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GIS & Geospatial Technologies: GIS Data

This guide provides GIS tutorials, data, books, course-specific GIS guides and other geospatial related information that might be of interest.

Browse Library geospatial data holdings: "The X drive" 

UC San Diego affiliate can browse the Library's geospatial data holdings that are hosted on the X drive in our Data & GIS Lab. You must be connected to UCSD VPN in order to browse. This is for BROWSING ONLY. You CANNOT DOWNLOAD any files. You must visit the Lab to access files until we are able to publish the data into an online portal (currently under development)

The data is organized geographically, roughly by continent, with topical data arrangement inside each folder.

Remember, if you are looking for data on a smaller area of geography, be sure to check the folder with the larger geography first.  An example would be if you are looking for data for only one of the states in the United States, you would want to look in the United States Data folder as well as the North America data folder.

Browse the GIS data holdings

 

GIS Data Links

To facilitate your search, we have sorted our GIS data links into the following categories:

Online GIS Data Sites (a select few)

Below are some of the top resources for finding good GIS data online. If you find a good source that isn't on one of our lists, please contact us and we'll be sure to evaluate it and add it on so others can benefit from your work!