We live in a priviledged era in which internet access to digital spatial information is increasing everyday! This module is designed to provide a starting point to track down sources of digital geospatial data and attributes for USA and the WORLD. The goal of this module is to point you to a variety of Internet resources we know about.

While the links are all active on this page, note that we provide the full URL of each site so that the student can print this out and keep it as a future reference.

Before you go through this exercise, think about a particular topic area and location you might want to search for data on. While we've tried to include many international GIS data websites, some are examples of U.S. repositories. If you are particularly interested in locations outside of the U.S., you should certainly try searching for that location, but in the U.S. based data repositories you may want to try a U.S. location (e.g., Amherst, Massachusetts) to see what the website provides.

NOTE: This exercise references external websites out of our control. A few of the websites referenced appear to be having stability problems or server problems. We are keeping the references in the exercise regardless, with the hope that users of this exercise can successfully access them. But we are not responsible for sites that are not operational at the time that you do this exercise.