QuickStart Guide: GIS - Geographic Information Systems

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Data sets for download or purchase

Massachusetts

• MassGIS
• MIT's Orthophoto Project

United States

• Census Bureau
• Census 2000 TIGER/Line Data
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Data & Statistics
• National Wetlands Inventory Center - U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
• Earth Explorer - U.S. Geological Survey
• National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse - U.S. Geological Survey
• Starting the Hunt - mostly free, online data sets

International

• NASA Remote Sensing Data and Images
• UNEP/GRID Clearinghouse - United Nations Environment Programme / Global Resource Information Database
• Data & Statistics - World Bank Group

Search for Other Data

• FDGC - Federal Geographic Data Committee
• Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
• Dowloadable Data Sets from ESRI web site
• GIS Data Depot
• GIS Portal - Harvard Design & Mapping, Inc.

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