Commercial GIS Data Resources
Services United States ONLY
- Applied Geographic Solutions. Provides quality demographic and industry-specific data.
- Caliper Corporation. Provides geographic and demographic data available for order.
- Earthdata International. Provides complete mapping and GIS solutions--from the airborne collection of data to the production of diverse mapping and GIS data sets. Services support a wide variety of land use and natural resource management decisions by national, state, and local government agencies, as well as industries, such as utilities, telecommunications, forestry, mining, and engineering.
- Edgetech GIS Map Gallery. Resells off-the-shelf data, researches and integrates third-party data, and develops new custom data sets.
- Geo Community. Is the gathering place for GIS, CAD, mapping, and location-based industry professionals, enthusiasts, and students to gather. Offers some free downloadable data and software, and links to many data and software companies.
- Geowarehouse. Offers one-stop shopping for the top GIS and GPS products and accessories for mapping and vehicle tracking. Can order GIS software, data, imagery, books, workstations, global positioning systems, etc.
- ImageNet. Is a worldwide, commercial service operated by an association of several leading data providers. It provides the internet community with a single source for current, high quality geospatial data.
- Northwest GIS Services, Inc. Provide data services, including the digitizing from source media, the tracking down of off-the-shelf geographic data, and the conversion of any geographic data into clean GIS coverages. Other services include spatial analyses and cartographic services.
- The TopoZone. Allows you to create custom topographic maps and download them to your desktop. They can produce maps with full georeferencing information for use in mapping, CAD, and GIS software.
Services both United States and Others
- Data Depot. Is a specialist data team offering demographic, marketing, and mapping data sets for the U.S., UK, and Europe. Data is available for order in most formats. They can be supplied as 'off the shelf' reports, data-based maps, and/or in depth data files for use in a GIS. Also have a variety of free downloadable data.
- Geography Network. Is a global community of government and commercial data providers who committed to making geographic content easily accessible. It provides the infrastructure needed to enable the sharing of geographic information between data providers, service providers, and users around the world.
- Land Info. Offers satellite imagery, DOQQ aerial photography, topographic maps, digital elevation models, and feature extraction for U.S. and other countries.
- Macon. Offers one of the most extensive archives of worldwide digital maps. The orderable maps and data professional sets contain maps for particular countries, for economical regions, for continents, and also for the whole world.
- NEXRAIN.
- Space Imaging. Provides a variety of imagery products, including imagery from Digital Airborne Imagery System, IKONOS, Indian Remote Sensing Satellite, Landsat, and Synthetic Aperture Radar. In addition, they sell a variety of value-added information products, fully integrated hardware and software systems, and analysis services.
- SPOT Image. Provides Earth observation products for such diverse applications as agriculture, cartography, cadastral mapping, environmental studies, urban planning, telecommunications, surveillance, forestry, land use/land cover mapping, natural hazard assessments, flood risk management, oil and gas exploration, geology, and civil engineering
Services Other Countries ONLY
- British Antartic Survey Map Catalogue. Publishes a wide range of maps that are available to order.
- Canada Centre for Remote Sensing. Has two strategically placed satellite receiving stations and offers data reception, archiving, and processing services.
- Statistics Canada. Produces statistics that help better understand the population, resources, economy, society, and culture of Canada.
- ScanEx. Offer cost-effective innovative technologies for Earth imagery collection, dissemination and problem-solving use. Provide data from their own unique archive of images acquired from the Russian Resurs-01 series satellites. They also distribute Landsat-7, Radarsat-1, and MOMS-2P data products.
- Woolleysoft. Provides European Digital Chart of the World maps tiled, georeferenced, and resampled at 1km grid spacing.
