GIS Services at the Library

Service is free but requires request for account to download shapefile data

Southern California Association of Governments (covers southern California except San Diego County

recently released access to Los Angeles City GIS Data

GIS layers for the Bernard Field Station can be opened either using web (option for non GIS & Mac users) or for analysis using ArcGIS ArcMAP.

Trails End Ranch is a 51 acre "ranch" located within Webb Canyon, Claremont, California. The Ranch was built in 1916, used primarily as a hunting lodge for employees of Southern California Edison; previous owners used it as a private residence. Currently, the property consists of a main house converted into a conference/meeting area and a barn used for academic field activities. The main house has a large central courtyard on the north side and a veranda on the south-facing side with views of the city. For more information visit here.

(Data.CA.gov) - Data and geo data from the state of California.

(State of California) - Find and use geospatial data from the state of California.

The CNDD inventories the status and locations of rare plants and animals in California.

(California Energy Commission) - Includes GIS data sets and research on climate change risks in specific geographic areas throughout California.

(California GAP Analysis Project) - Contains GIS data sets developed for the California GAP Analysis Project. Data is available in statewide datasets or in subsets by ecological region and is available in ARC/INFO export file format. Datasets include landcover, land stewardship and ownership, Jepson ecological region boundaries, predicted distribution of 455 terrestrial vertebrate species, and other basic reference datasets. The same data is available on the GAP Analysis of Mainland California: An Interactive Atlas of Terrestrial Biodiversity and Land Management (Atlas QH 76.5 C2 C34 1995).

(California Department of Fish and Game)

(California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Fire and Resource Assessment Program) - Contains approximately 50 datasets in ARC/INFO or shapefile export format that relate mainly to California forestry, fire, land use, and vegetation.

(UC Berkeley) - MapUp interface allows users to discover geospatial data holdings, preview geospatial data, create custom maps using a web browser, and download geospatial data in a variety of formats. Currently contains over 9,000 geospatial data layers from UC Berkeley, Harvard University, and MIT that are sourced from national, state, county, and local government sources of freely available data, purchased by the library, or contributed by users of GeoData@UC Berkeley. All government-provided data is free for anyone to use. Some data purchased by the library and contributed data are restricted for use by UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.

(California Department of Transportation Office of GIS)

(US Forest Service. Pacific Southwest Region) - Includes geospatial data for national forests in California, along with regionwide, provincewide, and statewide datasets. Includes existing vegetation on national forests and other lands in California through a cooperative mapping program with California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

(USGS National Water Information System) - Includes data and statistics on water in California.

Data from the National Center for Educational Statistics can be queried and download as Excel then can be geocoded

(Association of Bay Area Governments) - Includes Census, earthquake and other hazard geospatial data for the Bay Area.

Encompasses the central coast of California.

(San Diego Association of Governments) - Includes several interactive mappers and downloadable geospatial data.

(City and County of San Diego) - Geographic data warehouse that includes a map gallery, an interactive mapper and downloadable geospatial data.

(Information Center for the Environment, UC Davis) - Maps and data available.

(Southern California Association of Governments) - Search metadata information and download data.

(North Coast Integrated Regional Water Management Plan) - Data and research on watersheds of California's North Coast. Includes watershed maps and a library of research documents.

Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data, from the US Census Bureau.

List of all U.S. Census, 1790 to present.

The Ag Census Web Maps include maps of statistics based on data from the 2012 U.S. Census of Agriculture. These data were collected at the farm level and summarized to the county level for publication. The Ag Census Web Maps provide U.S. county-level data. The data are grouped into five worksheets (Crops and Plants, Economics, Farms, Livestock and Animals, Operators) within a Microsoft® Excel spreadsheet that is available for easy download. The documentation of the spreadsheet data includes a list of the mapped statistics available within each category. In the downloadable Excel spreadsheets:

(Conservation Biology Institute) - Search for spatial datasets, maps, people and centers of expertise that focus on conservation. Datasets available for download.

(U.S.D.A. Natural Resources Conservation Service) - Includes data sets available from the USCA agencies, USGS and other sources.

(Federal Geographic Data Committee) - Provides common geospatial data, services and applications contributed by various federal sources and hosted on a shared infrastructure for use by government agencies and the public. Includes the ability to build your own map.

(Open Geoportal Project) - Open source, federated web application to discover, preview, and retrieve data housed in geospatial respositories.

(US Geological Survey) - Includes orthoimagery, elevation and land use datasets for the United States.

(US Geological Survey) - Identify geospatial products available from the US Geological Survey including aerial photography, satellite imagery, digital orthophoto quads, digital line graphs, digital elevation models, digital raster graphics, and other map products. Determine spatial coverage by defining coverage on a map, entering geographic coordinates, or entering a place name.

(GISUser.com) - Lists GIS data nodes by state with an additional listing of Canadian sources.

(U.S. Federal Government) - Find datasets generated by U.S. Federal Government.

(University of Arkansas Libraries) - Lists attribute and geospatial resources available at a national level and individually by state.

(National States Geographic Information Council) - Gateway to state, county and city data.

Esri Demographics powers the ArcGIS System with access to global demographic, spending, lifestyle, and business data.

(Robin Wilson) - Categorized by physical geography, human geography and by individual country/area.

Guide to geospatial data, organizations that provide data, and services provided by Canadian and other international organizations.

Esri Service can be created using public created account. However, additional resources are provided if you request an organizational account from GIS services here at the library

A free, and simple but versatile GIS program, and global datasets, that is particularly useful for studying the distribution of biodiversity.

(GeoIQ) - A public community building an open repository for data and maps for the world.

(Columbia University) - Specializes in data and applications related to human interactions with the environment.

(Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) - Includes interactive maps, GIS datasets, satellite imagery and related applications.

(United Nations Environment Programme) - Includes data sets used in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other environment assessments. The database holds more than 400 variables that are available as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps). Topics covered include themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. Data can be displayed on-the-fly as interactive maps, graphs, data tables or downloaded in different formats.

(Geocommunity) - Includes GIS data for the individual countries, states and counties. Some data products are free (DEM, NWI, DLG, LU/LC, and TIGER). Other data products (DRG, DOQ, DOQQ, FEMA) are available for purchase at a nominal fee.

(EDINA)

The Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF) provides earth science data and products to help everyone to better understand global environmental systems. In particular, the GLCF develops and distributes remotely sensed satellite data and products that explain land cover from the local to global scales.