[OSGeo-Edu] TIGER and status on my FOSS GIS course materials

[Gary Watry]

Take a look at http://www.diva-gis.org/Data.htm


    Free GIS data

*Country level data <http://www.diva-gis.org/data/DataServer.htm>* 
(Altitude, Land cover, Population density, Administrative boundaries, 
Gazetteers)

*Global/continental level data*

    Administrative boundaries for: The world
    <http://www.diva-gis.org/data/misc/world_adm0.zip> (also includes
    some rivers and populated places)
    Americas <http://www.diva-gis.org/data/misc/Americas_adm0.zip>
    (North America
    <http://www.diva-gis.org/data/misc/NorthAmerica_adm0.zip> - South
    America <http://www.diva-gis.org/data/misc/SouthAmerica_adm0.zip>),
    Asia <http://www.diva-gis.org/data/misc/Asia_adm0.zip>, Africa
    <http://www.diva-gis.org/data/misc/Africa_adm0.zip>See also (the
    International Taxonomic Database Working Group's world geographical
    scheme <http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/gis/tdwg/index.html> for recording
    plant distributions). 

*Global climate data: * Download these here 
<http://www.diva-gis.org/climate.htm>

*Species occurrence data:*  GBIF <http://www.gbif.org>, HerpNET 
<http://herpnet.org>, MaNIS 
<http://manis.mvz.berkeley.edu/pres/PresentationServlet?action=home>, 
OBIS <http://www.iobis.org/>, ORNIS <http://ornisnet.org>, REMIB 
<http://www.conabio.gob.mx/remib_ingles/doctos/remibnodosdb.html?>, 
SINGER <http://singer.cgiar.org>.

*Near global 90 meter resolution elevation data: *Download here 
<http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/>

*Satellite images*

    High resolution images (LandSat) for nearly all of the world can be
    downloaded here <https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/>. They are in the
    * MrSid* format that can be visualized in DIVA-GIS (note: they are
    in UTM projections, so you will need to project your shapefiles as
    well).  


Charlie Schweik wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 11:15 -0500, Gary Watry wrote:
>   
>> TIGER Data is built off  the U.S. Census data and covers just the U.S.
>>     
>
> Yeah, I was pretty much certain that was the case. I'm just trying to
> think about various international "data inputs" to GIS related to
> social/demographic data and wondered if there was any census data
> standards emerging in the EU or elsewhere or if all countries appear to
> be doing this differently.
>
> Thanks for your answers (Ari and Gary)
>
> Cheers
> Charlie
>
>
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