Free GIS Data Directory

A practical gateway for downloading global DEM tiles and bounding-box extracts such as SRTM and Copernicus products.

A widely used global 30m elevation source available through public cloud and official Copernicus access paths.

Interactive download page for NASA SRTM 1-arcsecond elevation tiles with local tile coverage data and Earthdata login guidance.

Interactive download page for NASA SRTM 3-arcsecond elevation tiles with global reference coverage and Earthdata login guidance.

Public-domain global country boundaries and related admin layers for lightweight GIS basemaps and downloads.

Detailed national and subnational administrative boundaries with deeper hierarchy than most lightweight global basemaps.

Regional OpenStreetMap downloads organized by continent, country, and subregion with multiple export formats.

Custom OpenStreetMap extraction workflow for fetching specific features such as railways, airports, or waterways.

Global airport, runway, and navaid tables that are easy to transform into GIS point layers.

Global major road network lines derived from public domain cultural vector data.

Global railway lines derived from public domain cultural vector data for transport mapping.

Regional OpenStreetMap railway extracts from Geofabrik in PBF and shapefile formats.

Airport, airline, and route tables that can be joined into GIS point and line layers.

A global 10m land-cover layer with WMS, WMTS, and downloadable raster access paths.

European land cover and land use classification at 100m resolution from the Copernicus program.

United States land cover at 30m resolution with consistent classification for change analysis.

Global annual land cover classification at 500m resolution from NASA MODIS satellite data.

Global forest change, loss, gain, and extent data at 30m resolution from the University of Maryland.

Searchable free Sentinel-2 imagery access with scene discovery, preview, and download workflow guidance.

Free global Landsat imagery archive with Level-1 and Level-2 products from EarthExplorer.

High-resolution satellite imagery released for disaster response and humanitarian events.

High-resolution satellite imagery for tropical forest monitoring under the NICFI program.

Interactive web tool for visualizing and downloading Sentinel, Landsat, and other satellite imagery.

Global hydrology layers for rivers, drainage networks, and basin analysis workflows.

A high-resolution shoreline database with coastlines, rivers, and political borders derived from public domain sources.

Global Runoff Data Centre river discharge observations for hydrological modeling and water resource analysis.

Annual surface water extent and transition maps derived from Landsat imagery at 30m resolution.

National Hydrography Dataset Plus for the United States with flow direction, catchments, and waterbody features.

Two-line element records for the active Starlink satellite constellation.

Two-line element records for the OneWeb low Earth orbit satellite network.

Two-line element records for Amazon Kuiper satellites and related orbital analysis workflows.

A compact TLE dataset for the International Space Station and related orbital display workflows.

GeoJSON points for satellite ground stations and related terrestrial support infrastructure.

GeoJSON lines representing subsea cable routes used by the global internet backbone.

GeoJSON points for terrestrial landing points that anchor submarine cable systems.

GeoJSON points for cellular tower infrastructure used in terrestrial wireless network mapping.

GeoJSON lines for mapped terrestrial fiber routes with stronger route confidence.

GeoJSON lines for inferred or approximate terrestrial fiber corridors.

GeoJSON lines for major terrestrial and long-haul backbone network segments.

GeoJSON points for data center locations and colocation infrastructure.

GeoJSON points for internet exchange point facilities and peering locations.

GeoJSON points for DNS root server instances distributed across global regions.

GeoJSON points for recursive resolver footprints and publicly reachable DNS infrastructure.

GeoJSON points for edge delivery infrastructure used to cache and serve internet content close to users.

Global internet radio station locations and metadata from the Radio Browser community directory with PMTiles map support.