REL 260: Redrawing the Map - older version (Larsen): 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.

Initiative of the California Digital Library. Provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 200 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California

Project of the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR) at the University of California, Riverside. Contains 486,901 issues comprising 5,380,615 pages and 36,854,787 articles.

Access the Guided Search doorway to the American FactFinder. 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 access to ~100,000 open geospatial data assets

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 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.

National and international data on religion.

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.