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 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.

World 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.

Europe 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.

Portugal Catalog Data
GADM

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

World Borders Data
OSM-Boundaries

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

World Borders 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 Service
Geofabrik downloads

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

World OSM Data
INSPIRE Geoportal

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

Europe Catalog Data
Portal do Arqueólogo

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

Portugal Archaeology Data
viSMOS

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

Portugal Data Service
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

Portugal Data Elevation
CIA’s World Factbook

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

World Data Catalog
INE Geodata

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

Portugal Toponymy Data
Natural Earth

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

World Data Catalog
CAOP

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

Portugal Borders Data
NaturalGIS Geocatalog

Portuguese geodata catalog provided by NaturalGIS company.

Portugal Catalog Data