Awesome 3D Semantic City Modelsgithub.com
429Collection of open 3D semantic city and region models.
38 datasets
GIS datasets give you geometry plus attributes. The base layers in this list are OpenStreetMap (with regional extracts from GeoFabrik), Natural Earth vectors and rasters, GADM administrative areas, TIGER/Line boundaries and roads for the US, the US State Department's international boundaries and a time zone shapefile. GeoNames and OpenAddresses cover place names and address points, and Landsat 8 imagery is available on AWS.
Smaller curated sets add points of interest: castles, filming locations, notable places, Crusader-era sites and postal codes for Mexico and the US. Licences differ in ways that matter. OpenStreetMap is ODbL and needs attribution and share-alike for derived databases, Natural Earth is public domain, and GADM limits commercial use and redistribution. Check the coordinate reference system before overlaying layers, and the format: Shapefile, GeoJSON, GeoPackage and OSM PBF each need different tools.
Awesome 3D Semantic City Modelsgithub.com
429Collection of open 3D semantic city and region models.
ArcGIS Open Data portalopendata.arcgis.com
Audiala PlacesAudiala
33,289 travel points of interest across 93 countries and about 1,360 cities, each with a Wikidata QID, WGS84 coordinates, names in 11 languages (en, fr, de, es, pt, it, hi, zh, cs, ja, ru), one of 50 category slugs, fame signals (Wikidata PageRank and sitelink count) and a guide URL per language. A…
Cambridge, MA, US, GIS data on GitHubcambridgegis.github.io
Castles of the WorldCastlemap
7,044 documented castles, fortresses and palaces across 141 countries — name, type (castle/palace/fortress/ruin), country, coordinates, founding year and century, image with photographer and licence, and Wikipedia/Wikidata links. Curated from Wikidata and hand-checked. Direct GeoJSON and CSV…
Crusader Atlascrusaderatlas.com
Hand-curated geographic gazetteer of 170 Crusader-era sites (castles, churches, fortified towns, battles, sieges) plus 31 lordship polygons across the Latin East, 1099-1291, with WGS84 coordinates, GeoJSON geometries, photographs, and source-backed historical notes. Crusader-period analog to…
Database with all the continents, countries, states and cities of the world. This directory contains all 7 continents, 250 countries, and more than 127 thousand cities. All data can be downloaded or retrieved and managed via APIs.
15,272 real filming locations across 161 countries, joined to the 12,762 films, series, video games, anime and manga recorded at them. Per place, name, kind, country, coordinates, fame rank and production counts; per production, kind, years, the places attached to it and what each claim was read…
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society DASE Websitedase.grss-ieee.org
High Quality GeoJSON maps programmatically generated
Geo Wiki Projectgeo-wiki.org
Citizen-driven Environmental Monitoring
GeoFabrikdownload.geofabrik.de
OSM data extracted to a variety of formats and areas
GeoNames Worldwidegeonames.org
Geospatial data organized by country. Includes administrative areas, weather, elevation and more.
Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Datahifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com
Landsat 8 on AWSaws.amazon.com
List of all countries in all languagesgithub.com
5.3kplacedb Location Datagithub.com
1A worldwide dataset of countries, administrative divisions and
Metro Detroit Basement Risk IndexBasement Risk Check
Basement-flood exposure scores (0 to 100) for all 116 communities in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties, Michigan, built from U.S. Census ACS 2020-2024 housing age and City of Detroit 311 water-in-basement service requests (2023 to present), with a companion file of Detroit report rates per 1,000…
Full national catalog of Mexican postal codes published by the Mexican Postal Service (SEPOMEX), cleaned into UTF-8 CSV and JSON. About 159,000 settlements (colonias, fraccionamientos, rancherías, ejidos) with postal code, settlement type, municipality and state, plus per-state files and a…
Versioned JSON dataset of 1,314 known DIY-store locations across six retail groups in Germany, derived from an OpenStreetMap Overpass snapshot dated 2 July 2026. Includes retailer, name, address fields, coordinates, OSM source identifiers, attribution, license metadata, and published quality…
National Weather Service GIS Data Portalweather.gov
Natural Earth - vectors and rasters of the worldnaturalearthdata.com
vectors and rasters of the world
OpenAddressesopenaddresses.io
OpenStreetMap (OSM)wiki.openstreetmap.org
Pleiades - Gazetteer and graph of ancient placespleiades.stoa.org
Gazetteer and graph of ancient places
Reverse Geocoder using OSM datagithub.com
59Robin Wilson - Free GIS Datasetsfreegisdata.rtwilson.com
Free GIS Datasets
Shadow Accrual MapsUniversity of Illinois at Chicago and New York University
31The repository contains the accumulated shadow information for New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Boston and a script for retrieving the data.
TIGER/Line - U.S. boundaries and roadscensus.gov
U.S. boundaries and roads
TZ Timezones shapefileefele.net
TwoFishes - Foursquare's coarse geocodergithub.com
434Foursquare's coarse geocoder
World Notable Places (Detourmap)Detourmap
40,703 notable places worth a detour worldwide — natural wonders and archaeological sites, from waterfalls, caves, volcanoes, gorges and coves to ruins, tombs, ghost towns, shipwrecks, catacombs and mines — across 231 countries and territories, each with coordinates, kind, founding year, fame rank…
World countries in multiple formatsgithub.com
6.3kZip-Codes Free Databasezip-codes.com
Free US ZIP code database covering core fields (ZIP, city, state, county, latitude/longitude, classification) for every USPS ZIP. Account signup required for full download; no payment required. From the team behind Zip-Codes.com.
MAP-VERSE - MAP usability - Validated Empirical Research by Systematic Evaluationmap-verse.github.io
A curated metadata repository for map usability and spatial cognition studies. Covers eye tracking, EEG/fMRI, and human sensing datasets collected during geospatial tasks.
Strange Places Datasetgithub.com
7354,000 geolocated mysterious and unusual phenomena worldwide — UFO sightings, caves, megaliths, ghost towns, meteorite falls, earthquake records, volcanoes, and cryptid reports. Each record includes coordinates, type, and source.