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USA - National Atlas Data
About Front page says: An atlas that gathers and presents information designed to help us understand continental-scale environmental issues has been released by the Commission... -
USAID Data
Data relating to USA's official development assistance and disaster response activities. The data from usaid.gov/data is sourced from US Official Development Assistance... -
US Census Bureau TIGER data
The US government's 'Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing' system, usually referred to as TIGER, is based on an extensive database of US geographic... -
US State Department - Humanitarian Information Unit
The unit generally provides reports and mapping tools to support emergency response. These resources are from its data page. From its website: The mission of the Humanitarian... -
A Free View of the World -- OpenAerialMap
Description "OpenAerialMap is an open collection of aerial photographs, collected into a single coherent view of the world." Openness: OPEN License: Public Domain of CC... -
New Popular Edition Maps and Postcodes
Description New Popular Edition Maps plus postcode data submitted by users using the maps. Openness Two sets of data available Map scans themselves: Not open Access: fine (see... -
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Elevation Data
Description From http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/: ... The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) obtained elevation data on a near-global scale to generate the most complete... -
Landsat Data
Description Landsat ETM+, TM, and MSS data are available from USGS for free. Base data page leads on to: http://eros.usgs.gov/products/satellite/landsat_ortho.html Not entirely... -
City Location Database
As of 2008-07-14 this data no longer seems to be available. World cities database. Data plus python interface provided. Data Data files are located in subdirectory... -
Diva GIS Global Vector data
A mixture of data sources some of which are derived from ohter projects and should be linked - GADM, DCW etc. -
City of Chicago
About There have been several blog posts about open data in Chicago (see here and here) - though there doesn't seem to be a single registry of open data.... -
The CIESIN World Data Center
Description The CIESIN World Data Center is a portal, hosted by NASA’s Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), which provides access to a wide range of global data,...