A-GISpicks

  • infoWhy?
    This is a curated list of useful websites for our GIS and mapping projects. Started as a simple shortlist but then sharing it with the world seemed a good idea...
  • Who?

    Project developed by Alfobre.com

    Alfobre (portuguese for seedbed) is a collective devoted to the creation and development of projects, strategies and products in the Heritage field.

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World Catalog Data
World Bank Open Data

Provides a listing of available World Bank datasets, including databases, pre-formatted tables, reports, and other resources.

World Catalog Data
Free GIS Data

Categorised list of links to over 500 sites providing freely available geographic datasets.

Europe Catalog Data
data.europa.eu

The single point of access to open data from European countries, EU institutions, agencies and bodies and other European countries.

Portugal Catalog Data
dados.gov.pt

The central catalog of open data in Portugal, aggregates and hosts open data from Public Administration.

Portugal Catalog Data
RNDG

The portuguese National Geographic Data Registry is a catalog of geodata produced or maintained by portuguese public authorities.

World Borders Data
GADM

The Global Administrative Areas provides access to administrative areas of all countries, at all levels of sub-division.

World Borders OSM Service
OSM-Boundaries

Easily extract boundaries such as country borders, state borders, and equivalents from the OpenStreetMap databases.

World OSM Service
overpass turbo

A web-based data filtering or data mining tool for OpenStreetMap.

World OSM Service
MyOSMatic

Generates maps using OpenStreetMap data. The generated maps are available in PNG, PDF and SVG formats and are ready to be printed.

World OSM Data
Geofabrik

This server has data extracts from the OpenStreetMap project which are normally updated every day.

Europe Catalog Data
INSPIRE Geoportal

The central European access point to the data provided by EU Member States and EFTA countries under the INSPIRE Directive.

Portugal Archaeology Data
Portal do Arqueólogo

Georeferenced archaeological heritage registered in the portuguese national archaeological information and management system.

Portugal Data Service
viSMOS

WebGIS of the Land Occupation Monitoring System (SMOS), a portuguese national administration project.

Portugal Data Elevation
DEM data for Portugal

Digital Elevation Models of mainland Portugal, obtained by satellite missions: SRTM, ASTER, ALOS-Prism and TerraSAR-X.

Portugal Data Elevation
Altimetria Portugal 25m

25m Digital Surface Model (DSM) for Portugal

World Data Catalog
CIA’s World Factbook

Basic intelligence (e.g. history, government, economy, geography, transportation, military, etc.) for 265 world entities.

Portugal Toponymy Data
INE Geodata

Geospatial data shared by the portuguese National Statistics Institute: Addresses, Reference Parcels, Toponymy.

World Data Catalog
Natural Earth

Free vector and raster map data at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110m scales.

Portugal Borders Data
CAOP

The Official Administrative Charter of Portugal (Carta Administrativa Oficial de Portugal).

Portugal Catalog Data
NaturalGIS Geocatalog

Portuguese geodata catalog provided by NaturalGIS company.

OSM World Data
Daylight

A complete distribution of global, open map data that’s freely available with support from community and professional mapmakers.

OSM World Data
OSM Data

Data Derived from OpenStreetMap for Download. Raw OpenStreetMap data is hard to use. On this web site you'll find some of that data pre-processed and formatted for easier use.

Catalog World Data
QMS

QuickMapServices (QMS) is an open catalog of geospatial services and a way to add them easily to desktop GIS software.

Service World OSM
taginfo

Taginfo helps you by showing statistics about which tags are actually in the OpenStreetMap database.