Data sets tagged with "geodata"

Wikipedia Articles

Did you ever want to correlate Wikipedia articles with geographic locations? You know, so you can figure out whose castle that is on the hill you just drove past, know whether there’s a natural or supernatural phenomenon nearby, or find a tiny museum in your neighborhood? With the Wikipedia Articles API, you can swiftly sift through ~300k Wikipedia entries to find ...
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Business Places by Locationary

The Business Places by Locationary API delivers quality business information based on your geographically defined query. Business information for queries may include business name, address, business type, country, city, state, postal code, and geometry type. Locationary provides an impressive volume of business information, that is also rich with precise detail and ...
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Foursquare Places

The Foursquare Places API delivers uniquely rich information about venues, worldwide. Where many geolocation providers will deliver venue categories described across broad types: bars, restaurants, gyms, colleges, grocery stores, etc, Foursquare data is unique in the venue type depth provided: for example, bars are further classified as sports, gay, dive, wine, whiskey, ...
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American Community Survey (Topline)

The 2009 American Community Survey (ACS) Topline API provides basic demographic data based on your geographically defined query. This geo to ACS data API searches by lat/long coordinates to retrieve ACS data about a geographical area, including education levels, household income, race statistics, household size, gender and age groups. This API is part of the Infochimps ...
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Geonames Places

The Geonames Places API locates all places within a specified area. Places are any geographic points that can be named. In other words, within a defined area, any geographic point that is “named” will appear as a match for your custom query. The Geonames API database includes over 10 million geographical names and 7.5 million unique features. The combined volume ...
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Zillow Neighborhoods

Zillow Neighborhoods retrieves geo data pertaining to neighborhoods within defined geometric parameters. Lat/long coordinates may return details for large areas like cities or towns, which can be dissected further into specific neighborhoods. Neighborhood Boundaries provides an important element of specificity for geo queries: Neighborhood distinctions are a critical ...
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Global Daily Weather Data from the National Climate Data Center (NCDC)

Weather data provided by the National Climate Data Center (NCDC). The downloads available include Global Surface Summary of Day (GSOD) data provided by the NOAA division, National Climate Data Center. Explore the download for weather data, temperature data and more. You can fetch your own copy with wget -r -l3 —no-clobber —no-parent —no-verbose -a ...
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Poverty Data Sets General Information

A collection of subnational, spatially explicit, poverty data sets. These are available for selected proxy measures of poverty at global and national scales. The global data are of varying resolution, but primarily coarse; the national data sets are of considerable higher resolution. The Global data sets include two proxy poverty measurements: Malnutrition (underweight ...
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US Census Bureau TIGER data

The US government’s ‘Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing’ system, usually referred to as TIGER, is based on an extensive database of US geographic information. It is county-level data that documents physical features like roads and rivers, as well as some administrative features such as Congressional districts. Data can be downloaded for ...
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Austin Daily Weather (extracted from National Climate Data Center (NCDC) Data)

About This is an extract from the “Global Daily Weather Data from the National Climate Data Center (NCDC)” dataset for just austin. Contents There are several files in the packages: austin_daily_weather.tsv — daily weather from the operational weather station closest to Austin (Mueller Airport 1948-1999, Bergstrom for the last part of 1999, and Camp Mabry ...
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Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Elevation Data

Description From <http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/>: > … The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) obtained elevation data on a near-global scale to generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of Earth. > > … > SRTM is an international project spearheaded by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National ...
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Geograph British Isles

About The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland, and you can be part of it. License Most photos seem to be CC-BY by default. <http://www.geograph.org.uk/faq.php#opensource> Download No bulk download facility.
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National Street Gazetteer

Description From the [about page](http://www.thensg.org.uk/iansg/link.htm?id=100): > The National Street Gazetteer (NSG) is the definitive reference system used in the notification process and the coordination of street works. Under legislation, each local highway authority in England and Wales is required to create and maintain its own Local Street Gazetteer (LSG) ...
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GeoNames

The geonames.org geographical database is available for download free of charge under a creative commons attribution license. It contains over eight million geographical names and consists of 6.3 million unique features whereof 2.2 million populated places and 1.8 million alternate names. All features are categorized into one out of nine feature classes and further ...
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Landsat Data

Description Landsat ETM+, TM, and MSS data are available from USGS for free. [Base data page](http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/where.html) leads on to: <http://eros.usgs.gov/products/satellite/landsat_ortho.html> Not entirely clear from that page you can actually get bulk downloads from however bulk of landsat data is on [geotorrent](http://geotorrent.org/) ...
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OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is aimed at creating and providing free geodata such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive or unexpected ways. The planet.osm file described at the download link above ...
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GeoCommons

Description Geocommons is a website for uploading and visualizing datasets with a geospatial component (so they can be plotted on a map). Focus is on visualization rather than the data with tagline: “Explore, Create and Share Intelligent Maps and Geographic Data” Openness: PASS- License: all datasets licensed under cc by-sa 3.0 Access: data provided in kml ...
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The CIESIN World Data Center

Description The CIESIN World Data Center is a portal, hosted by NASA’s Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), which provides access to a wide range of global data, associated documentation, and visualization and analysis tools, and to the community of experts on global data. Contains a very large number of different datasets many of which are open. ...
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