Dr. Mary T. Dooley Map Library

Beacon's mapping tool allows users to look up local property and tax data.

Minnesota CliMAT is an interactive online tool that provides highly localized climate projections for Minnesota. Users can view climate projections down to the 4km/2.5mile scale across the state, visualizing how even specific towns will likely be impacted in the coming decades.

The Lake & Flood Elevations Online (LFEO) viewer is a web-based interactive map tool for users to view flood elevations for lakes and other basins in Minnesota

The Lake & Flood Elevations Online (LFEO) viewer is a web-based interactive map tool for users to view flood elevations for lakes and other basins in Minnesota.

The DNR offers this wetland finder application that was "developed using the best available remote sensing data including high-resolution aerial imagery and lidar-based elevation models."

"Collection of borehole geophysical logs from the Minnesota Geological Survey Borehole Geophysical Database."

The Minnesota Geospatial Commons is a collaborative place for users and publishers of geospatial resources about Minnesota. The term “geospatial resources” refers to the wide variety of data sources associated with particular geographic locations.

The Minnesota Well Index provides information about wells and borings in Minnesota. It provides basic information, such as location, depth, geology, construction and static water level, for many wells and borings drilled in Minnesota.

MnDOT's geotechnical database includes data at the time of the original investigation, including the borings and foundations.

The Enterprise MnDOT Mapping Application (EMMA) references the most current version of Linear Referencing System (LRS) data. The LRS is a suite of Esri tools to manage and maintain route location information and roadway characteristic data.

The City of Minneapolis seeks to provide increased access to public spatial geographic information systems (GIS) and non-spatial data that is regularly requested by private citizens and businesses.

The CDC organizes data into four topic areas: Public Health Resources, GIS Data, Social Determinants of Health Resources, and Environmental Health Data Resources.

The United States Government’s open data site is designed to unleash the power of government open data to inform decisions by the public and policymakers, drive innovation and economic activity, achieve agency missions, and strengthen the foundation of an open and transparent government.

Esri provides a full spectrum of ready-to-use, high-quality geospatial data for your GIS visualization and analysis projects. Whether licensed from renowned, industry-leading providers or built with Esri's proven methodologies, we strive to deliver the most accurate and current data available.

This report promotes public access to government data by publishing federal ArcGIS server
addresses. State, county and city ArcGIS server addresses are included in this report with the
hope that those teaching and learning GIS will use those local resources to help them learn about
and explore geospatial data for their own backyard

This website provides access to several EPA databases to provide you with information about environmental activities that may affect air, water, and land anywhere in the United States.

Includes aerial photographs from 1937 onward and satellite images. Links to EarthExplorer and Glovis to download shapefiles.

This application includes a preliminary National Flood Hazard layer, preliminary changes since last flood insurance rates map (FIRM), preliminary map comparison tool, the pending National Flood Hazard layer, and the National Flood Hazard layer.

Federal agencies and their partners collect and manage large amounts of geospatial data - but these data are often not easily found when needed or accessible in useful forms. The Geospatial Platform provides ready access to federally maintained geospatial data, services and applications. The content of all datasets and services demarcated with the Data.gov globe have been verified by the Agency to be consistent with Federal privacy, national security, and information quality policies. As an additional service to our users, we also provide access to data from our partners across State, Tribal, Regional and local governments as well as non-governmental organizations.

GISCO is the Geographic Information System of the Commission. It provides the European Commission with geographical information, meeting its needs at 3 levels: EU, Member State and regional. In addition to creating statistical and other thematic maps, GISCO manages a database of geographical information, and provides related services to the Commission.

The U.S. Census Bureau has gathered information from other countries and compiled it into useable formats. Included on this page is the International Data Base (IDB), which has population pyramids and other source information.

IPUMS provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. Includes the International Historical Geographic Information System (IHGIS) and National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS).

This resource "provides tools for mapping and download of cancer statistics, risk factors, cancer related tobacco policy data, and the information related to geographic disparities in cancer."

The National Elevation Dataset (NED) is the primary elevation data product of the USGS. The NED is a seamless dataset with the best available raster elevation data of the conterminous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and territorial islands.

The Mission of NOAA's National Geodetic Survey (NGS) is "to define, maintain and provide access to the National Spatial Reference System to meet our nation's economic, social, and environmental needs."

The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides population, housing, agricultural, and economic data, along with GIS-compatible boundary files, for geographic units in the United States from 1790 to the present

This resource "provides tools for mapping and download of cancer statistics, risk factors, cancer related tobacco policy data, and the information related to geographic disparities in cancer."

The National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD) is a set of nationwide geographic databases of transportation facilities, transportation networks, and associated infrastructure. These datasets include spatial information for transportation modal networks and intermodal terminals, as well as the related attribute information for these features.

provides data and products from the National Weather Service.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service offers wetlands mapper which "integrates digital map data along with other resource information to produce current information on the status, extent, characteristics and functions of wetlands, riparian , and deep-water habitats."

Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.

the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) provides maps and geospatial products related to weather, climate, oceanographic data, and more.

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

SEDAC has as its mission to develop and operate applications that support the integration of socioeconomic and earth science data and to serve as an "Information Gateway" between earth sciences and social sciences.

This site links to various state data centers recognized by the Census Bureau.

The Census Bureau offers several file types and an application for mapping census geographic data based on data found in their MAF/TIGER database.

Explore census data sets in maps.

The Geospatial Data Gateway (GDG) provides access to a map library of over 100 high resolution vector and raster layers in the Geospatial Data Warehouse. It is the One Stop Source for environmental and natural resources data, at any time, from anywhere, to anyone. It allows you to choose your area of interest, browse and select data, customize the format, then review and download.

The 3D Elevation Program is managed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Geospatial Program to respond to growing needs for high-quality topographic data and for a wide range of other three-dimensional (3D) representations of the Nation's natural and constructed features. 3DEP informs critical decisions that are made across our Nation every day that depend on elevation data, ranging from immediate safety of life, property, and environment to long term planning for infrastructure projects.

"USGS is a primary source of geographic information system (GIS) data. Our data and information is presented in spatial and geographic formats, including The National Map, Earth Explorer, GloVIS, LandsatLook, and much more. Explore GIS Data Maps."

The USGS EarthExplorer (EE) tool provides users the ability to query, search, and order satellite images, aerial photographs, and cartographic products from several sources.

Use The National Map Viewer to explore base-layer GIS data, see availability of USGS topographic maps, and create your own web map.

The National Water Information System provides access to water-related data at over 1.5 million sites in the United States and its territories.

StreamStats provides access to spatial analytical tools that are useful for water-resources planning and management, and for engineering and design purposes.

Proprietary software by ESRI that includes hundreds of tools for performing spatial analysis

Proprietary software that incorporates geospatial image processing and analysis, remote sensing and GIS capabilities into a powerful, convenient package

GeoServer is an open source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data.

Geographic Resources Analysis Support System, commonly referred to as GRASS GIS, is a Geographic Information System (GIS) used for data management, image processing, graphics production, spatial modelling, and visualization of many types of data.

QGIS is a free and open source software that gives "the power of spatial visualization and decision making tools to everyone."