sk1me/poland-gis-datasets

GitHub page gathering links to polish GIS datasets. Poland has really great visual data but its quite distributed across many websites. Here I am creating a gateway to find your way faster than ever.

poland-gis-datasets

GitHub page gathering links to polish GIS datasets: vectors (points, lines, polygons), rasters and Web Map Services (WMS) or Web Map Tiled Services (WMTS). Feel free to update this database.

Administrative Datasets

Vector Datasets (SHP, GeoJSON and other)

• European Environment Agency - country polygon - 9,72 MB
  https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/eea-reference-grids-2/gis-files/poland-shapefile
• polska-geojson GitHub - administrative division - 145 KB - 8 MB
  https://github.com/ppatrzyk/polska-geojson
• EnviroSolutions - Borders, administrative division, cadastral data, voivodships, communities, districts - various size
  https://www.envirosolutions.pl/en/otwarte-dane.html
• GIS Support - Borders, special borders, administrative division, cadastral data, voivodships, communities, districts - various size
  https://gis-support.pl/baza-wiedzy-2/dane-do-pobrania/granice-administracyjne/
• Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography (GUGiK) - Adress points - 905MB (~20GB after extracting)
  https://opendata.geoportal.gov.pl/prg/adresy/PRG-punkty_adresowe.zip
• Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography (GUGiK) - Administrative boundaries, special borders, address points divided to voivodeships - various size
  http://www.gugik.gov.pl/pzgik/dane-bez-oplat/dane-z-panstwowego-rejestru-granic-i-powierzchni-jednostek-podzialow-terytorialnych-kraju-prg

Geology Datasets

Vector Datasets (SHP, GeoJSON and other)

• The Polish Geological Institute (PGI) - Caves, boreholes, mining areas, groundwater bodies, seismics, geomorphology, cross section lines and more - various size
  http://dm.pgi.gov.pl/ (https://geolog.pgi.gov.pl/)

Raster Datasets (GeoTIFF and other)

• The Polish Geological Institute (PGI) - Geological maps 1:50 000 to download - various size
  https://geolog.pgi.gov.pl/

Hydrology Datasets

Vector Datasets (SHP, GeoJSON and other)

• EnviroSolutions - Water bodies, lakes, rivers - various size
  https://www.envirosolutions.pl/en/otwarte-dane.html

Infrastracture Datasets

Vector Datasets (SHP, GeoJSON and other)

• EnviroSolutions - Roads, railroads, bike roads (Warsaw only) - various size
  https://www.envirosolutions.pl/en/otwarte-dane.html

Environment and Nature Datasets

Vector Datasets (SHP, GeoJSON and other)

• EnviroSolutions - National, landscape parks, nature reserves, measurement stations - various size
  https://www.envirosolutions.pl/en/otwarte-dane.html
• GIS Support - Physiogeographic regions and links to other portals - ~20 MB
  https://gis-support.pl/dane-srodowiskowe/

Statictic Datasets

Vector Datasets (SHP, GeoJSON and other)

• Statistics Poland - Demographics, statistic data, cities for statistics use - https://geo.stat.gov.pl/imap/ (this is geoportal, need to search metadata to find links eg. link 1, link_2 - various size

Landcover Datasets

Vector Datasets (SHP, GeoJSON and other)

• The CORINE Land Cover, Copernicus - land cover polygons - various size
  https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/corine-land-cover

Elevation (Digital Elevation Model (DEM)) Datasets

Raster and Text Datasets

• Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography - 1 m spatial resolution - time: 2013-present - format: ARC/INFO ASCII GRID, ASCII XYZ GRID in separate sheets, need to choose NMT(DEM) layer in right panel - tiles: 2 km x 2km - various size
  https://mapy.geoportal.gov.pl/imap/Imgp_2.html
• Copernicus EU DEM - spatial resolution: 25 m - time: 2011 - format: GeoTIFF 32 BIT - tiles: 1000 km x 1000 km - various size
  https://land.copernicus.eu/imagery-in-situ/eu-dem/eu-dem-v1.1/view
• NASA SRTM - spatial resolution: 1 arc second (~30 m) - time: 2000 - format: DEM, GeoTIFF - tiles: various - various size
  https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/
  https://dwtkns.com/srtm/
  https://dwtkns.com/srtm30m/
  https://remotepixel.ca/projects/srtm1arc-gl.html
  

Historic Map Datasets

Raster

• Mapster - Old maps of Poland and Central Europe -various resolution - various time - various size
  http://igrek.amzp.pl/

Current Map Datasets

Vector

• Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography - Database of general geographic objects (BDOO), Database of Topographic Objects (BDOT10k), Digital Elevation Model (DEM), Ortophotomap, LiDAR, State Register of Borders and Areas of Territorial Divisions of the Country (PRG), National Register of Geographical Names (PRNG)- formats: GML, SHP, ASC, GeoTIFF
  https://www.gov.pl/web/gugik/dane-udostepniane-bez-platnie-do-pobrania-z-serwisu-wwwgeoportalgovpl
• Open Street Map - Geofabrik.de - format: Vector Tile PBF
  https://download.geofabrik.de/europe/poland.html

Geoportals

• National Geoportal run by the Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography
  https://mapy.geoportal.gov.pl/imap/Imgp_2.html?gpmap=gp0
• Geoservice of the General Directorate for Environmental Protection
  http://geoserwis.gdos.gov.pl/mapy/
• Geoportal of the Chief Inspectorate of Environmental Protection
  http://inspire.gios.gov.pl/portal/
• Geoportal of the Polish Geological Institute - National Research Institute
  http://geologia.pgi.gov.pl/
• Forest Data Bank portal run by the General Directorate of State Forests
  https://www.bdl.lasy.gov.pl/portal/en
• Map service of the Forest Research Institute
  https://www.ibles.pl/mapa/index.html
• Data from the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management - National Research Institute
  https://imgw.isok.gov.pl/index.html
• The INSPIRE Geoportal of the European Commission
  https://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/
• Statistics Poland
  https://geo.stat.gov.pl/imap/
• KZGW - Hydroportal - Flood risk and threat maps
  https://wody.isok.gov.pl/imap_kzgw/