Cal Poly Campus CAD and Geographic Information System (GIS) Maps. Layers include campus basemap features, land use, building floor plans, visitor maps, and more.
Access geospatial datasets through the ESRI ArcGIS Living Atlas. This is a curated catalog of map and GIS datasets combining international, federal, state, local, and nonprofit GIS data providers. Subscription access is available through Cal Poly.
Browse Open Street Map to view open, community-contributed map data throughout the world. For shapefile downloads, visit the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap export tool. https://export.hotosm.org/en/v3/
Download CAD basemap data for select cities in the US and the world. Layers include roads, buildings, coastline, stream & lakes, parks and other features. Data derived from Open Street Map.
The NOAA Digital Coast site provides access to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration datasets, focused on marine, coastal and climate applications.
USGS National Geologic Map Database provides access to maps and data about geology, hazards, earth resources, geophysics, geochemistry, geochronology, paleontology and marine geology.
Social Explorer provides streamlined access to US Census datasets, with over 20,000 socio-economic indicators between 1790 and the present. Export tabular data or visualize data online. This is a campus subscription service
The Economic Census originally started out as part of the General Decennial Census and the Princeton University Library economic census has data dating back to 1810
The Opportunity Atlas is a map-based exploration of economic mobility, looking at income and demographic data summarized from a sampling of 20 million Americans from childhood to their mid-30s.
A dot density map, by CNN, depicting the US Census 2020 data on census race. This map style was based on the previous Racial Dot map, created by the University of Virginia, which is no longer available. https://demographics.coopercenter.org/racial-dot-map
The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names is a resource of over 2,000,000 names of current and historical places, including cities, archaeological sites, nations, and physical features. It focuses mainly on places relevant to art, architecture, archaeology, art conservation, and related fields.