Geospatial Data Sources

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Imagery

 MapQuest - MapQuest? Open Aerial data

 USGS Seamless Server - Great source for imagery and elevation data in the US.

 JPL OnEarth - Collection of WMS sources provided by JPL

 NASA Blue Marble - Access to the NASA Blue Marble imagery

 ICEDS - Integrated CEOS European Data Server (ICEDS). WMS server with various imagery layers, particularly of Europe and Africa.

 Naval Research Lab (NRL) GIDB OpenGIS Web Services

 Natural Earth - Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales.

 Virtual Terrain Project - Various sources for whole-earth images.

Elevation data

 CGIAR SRTM 90m - Worldwide 90m elevation dataset.  CGIAR SRTM 90m European mirror

 SRTM 30 Plus Bathymetry - Worldwide elevation coverage including bathymetric data. Same elevation data used in Google Earth!

 SRTM GLCF - SRTM data from the Global Land Cover Facility. Has a nice mosaic of the 30 arc second data  here.

 General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO)

Feature data

 OpenStreetMap - Worldwide street and land use data (vectors and rasterized vector imagery)

 MapQuest OSM and Mapnik - MapQuest? street map layers

 DIVA-GIS - Free worldwide vector data (DCW, VMAP, etc.)

 Natural Earth - Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales.


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