[WEB4LIB] GIS Data sets on the Web

[Steve Morris]

Hello,

A couple good starting directories are:

Guide to GIS Resources on the Internet
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/~smorris/gisnet.html

Guide To Mostly On-line And Mostly Free U.S. Geospatial and Attribute Data
http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/hunt/index.html

National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
http://130.11.52.184/FGDCgateway.html

USGS Global Land Information System
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/webglis


Some  useful, free, downloadable data resources can be found at:

Univ. of Virginia Geographic Information Center (for Virginia data--don't
know of good sources specifically for DC and MD)
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/gic/catalog/

USGS Geodata download site (DEMs, DLGs, LULC)
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html

EPA Basins  (variety of data in shapefile format)
http://www.epa.gov/docs/ostwater/BASINS/

LULC in Arc/Info format
ftp://ftp.epa.gov/pub/EPAGIRAS/

GNIS
http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisftp.html

National Highway System data (Arc/Info)
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/hep10/data/data.html

National Transportation Atlas Database (convertible to MIF, shapefile)
http://www.bts.gov/gis/ntatlas/

TIGER 95 in Shapefile format
http://www.esri.com/data/online/index.html

Census Bureau Cartographic Boundary Files 
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/files.html

UNEP/GRID (variety of global data sets--mostly Arc/Info format)
http://www.grida.no/cgiar/htmls/data.htm


The NCSU  Libraries GIS pages provide extensive documentation on accessing
and using these & other data sets.  See:
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/gis/


Best regards,

Steve


At 10:04 AM 12/16/98 -0800, Alicia Abramson wrote:
>We're putting together a PC for Geographic Information Systems use and I am
>interested in learning about any Web sources for GIS data (compatible with
>ArcView, Integraph Geomedia and IDRISI).  
>
>At this point we don't have a particular subject area focus, so suggestions
>for data in any are welcome.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
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Spatial & Numeric Data Services Librarian
North Carolina State University Libraries
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