Global Geospatial Data Sources

Geojson maps of the world

• https://geojson-maps.ash.ms/

Open Street Map, the most detailed free geographic features anywhere, including streets, landuse, buildings, railways, roads, natural features (such as waterbodies and parks)

• Planet.osm

  • https://planet.openstreetmap.org/

• BBBike, provides downloads for OSM data

  • https://download.bbbike.org/osm/bbbike/

• Geofabrik, provides downloads for OSM data

  • https://download.geofabrik.de/asia.html

Natural Earth Data

• http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/
• http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/110m-physical-vectors/

Geodata at Tufts

• https://geodata.tufts.edu/

ESRI Open Data

• https://hub.arcgis.com/pages/open-data

Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (sedac)

• http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/

Thematic Mapping

• http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/
• http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php