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Spatial Data Links

See also: Cartography Links, GIS Links, GPS Links, Map Links, Remote Sensing Links, Spatial Web Links

See also the SAL Spatial Data Information overview page.

See also: Information on GEO_data and Saldata (SAL data servers and the data we have on hand)

See also a listing of spatial data we have listed by Types of Data

See also Spatial Data Citation links

This page is by no means a comprehensive or current listing. These are simply some of the pages that have been useful in the past. Individuals are encouraged to make use of Google and/or GIS warehouses that list (presumably more current) online spatial data resources (see Web Portals below).

Note that many of the main spatial data layers from these sources have already been downloaded and are stored on the Huxley Servers (J:\GEO\GEO_data) - so you might check there first...

Main Groupings of Data listed below:

City of Bellingham

Whatcom County

Other Washington Counties

Washington State

Other States

USA

Census Data

USGS

DEMs & Bathymetry Data

Global

Earthquake

Geology

Soils

Canada

Historical /Archival Data

Remote Sensing (Satellite) Data

Web Portals for Spatial Data

City of Bellingham

     City of Bellingham

            GIS (Planning Department, Public Works) - http://www.cob.org/gis/index.htm

            Parks & Recreation - http://www.cob.org/parks/

    COB GIS Data (shapefiles in Self-extracting zip files) - ftp://ftp.cob.org/eng/gis/

    COB Air Photos (color 1997) - ftp://ftp.cob.org/plan/1997airphotos/

    USGS Air Photos (BW 1998) - ftp://ftp.cob.org/plan/1998airphotos/

    Misc COB Maps (Zoning, Neighborhoods, Shoreline, Lake Whatcom, etc.) - http://www.cob.org/gis/maps/index.htm

     Misc Urban Growth Links compiled for the EGEO-314 class

Whatcom County Web Resources

      Whatcom County

            Planning Department GIS - http://www.co.whatcom.wa.us/pds/planning/gis/

                    Maps: http://www.co.whatcom.wa.us/pds/planning/gis/gismaps/gismaps.jsp 

                    WC METADATA - http://wagic.wa.gov/Metadata/Whatcom/wagicwha.htm

            Assessor - http://www.co.whatcom.wa.us/assessor/

                Parcel Lookup - http://www.co.whatcom.wa.us/cgibin/db2www/assessor/search/RPSearch.ndt/select?tr=

            Public Works:  Water Resources - http://www.co.whatcom.wa.us/publicworks/water/

                Lake Whatcom - http://www.co.whatcom.wa.us/publicworks/water/lakewhatcom.jsp

                Lake Whatcom Mgmt Program - http://www.lakewhatcom.wsu.edu/

Other Counties

    Skagit County GIS - http://www.skagitcounty.net/Common/asp/default.asp?d=GIS&c=General&p=main.htm

            Mt. Vernon GIS - http://www.ci.mount-vernon.wa.us/page.asp_Q_navigationid_E_228

    San Juan County GIS - http://www.co.san-juan.wa.us/gis/gislib.asp

    Snohomish County GIS - http://www1.co.snohomish.wa.us/Departments/PDS/Divisions/LR_Planning/Information/Maps/mapsgisdata.htm

    Pierce County GIS - http://triton.co.pierce.wa.us/MapYourWay/index.cfm

    King County GIS - http://www.metrokc.gov/ddes/gis/

    Thurston County GIS - http://www.geodata.org/online.html

Washington State GIS Agencies/Providers

    Washington State Geospatial Data Archive (WAGDA) - http://wagda.lib.washington.edu/

    Washington Geographic Information Council (WAGIC) - http://wagic.wa.gov/

     UW Raster Data (DEMs, DRGs, DOQs, etc) - http://rocky.ess.washington.edu/data/raster/

     UW Vector Data - http://duff.geology.washington.edu/data/vector/

    Department of Ecology   

        GIS - http://www.ecy.wa.gov/services/gis/index.html

        DOE Shoreline Photos (oblique) - http://apps.ecy.wa.gov/shorephotos/index.html

        Coastal Atals - http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/SMA/atlas_home.html

    Department of Fish and Wildlife

        MPA Data - http://wdfw.wa.gov/fish/mpa/puget_sound/gis_data.htm

        Interactive Mapping - http://wdfw.wa.gov/mapping/

        PHS Data/Maps - http://wdfw.wa.gov/hab/phspage.htm

    Department of Health GIS - http://ww4.doh.wa.gov/gis/default.htm

    Department of Natural Resources GIS - http://www3.wadnr.gov/dnrapp6/dataweb/dmmatrix.html

    Department of Revenue GIS - http://gis.dor.wa.gov/taxratefinder/taxfinder.htm?taxtype=s

    Department of Transportation GIS - http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/geodatacatalog/default.htm 

            (roads, railroads, ferrys, shoreline, cities, etc)

    Office of Financial Management GIS - http://www.ofm.wa.gov/geographic/default.asp

