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- Africa Data Dissemination Service - (Africa )
- Public access to country specific data collected by the Famine Early Warning System project since the mid 1980s for numerous African countries.
- African Geospatial Data Sets - (Africa )
- Free data from EMIS partners and development & mapping agencies from the countries in which they operate, plus continental data from other sources with a wide range of topics (i.e. ecoregions, admin-boundaries, geology, DEMs, biodiversity).
- AntSDI – The Antarctic Spatial Data Infrastructure - (Antarctica)
- The SC-AGI (Standing Committee on Antarctic geographic information) member countries portal for Antarctica, the coldest, driest and most inaccessible continents on the Earth yet so vital in global climate change research. The SC-AGI aims to deliver a range of products for scientific research; these products include the SCAR (Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research) Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica, the Antarctic Digital Database (British Antarctic Survey), the SCAR King George Island GIS Database, and the SCAR Map Catalogue (hosted by the Australian Antarctic Data Centre).
- Australian Spatial Data Directory (ASDD) - (Australia )
- The Australian Spatial Data Directory is a metadata search interface to discover geospatial data descriptions in Australia. The ASDD gateway is maintained by Geoscience Australia on behalf of ANZLIC - the Spatial Information Council, as part of its broader Australian Government responsibility for the ASDI. Individual ASDD nodes are implemented by State/Territory jurisdictions, Australian Government agencies, and commercial organisations. The site displays node status, with links.
Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, CANBERRA ACT 2601, Australia
- CHILE, Instituto Geografico Militar - (Chile)
- The military Institute of Geography uses an Intergraph platform for digitization the data compiled is digital cartography compiled from original printed maps covering Chile political boundaries, elevation, utilities, transport models, scanned charts.
- Consejo Superior Geografico – Infraestructura de Datos Espciales de Espana (IDEE) - (Spain)
- The Spatial Data Infrastructure of Spain (Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales de España, IDEE) is an initiative to integrate data, metadata and geographical information produced in Spain into Internet. The website provides access to the Main Node of Distribution and Screening of Data and Geographical Services in Spain, amd other nodes & websites of official geographical information under the theme of nature.
Ministerio de Fomento
28003, Madrid, Spain
- Conservation GeoPortal - (Global)
- The Conservation Geoportal is a collaborative effort by and for the conservation community to facilitate the discovery and publishing of GIS data and maps, to support conservation decisionmaking and education. It is primarily a data catalog, intended to provide a comprehensive listing of GIS data and map services relevant to biodiversity conservation via metadata.
Conservationcommons.org,
555 René-Lévesque Boulevard West, Suite 500
Montréal, Québec - Canada, H2Z 1B1 - EuroGeoSurveys - (Europe )
- EuroGeoSurveys is the Association of the European Geological Surveys, the portal contains metadata and data in numerous geosciences EU applications, including EU-SEASED seabed, geological and hydrogeological map of Europe, Geochemical Atlas of EU, mineral resources and the ACP minig database, and SIGAfrique Information System.
EuroGeoSurveys
Rue du Luxembourg 3
1000 Brussels
Belgium - General Command of Mapping - (Turkey)
- GCM produces a variety of topographic map products at scales 1:25.000 and smaller, aerial and orthophotographs. It is in the process of converting them to digital form. It is expected that GCM will be turned into a civil national mapping agency. GCM is the Turkish member of Eurogeographics.
- Geography Network Canada - (Canada )
- GNC is an online resource for finding and sharing geographic content, including maps and data, from many leading Canadian providers (includes atmospheric data, scanned maps, base maps, landcover).
- GeoNorge – National Geoportal - (Norway)
- Emailed for info.
- Geoportail – Le portail des territoires et des citoyens. - (France)
- Geoportal was Developed by the state-funded National Geographic Institute (IGN), it will let users switch from aerial views of a site, to detailed maps, charts and geological data, with a new 3D tool. It gives access to high-resolution aerial imagery of its entire territory and it offered more detail of its territory than Google Earth.
