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List and description of openly available data sets

List of Data Sets

Here is a list of publicly available data sets for many Data Science projects to come. Many sets are constantly updated others are not. Future plans on this project:

  • Improved Documentation
  • Subsets for examples
  • Visualisation of subsets

Geospacial Data

A vast selection of geospacial data exists on the internet:

Sources Description Link
Geoportal.de A multitude of geospacial data and visualisations www.geoportal.de
Service Center of the Federal Agency for Catography and Geodesy Current and archived German geospacial data for online use www.geodatenzentrum.de
Geoportal.nrw Explorable maps and data for the federal state of NRW. Data sets are categorized. So far only in German. www.geoportal.nrw
open.nrw Maps and data (>2500 datasets) for the federal state of NRW. Data sets are categorized. So far only in German. www.open.nrw
Nationaal Georegister (NGR) Maps and data (>9500 datasets) for the Netherlands. Data sets are categorized. So far only in Dutch. www.nationaalgeoregister.nl
Publieke Dienstverlening op de Kaart (PDOK) Maps and datasets of the Netherlands (>300). www.pdok.nl/en
INSPIRE Geoportal Geoportal for the European Union and partner states inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/
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Selected Data Sets

Name Publisher Description Format License Link
German Digital Landscape Model 1:250,000 (DLM250) Federal Agency for Catography and Geodesy A vectorized representation of the topographic features of the landscape (± 100m) ArcInfo-SHAPE, NAS_NBA Source & indication of alteration geodatenzentrum.de/...
German CORINE Land Cover 10 ha (CLC10) Federal Agency for Catography and Geodesy A vectorized landscape description under the CLC-class nomenclature. Contains the land cover and land usage for surfaces > 1ha ArcInfo-SHAPE Source & indication of alteration geodatenzentrum.de/...
German Digital Terrain Model grid width 200 m (DGM200) Federal Agency for Catography and Geodesy A description of the terrain forms of earth's surface. Height accurracy is ± 3 to 10 m GRID-ASCII, XYZ-ASCII Source & indication of alteration geodatenzentrum.de/...
German Digital Topographic Map 1:200,000 (interim edition) (DTK200-V) Federal Agency for Catography and Geodesy Rastered data of the general topographic map with hill shading. 320px per cm. TIFF-LZW Source & indication of alteration geodatenzentrum.de/...
German Administrative areas 1:250,000 (01.01.2017) Federal Agency for Catography and Geodesy Vectorized map of all administrative units, their statistical code numbers and names as well as specific designation of the level of public authority of the repective federal state. ArcInfo-SHAPE Source & indication of alteration geodatenzentrum.de/...
German Administrative areas 1:250,000 with population numbers (31.12.2015) Federal Agency for Catography and Geodesy Vectorized map of all administrative units, their statistical code numbers and names as well as specific designation of the level of public authority of the repective federal state. Additionally this data set contains pupulation numbers. ArcInfo-SHAPE Source & indication of alteration geodatenzentrum.de/...
German Geographical Names 1:250,000 (GN250) Federal Agency for Catography and Geodesy Data set containing geographical names and coordinates of objects, water bodies, islands, mountain ranges and so on. ArcInfo-SHAPE, CSV Source & indication of alteration geodatenzentrum.de/...
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