Other States and Areas

Oregon Geospatial Data Clearinghouse

Oregon Dept. of Forestry GIS

Idaho Dept. of Water Resources GIS/RS

Alaska State Geo-Spatial Data Clearinghouse

Greater Yellowstone Area Data Clearinghouse

Regional Ecosystem Office (NW Forestry)  GIS

US Forest Service
  Gifford Pinchot National Forest

            Okanogan National Forest GIS

Interior Columbia Basin Management Project (ICBEMP) GIS Data       

State Data Centers and Clearinghouses

    http://gisdata.blogspot.com/2006/10/updated-state-data-centers-and.html

Bureau of Land Management GIS - http://www.blm.gov/gis

 

Environmental Protection Agency

    GIS - http://www.epa.gov/epahome/gis.htm

    EnviroFacts Data Warehouse - http://www.epa.gov/enviro/

    MRLC (Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics) - http://www.epa.gov/mrlc/

    BASINS (GIS tools) - http://www.epa.gov/ost/BASINS/

 

NASA (National Aeronautics & Space Administratrion)

    EOS (Earth Observing System)

    Landsat 7

 

National Atlas

 

NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration)

    Coastal Data & Synthesis System

    GLOBE (Global Land One-km Base Elevation) Project

    National Climate Data Center

    National Geophysical Data Center

    National Weather Service

    Topographic Images

   National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) 3 Arc-Second Coastal Relief Model (land-water)

            http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coastal/ 

 

    Shoreline Data Explorer - http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/newsys_ims/shoreline/index

    Free RNC (Raster Nautical Charts) - http://www.freeboatingcharts.com/ 

        (these are scanned NOAA charts, stored as .KAP files that work with ArcGIS)

 

US Army Corps of Engineers  Geospatial Data Clearinghouse

 

USDA / NRCS - http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/

    Common Land Units

    Hydrologic Units

    DRG's (County Mosaics of USGS Topo Quads)

    NED (National Elevation Data) - 10m & 30m

    Ortho Air Photo Imagery (USGS DOQ's and NAIP 2006)

    Soil Survey

    Climate data

 

US Fish and Wildlife

    GIS  

    NWI

 

US Forest Service
    Gifford Pinchot National Forest  GIS

              Mt Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest  GIS

 

USGS (see notes and links below)

Census Data

    Census  (see also Census Data Spatial Web sites)

       TIGER Map Server - http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl

       Boundary Files - http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/index.html

       Maps - http://www.census.gov/geo/www/maps/

   National Historical GIS (Historical Census Data) - http://www.nhgis.org/

    Zip-code level Census data - http://www.zipskinny.com/ 

USGS Data (see USGS Help)

   Global Datasets

   Visible Earth  ( Pacific NW )

   Seamless Data (including DRG, National Atlas, LandSat, NED, NLCD, Orthophotos & SRTM Data)

                http://seamless.usgs.gov/

    Libre Map Project - DRG's and Maps by State

            http://libremap.org/data/

    USGS Global Datasets

            http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/globalgis/datasets.htm

   Washington DEMs (UW)

            http://rocky.ess.washington.edu/data/raster/tenmeter/byquad/index.html

        See also DEM Data below...

        See also Remote Sensing (Satellite) Data

   USDA / NRCS - http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/

        DRG's (County Mosaics of USGS Topo Quads)

        Ortho Air Photo Imagery (USGS DOQ's and NAIP 2006)

DEM / Elevation Data available on the Web

The best source for Washington DEM's is the University of Washington site:

            http://rocky.ess.washington.edu/data/raster/

DEM's are also available from:

    Washington State Geospatial Data

            http://wagda.lib.washington.edu

    GeoCommunity Data Depot

            http://data.geocomm.com/catalog/

    USGS 1:250,000 and 7.5 Minute Series -           

               http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html

    USDA / NRCS - http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/

        NED (National Elevation Data) - 10m & 30m

    Puget Sound LIDAR Consortium - http://pugetsoundlidar.ess.washington.edu/index.htm

Global DEMs

    NOAA GLOBE (30" - 0.5 minute - approx. 1 Km)

            http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/topo/globe.shtml

    GTOPO30 (Global 30" Seconds - 0.5 minute - approx. 1 km)

            http://edc.usgs.gov/products/elevation/gtopo30/gtopo30.html

            http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/gtopo30/gtopo30.html

    SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission - 30" seconds - 0.5 minute - approx 1 km)

                (same resolution as GTOPO30 but considered to be more accurate - info)

            http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/

    SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission - 1 arc second for USA, 3 arc seconds elsewhere)

                (approx 30 m. and 90 m. respectively)

            http://edc.usgs.gov/srtm/data/obtainingdata.html

            http://www.dgadv.com/srtm30/

    SRTM30 Plus (SRTM Land data + Ocean Bathymetry)

            http://topex.ucsd.edu/WWW_html/srtm30_plus.html

    CleanTopo2 (a cartographically 'cleaned' up version of the SRTM30 dataset)

            http://www.shadedrelief.com/cleantopo2/index.html

    ETOPO2v2 (2 Minute Gridded Global Relief Data - June 2006) - DEM + Bathymetry (Oceans + Lakes)

            http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/fliers/01mgg04.html

    DEM Data Catalog

            http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/ded.html

Bathymetry Data

     NOAA

            http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/relief.html

     USGS WA-Or

            http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of00-448/

     Puget Sound Elevation/Bathymetry (30 m)

            http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of00-448/ 

     National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) 3 Arc-Second Coastal Relief Model (land-water)

            http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coastal/ 

     See also NOAA data above for NOAA Charts (RNC's)

