Find Public GIS Data with Google’s Earth Engine Catalog
The Earth Engine Data Catalog lets users search and discover Earth observation public datasets.
Find Open Sources of Elevation Data With OpenTopography
OpenTopography is a portal that provides access to open sources of topographical datasets and processing tools.
Access Open GIS Data for Almost 11 Million Trees with OpenTrees
Developed by Steve Bennett, OpenTrees.org lets you visualize and download GIS data for almost 11 million city and park trees around the world.
Open Repository for Geospatial Training Data Released
Radiant Earth has launched Radiant MLHub, a cloud-based open library for training geospatial data used by machine learning algorithms.
36,500 Satellite Images from RADARSAT-1 Now Available to the Public
The Canadian Space Agency and the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation have released RADARSAT-1’s archive of 36,500 satellite images to the public.
Fire Danger Reanalysis Dataset
Researchers have made 38-years worth of global fire danger reanalysis available as an open dataset.
125 Million Building Footprints in the US Now Available as Open GIS Data
Microsoft has made 124,885,597 footprints from all 50 U.S. states available as open data.
Monetizing Open Data versus Informational Transparency
Olivia Harne discusses the pros and cons of monetizing GIS data and map sites.
Moving Past Conceptualizing – Creating the Small “Smart Community”
Olivia Harne discusses how smaller communities can take advantage of mapping tools to make public data more accessible.
New Open Data Program Launched by DigitalGlobe
Focused on providing satellite imagery for large-scaled natural disasters, the Open Data program will provide open and accurate high-resolution satellite imagery and crowdsourced GIS layers.
Find Users of Open GIS Data from Around the World Thanks to the Center for Open Data Enterprise
The Center for Open Data Enterprise is working to improve the quality of open access data worldwide, including GIS data sources.
How To Make a Map From Open Data Using a Spreadsheet
Jonathan Goldman explains in this tutorial how to extract an open data feed from a civic data portal and pull it into Google Sheets, and then map it quickly using Geosheets.