Institut Géographique
National - 136 bis, rue de Grenelle - 75700 Paris 07 SP - France
- GEOportal & Clearinghouse - (Global)
- The GEOportal provides an entry point to access Earth Observation information and services. It will connect to a system of existing portals, addressing the GEO Societal Benefit Areas globally and provide national to regional perspective to achieve synergy and leverage. Derived from ESA\'s Earth Observation Community Portal www.eoportal.org (based at the European Space Agency/ESRIN in Frascati, Italy). this proposed contribution to the GEOportal will put the accent on remote sensing, geospatial-static and in-situ data, information and services. This is a new portal and still under construction in parts. Has a Google Earth feel, and you can create a ‘My-GEOportal page’.
- GeoPortal.Bund - (Germany)
- GDI-DE GeoPortal.Bund has been designed to act as an interpreter and a go-between between the users and the suppliers of geo-spatial data, geo-spatial information and services. A significant component of this is, aside from the access to geo-spatial data, the preparation for interdependant departments, for example the procurement of services, through to specialist user applications and senarios (e.g. Co-ordinates transformation, Data visualisation and preparation etc).
It allows access to scattered data from one or multiple suppliers and connects data and service supplier.Through Online access to the scattered data of the respectve suppliers, a high level of topicality can be assured. - Geoportal.gov.pl - Aktualnosci - (Poland)
- Geoportal.gov.pl initiated by the Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography in Poland is aimed at providing access to national geodetic and cartographic resources. The main target was to provide georeferential data such as: orthophoto, roads, building, address points, parcels, and catalog services delivering the description of data stored by the service, it is also set to digitise and centralise all land-related data and information by 2009.
- GOS – U.S Geospatial One Stop - (Usa )
- First released in 2003, the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) geoportal was developed as part of a U.S. e-government initiative. Unlike the NSDI Clearinghouse Network, GOS was built around a centralized metadata catalogue database, with an architecture that links users to data providers through a Web-based geoportal.
- GuateUVG - Guatemala Clearinghouse Universidad del Valle - (Guatemala)
- Geoportal for Gutemala.
- Guide to Mostly On-Line and Mostly Free U.S. Geospatial and Attribute Data - (Usa )
- Guide to U.S geospatial data sources and links, by State and Local Aggregations, and National links.
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701 - Hungarian Geo-Portal - (Hungary)
- The Geo-Portal has been set up by the Geological Institute of Hungary with the objective of having a specific site for presenting databases, services and projects for the geoscientific profession.
H-1143 Budapest, Stefaria ut 14. 1443 pf. 106 - India NSDI - (India)
- India national infrastructure for the availability of and access to organised spatial data.
Sent an email but it failed as it could not connect to server - Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales de la República de Cuba (IDERC) - (Cuba)
- The National Geospatial Portal for the Republic of Cuba.
The National Geospatial Portal or GeoPortal is an entry point to the national geographic information available in the Spatial Data Infrastructure of the Republic of Cuba (IDERC).
The fundamental data provided thus far are: Distribution Policy Management, Hydrography, points villages and urban settlements, elevations, vials and Geographical Names.
The first services are GeoPortal Geographical Dictionary, accessible through interactive maps and Population Statistical Yearbook of Cuba published in 2003. - INSPIRE Geoportal - (Europe )
- The EU Geo-Portal is Europe\'s Internet access point to a collection of spatial data under the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) initiative. The Geo-Portal is established on standards and specifications from European, International and industry consensus building processes (ISO, CEN, OGC, W3C). The European Commission maintains this website to enhance public access to geographic information.
ISpra VA, Italy - Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) - (Brazil)
- The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics is the main provider of data and information in the country and it fulfills the demands of several different segments of civil society, as well of other governmental institutions at federal, state and municipal level.
