Introduction to Geodata

Open Data Examples

opengeodata.nrw.de

Data portal of NRW. Has lots of thematic data in vector or raster format.

• city planning
• environmental data
• administrative boundaries
• land use

GADM - Global administrative areas

• Standardised administrative bondaries
• Example Germany:
  • Level 1: countries
  • Level 2: states
  • Level 3: municipalities

OpenStreetMap

• worldwide collaborative and free web map
• Download OSM data for NRW

Worldclim

• global climatic raster layer
• future projections of various climate models

Corine Land Cover

• land use / land cover of Europe
• standardised, hirarchical classes
• vector or raster

GBIF — the Global Biodiversity Information Facility

• Species occurrence data
• Collection of public observations and scientific datasets