Earthquake Data

    USGS Earthquake Hazards Program

            http://earthquake.usgs.gov/

    USGS National Earthquake Information Center

            http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/

    UW ESS (Earth & Space Sciences) PNSN-Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network (Earthquake data)

    Worldwide Earthquake Locator

            http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/quakes/quakes.html

Geology Data

    WA DNR

            http://fortress.wa.gov/dnr/app1/DataWeb/dmmatrix.html#Geology

    USGS Geologic Map Database

            http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/

Soils Data

    USDA NRCS (National Resources Conservation Service)

            http://www.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/soils_data.html

    NRCS Soils

            http://soils.usda.gov/

    SSURGO (Soil Survey Geographic Database)

            http://www.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/ssur_data.html

Canadian Web Resources

     GeoGratis  (Natural Resources Canada)

            (Including 1996 Population, LANDSAT, AVHRR Land Cover, Land Use, Topos, etc)

            http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/frames.html

     GeoBase (DEMs, Roads, Boundaries, etc.)

             http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/index.html

     Natural Resources Canada

             http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/geocan/index_e.html

     Protected Area Survey

             ftp://ftp.gis.luco.gov.bc.ca/pub/pas/

     BC Environment GIS data ftp site

            http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/gis/arcftp.html

     LandData BC

            http://www.landdata.gov.bc.ca/

     Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management

            http://www.gov.bc.ca/srm/

            http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/gis/arcftp.html

     Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection

            http://www.gov.bc.ca/wlap/

      BC Watershed Atlas

          http://wlapwww.gov.bc.ca/car/env_stewardship/fisheries/watershed_atlas/wshd_atlas.html

     Geological Survey of Canada

            http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/gsc/index_e.html

     GeoConnections

            http://geoconnections.org/english/index.html

     Geography Network Canada

            http://www.geographynetwork.ca/

     Integrated Land Mgmt Bureau - http://ilmbwww.gov.bc.ca/bmgs/ecommerce-intro.html

Canadian Maps & Data

     The Atlas of Canada

            http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/index.html

     BC Map Place

          http://www.em.gov.bc.ca/Mining/Geolsurv/MapPlace/default.htm

     Canada Info Maps

          http://www.enpmusic.com/craig/canada/images&downloads/downloads_maps.html

Historical / Archival Data

     T-Sheets (Topographical Survey Charts from the 1800's of the Puget Sound area)

                      note that most of these are available in the Huxley Map Library & on J\GEO as well 

            http://riverhistory.ess.washington.edu/tsheets/framedex.htm

     Puget Sound River History Project (1850-90 GLO land survey maps, 1930-40 Air Photos, T-Sheets)

             http://riverhistory.ess.washington.edu/

See also Remote Sensing (Satellite) Data

World Atlas.com

 

United Nations

    Statistics Division

    Division of Early Warning and Assessment

    United Nations Environment Programme

        Arctic Environmental Atlas

        Greenhouse Gasses

Misc. Web Sources of Data

(Clearinghouses, Geo-Portals, Data Distributors, etc.)

        Geospatial One-Stop (Federal Gov't, part of http://firstgov.gov)

            http://www.geodata.gov/gos

        GIS DataDepot

            http://www.gisdatadepot.com

        GeoCommunity Data

            http://data.geocomm.com/catalog/

        Geography Network

            http://www.geographynetwork.com/

        Directions Data Center

            http://www.directionsmag.com/datacenter/

        Washington Geographic Information Council (WAGIC)

            http://www.wa.gov/gic/

        Cornell Digital Data

            http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu/geoid/metadata.html

        InfoRain (NW North America GIS datasets)

            http://www.inforain.org/dataresources/datalayers.asp

        UNEP (United Nations Environmental Program)

            http://www.grida.no/db/gis/prod/html/toc.htm

        CEISIN (Center for International Earth Science Information Network - Columbia University)

            http://www.ciesin.org/sub_guide.html

        TerraFly - Air Photos

        Terraserver (MSN) - Air Photos & Topo maps

Links to more GIS Data Sources

        UC Berkley: Global GIS Resources

            http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/GIS/gisdatag.html

        UC Berkley: USA State and Local GIS Resources

            http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/GIS/gisdatas.html

        UA CAST - USA Data

            http://libinfo.uark.edu/GIS/us.asp

        UA CAST - International Data

            http://libinfo.uark.edu/gis/international.asp

        UA CAST - Commercial ($) Data

            http://libinfo.uark.edu/gis/commercial.asp

Spatial Data Resources

        Geospatial (GIS) Data Search (Google) -     

            http://google.com/coop/cse?cx=016479057994891489655%3Awzse8ku0bcc

        Spatial Data Converters (between different data formats)

            http://www.gisuser.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=105&func=selectcat&cat=4

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