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.
Find free global natural hazards GIS data including USGS earthquakes, GEM faults, flood hazard maps, NASA FIRMS wildfires, and volcano records.
Discover free global vegetation and ecosystem datasets including MODIS NDVI/EVI, VIIRS Nightlights, GEDI canopy height, WWF Ecoregions, and the IUCN Ecosystem Typology.
Download Overture Maps Foundation data by theme — Places, Buildings, Transportation, Addresses, Base, and Divisions — as GeoParquet or GeoJSON, then inspect it in GIS.
Discover free global marine and ocean GIS datasets including EEZ boundaries, marine protected areas, shipping lanes, sea surface temperature, and mangrove mapping data.
Learn to validate GeoJSON for RFC 7946 with the free online validator. Catch geometry, coordinate, and structural errors before publishing GIS data.
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.
Find free global cropland, irrigation, and crop production GIS data, including GFSAD30, FAO irrigation, SPAM, 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.