- Israeli National Geospatial Portal - (Israel)
- JAPAN - Geographical Survey Institute - (Japan )
- Metadata Clearing house node of the Geographical Survey Institute (GSI) Japan – the only national organisation for survey & mapping, and part of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport established in 1869. The GSI conducts basic survey & instructs related organizations to clarify the conditions of land in Japan, providing survey results of land improvement.
- JUPEM Geoportal - (Malaysia)
- The Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia (JUPEM) deliver its digital geospatial products via the Internet or through a sophisticated one-stop-counter service for the efficient dissemination of all its geospatial products to the public, called JUPEM geoportal.
Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia,
Wisma JUPEM, Jalan Semarak,
50578 Kuala Lumpur – its tagged already in GE - MIRAGE - Map Image Rendering DAtabase for GEoscience - (Canada )
- The Map Image Rendering Database for Geoscience (MIRAGE) Portal for the efficient and effective discovery, access and management of Canada\'s geoscience data & information, and to develop plans for the Cooperative Geological Mapping Strategies (CGMS).
- NASA’s Global Change Master Directory - (Global)
- The mission of the Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) is to enable the scientific community to discover and access Earth science data and services through distributed, integrated information technology systems. The GCMD offers descriptions of Earth science data sets using a specified set of information - known as the Directory Interchange Format (DIF) content metadata. There are 53 portal collaborators, and it offers extensive metadata about global change and Earth science related data.
- Portale Cartografico Nazionale (Italy) – Italian National Cartographic Portal - (Italy)
- Portale Cartografico Nazionale serves as the Italian national portal, allowing users to visualise (WMS interface) and use Italian national interior base map products made available on the site.
- Royal Thai Survey Department Clearinghouse - (Thailand )
- Royal Thai Survey Department serves as only national mapping agency of Thailand and this portal contains all information that relates to the purchase of legal mapping in Thailand.
- The National geoscience Database of Iran - (Iran)
- Considering the key role of the earth science in economic development, it is absolutely essential to collect and present the geoscience data of Iran. National Geoscience Database of Iran opens its way through the collection, systematization and organization of geoscience data in an easy and instant way to supply needs of managers, administrators, domestic and foreign investors and industrial, economical and political sectors. Focus is on mining, mineral, marine and geological data.
- The Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia - (Slovenia)
- The SMA of the Republic of Slovenia is a body within the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning. The competence of the Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia comprises the assignments of the national land survey service, which include the creation, administration and updating of databases pertaining to the basic geodetic system, real estate, state border, spatial units and house numbers, and to the topographic and cartographic system.
http://www.gu.gov.si/en/
The SMA also offers the Central Evidence of Spatial Metadata (CESM) portal, which includes the most complete list of the existing digital spatial data in the Republic of Slovenia. - The US National Spatial Data Clearinghouse - (Usa )
- The U.S. Federal Geospatial Data Committee (FGDC) coordinated development of the NSDI Clearinghouse Network, the first large geoportal. The Clearinghouse is a virtual collection of digital spatial data distributed over many servers in the United States and abroad. The primary intention of the Clearinghouse is to provide discovery services for digital data allowing users to evaluate its quality through metadata and node status stats.
Federal Geographic Data Committee
590 National Center, Reston, Virginia 20192 - UK GIgateway - (Uk )
- The data included on the GIgateway node is for the United Kingdom and includes a variety of geospatial data, from imagery to local government datasets. The node is hosted by EDINA, University of Edinburgh
- UNGIWG – Data Portals - (Global)
- List of geoportals part of the UN-GI, many using GeoNetwork opensource for easy share of geographically referenced thematic information between UN Agencies, NGO\'s and other institutions.
94, rue de Montbrillant, 1202 Genève, Switzerland - UNSDI-NCO GeoNetwork portal – Netherlands - (Netherlands)
- National UNSDI portal for the Netherlands.
UNSDI-NCO - Uruguay - National Clearinghouse of Geographical Data - (Uruguay)
- The National Clearinghouse of Geographical Data of Uruguay (CNDG) is formed by Public and Private Organizations to centralize all geo-referenced data available in Uruguay.
