Tennessee Data Resources
| TNMap Open Data Portal | The state’s new portal making available data including administrative boundaries, political districts, water, state parks, and trails. |
| STS GIS Data | Download state LiDAR and derived products including elevation (DEM), countours, and building footprints. |
| TNGIS Tennessee GIS Clearinghouse | Provides links to other data sources and some Tennessee specific downloadable products derived from Federal datasets. |
| TWRA GIS | Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency maintained maps and data. |
| Tennessee Property Viewer | Interactive web map allowing users to browse property boundaries for the majority of Tennessee counties. No data download functionality. Some counties including Knox, Davidson, Shelby and Hamilton are not included. |
| Tennessee GIS Data at UTK Libraries | Collection of links to data sources organized by theme maintained by Eric Arnold, UTK Libraries GIS Specialist. |
| Tennessee Spatial Data Nexus | ArcGIS Open Data Site maintained by the UTK Geography GIS Labs |
| Tennessee State Data Center | ArcGIS Open Data site hosting census and population data maintained by the Tennessee State Data Center |
Local and Regional Data Sources
| Nashville Open Data | City of Nashville Open Data Portal containing various spatial and non-spatial datasets. |
| Chattanooga Open Data | Portal maintained by the Chattanooga Public Library containing city and community data. |
| Shelby County 911 Open Data | Downloadable data includes road centerlines, address points and emergency zones for Shelby County and Memphis. |
| North Carolina OneMap | North Carolina’s geospatial portal |
| Georgia SDI | Georgia Spatial Data Infrastructure. Direct link to GIS Clearinghouse here (account creation required). |
| Kentucky Geography Network | Kentucky statewide data portal and mapping applications. |
| Virginia Open Data | State of Virginia open data portal |
| South Carolina GIS | Resource for GIS data maintained by various South Carolina state agencies. |
| Virtual Alabama | Portal for multi-agency Alabama data coordinated by Alabama Department of Homeland Security. Login is required but anyone with education email address (ending with .edu) can create a free account. |
| Florida Geographic Data Library | Comprehensive resource of state, federal and local datasets in Florida maintained by the University of Florida GeoPlan Center. |
US Federal Government
| US Census Bureau TIGER products | “TIGER products are spatial extracts from the Census Bureau’s MAF/TIGER database, containing features such as roads, railroads, rivers, as well as legal and statistical geographic areas.” |
| Data.GOV | Comprehensive index of US Government open data including spatial and non-spatial. |
| USGS National Map Viewer | Elevation (DEM), hydrography, imagery, land cover and other US Geological Survey products are downloadable from this interactive map. Go here for info on this tool and available data. |
| EPA Geospatial Resources | Applications and searchable datasets maintained by the US Environmental Protection Agency. |
| NRCS Geospatial Gateway | US Department of Agriculture – Natural Resources Conservation Service resource includes soil, imagery, hydrology and climate data. |
| NOAA Digital Coast | Resource for a variety of coastal datasets and geospatial tools including extensive collection of elevation and LiDAR data. |
| US Fish & Wildlife Service GIS Data | Data related to wildlife conservation and fisheries including critical habitat areas, ecosystem regions, and the National Wetlands Inventory. |
| National Park Service Data Clearinghouse | Data for NPS administered areas including National Parks, Monuments, Historic Sites and Seashores. |
| National Renewable Energy Laboratory GIS Data | GIS resources relating to renewable energy including biomass, solar, geothermal and wind data. |
| USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center | Collection of satellite and aerial imagery and derived products including land cover and fire maps. |
US Non-Government
| NSGIC GIS Inventory | Multi-agency resource compiling datasets from state and local providers managed by the National States Geographic Information Council |
| Texas A&M GeoCoder | Free geocoding engine for US addresses provided by Texas A&M University Geoservices. |
| The Nature Conservancy GIS | |
| Open Topography | Download high resolution topographic data in raster or point cloud formats. Most datasets are within US but some global availability. |
Global & International Resources
| GeoData at Tufts | Comprehensive portal containing over 13,000 open datasets. |
| United Nations Environment Programme Data Explorer | |
| WorldClim | Global Climate Data including rasters for temperature, precipitation, wind and solar radiation. |
| ESRI Living Atlas of the World | |
| Global Land Cover Facility | “GLCF develops and distributes remotely sensed satellite data and products that explain land cover from the local to global scales” |
| HydroSHEDS | Global hydrographic and watershed data created by a collaboration of the USGS and World Wildlife Fund. |
| FAO GeoNetwork | Global resource for maps, GIS data and imagery maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. |
| GADM Database of Global Administrative Areas | “Administrative areas in this database are countries and lower level subdivisions such as provinces, departments, bibhag, bundeslander, daerah istimewa, fivondronana, krong, landsvæðun, opština, sous-préfectures, counties, and thana.” |
Other Good Stuff
| GIS StackExchange | Question and Answer site because if you’re having a problem you aren’t alone. |
| ColorBrewer | Indispensable resource for color selection in cartography. Download an ArcGIS Style file with ColorBrewer palates here (no longer available on the ColorBrewer site). |
| Penn State Open Educational Resources | Scroll down to the Department of Geography section for an extensive collection of open course materials. |
| Lynda GIS Tutorials | Accessible with UTK Login. |