Discover free global health facility and school location datasets including WHO Health Facilities, UNICEF Global Schools Map, HDX health data, and the Malaria Atlas Project.
Discover free global natural hazards GIS datasets including the USGS earthquake catalog, GEM active faults, global flood hazard maps, NASA FIRMS wildfires, and GVP volcano data.
Discover free global vegetation and ecosystem datasets including MODIS NDVI/EVI, VIIRS Nightlights, GEDI canopy height, WWF Ecoregions, and the IUCN Ecosystem Typology.
Discover free global marine and ocean GIS datasets including EEZ boundaries, marine protected areas, shipping lanes, sea surface temperature, and mangrove mapping data.
Learn how to validate GeoJSON files for RFC 7946 compliance using the free online GeoJSON Validator tool. Catch geometry errors, coordinate issues, and structural problems.
A comprehensive guide to free global building footprint datasets including Microsoft Building Footprints, Google Open Buildings, Overture Maps, DLR Urban Footprint, and more.
Discover free GIS datasets for energy infrastructure including the Global Power Plant Database, oil and gas pipelines, global mines, solar atlas, and wind atlas.
Discover free global air quality datasets including PM2.5 surface concentration maps, Sentinel-5P TROPOMI satellite pollutants, and CAMS atmospheric composition data.
A guide to free conflict and security datasets including ACLED political violence events, the Global Terrorism Database, and FEWS NET food security classifications for GIS analysis.
A curated guide to free global cropland, irrigation, and crop production GIS datasets — including GFSAD30, FAO irrigation, SPAM crop models, USDA CDL, and WorldCereal.
A guide to free global glacier inventory, snow cover, and sea ice datasets including the Randolph Glacier Inventory, MODIS Snow Cover, and NSIDC Sea Ice data.