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

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