GIS Services

The following links direct you to subject-specific GIS resources in Richardson Library and available on the internet.

• GIS for Architecture and Planning 
• GIS for Biology, Ecology and Environmental Science 
• GIS for Civil Engineering 
• GIS for Criminology
• GIS for Political Science
• GIS for Public Health 

• GIS for Outer Space includes links to datasets for celestial bodies beyond Earth.
• GIS for Earth includes links to international datasets for countries, continental data and more.
• GIS for the United States includes links to national data sources and states other than Maryland.
• GIS for Maryland and Baltimore  data covering the State of Maryland and internal municipalities.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Data.gov a repository of user, institutional, an government generated data

UNEP (United Nations Environmental Programme) manages numerous high quality geospatial data sets at various scales (global, continental, national and subnational) on a variety of environment related themes. 

Natural Earth 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.