November 5, 2013 – NOAA today unveiled the beta version of "NOAA View," an online educational tool that gives educators and the public interactive access to NOAA environmental data, enabling unique views of the world’s oceans, land, atmosphere, cryosphere and climate. The NOAA View imagery portal provides a single point for experiencing NOAA data, including […]
Updated Elevation Data Inventory Available from NOAA, USGS, and FEMA
The U.S. Interagency Elevation Inventory is the website to visit to see where high-accuracy elevation data are available. This comprehensive, nationwide listing is updated annually and is now current as of August 2013. The data resource includes information about over 1000 lidar data sets, as well as bathymetric data that includes NOAA hydrographic surveys, multibeam […]
Data – Australian geological provinces – dataset release version 2013.01
Geoscience Australia has just released the 2013 preliminary edition of its Australian Geological Provinces dataset. The dataset contains descriptions and spatial extents of the fundamental geological elements of the Australian continent and its offshore surrounds. Province types include sedimentary basins, tectonic provinces such as cratons and orogens, igneous provinces and metallogenic provinces. The spatial […]
Energy Mapping Firm Greatly Expands Power Transmission Data
Recent Acquisitions Lead to Better Sources for Electric Transmission Project Data
East View Geospatial Partners with PlanetObserver to Offer Global Data Elevation and Imagery
East View Geospatial Partners with PlanetObserver to Offer Global Data Elevation and Imagery Data on EVGeoCloud
Astrium unveils first WorldDEM sample data
17 October 2013 – Astrium, world’s second-ranking space company, has released the first WorldDEM™ sample data sets for evaluation purposes, enabling potential customers to begin testing data for varied applications including line-of-sight analysis, 3D visualisation or orthorectfication of satellite imagery. The sample data also facilitates testing of the Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) in the users’ […]
New USGS topo Maps for Colorado and Minnesota
Newly designed US Topo maps covering Colorado and Minnesota are now available online for free download
Mapping the Final Frontier – USGS releases more than 400 updated US Topo maps of Alaska
More than 400 new topographic maps are now available for the state of Alaska. The new maps are part of the U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Mapping Initiative, to update foundational data for the state and to replace the existing maps that are about 50 years old. "These new digital maps of Alaska are elevating our […]
Coming Soon from FEMA – National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL) GIS Data Available for Download
On September 23rd, 2013 the following changes will be made to the MSC Product Catalog and Map Search: • National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL) Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Data will be searchable through Map Search • County and State NFHL databases will be downloadable from MSC Product Catalog • Effective FIRM Databases will no longer […]
New from the US Census Bureau – 2013 TIGER/Line Shapefiles and TIGER/Line Files
The 2013 TIGER/Line Shapefiles contain 2010 Census geography and current geography for the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Island areas . Current geography is defined as the latest version of the geographic extent of legally defined geographic areas as reported, generally reflecting the boundaries of govern mental units in effect […]