SPA 100: Foundations of Spatial Thinking: Find Data

Access GIS data from the California state government.

Access data from California state government departments.

A portal to California state and city GIS data.

GIS data provided through a corporation that requires the creation of a free account to download data. Some data products are available for purchase.

Access the Guided Search. Unless you're familiar with Census data sets, I recommend that you use Guided Search to browse rather than search data. Otherwise, you might overlook relevant data.

Access older Census data in formats more suitable for GIS software. You'll need to create a free account before you can access the data.

Provides data sets from almost 200 federal agencies. Unless you're familiar with Data.Gov data sets, I recommend you browse available data by using options to the left which limit what displays (Agency, Category, Topic).

Maps, GIS data, and more.

"In print, the Statistical Abstract of the United States is a one-volume, comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Online it is 1400+ individually indexed tables (with attached spreadsheets), both searchable and browsable. Use the Abstract as a convenient volume for statistical reference, and as a guide to sources of more information both in print and on the Web."

A portal of GIS data organized by topic, type, source, and geographic region.

Categorizes over 1000 GIS data resources focusing on international humanitarian work in a Google Drive spreadsheet. Use the tabs at the bottom to view lists of resources.

A portal of data organized by national regions and by state. From the American Library Association's Map and Geospatial Information Round Table (MAGIRT).

A portal to GIS data from federal agencies.

A portal to national and state-level data.

Find freely available data by state, city, agency, subagency, and country by clicking on the appropriate number.

Public and private sources of data.

From the website: "theARDA allows you to interactively explore the highest quality data on American and international religion using online features for generating national profiles, GIS maps, church membership overviews, denominational heritage trees, tables, charts, and other reports. Over 500 surveys and other data collections are available for online preview and virtually all can be downloaded free of charge."

A portal to datasets and repositories by topic. For GIS data, take a look at GIS Datasets to limit results to

"Preview and download datasets curated and held in the University of Arizona Library spatial data repository."

A geoportal of "GIS datasets, web services, and digitized historical maps" from the Big Ten Academic Alliance

Find GIS data from several research institutions. Limit results by subject, year, data type, and format. Not all findable data is freely available online.

GIS data from Harvard University Libraries.