentinel-2The European Space Agency’s Multispectral Instrument on the Sentinel-2 satellite provides global (from 83 degrees north 56 degrees south latitude) 10-meter resolution, multispectral images every 10 days (2015-present)
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ArcGIS Open DataData that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed by anyone.
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