GIS Data: Clearinghouses and Geoportals

A USAID-funded global archive of spatial data collected and distributed for the greater humanitarian community. While located at the University of Georgia, the GIST Repository is free to access but requires creation of a login account.

Download administrative boundaries, roads, railroads, altitude, land cover, population density for any country in the world

The FGDC coordinates the sharing of geographic data, maps, and online services through an online portal, GeoPlatform.gov, that searches metadata held within the NSDI Clearinghouse Network.

Offers free downloads of post-1980s aerial photography and imagery of the State of Georgia; also roads, utilities, education, geology, demographic, and more!

Contains links to webites with attribute and geospatial data for each of the 50 states, Washington, D.C., and the United States as a whole. This site is maintained by the University of Arkansas Libraries.

The National Geospatial Program provides leadership for USGS geospatial coordination, production and service activities. Access, view, and download information from geo-spatial databases produced by the USGS and other government agencies.

Data themes are available in three levels of detail. For each scale, themes are listed on Cultural, Physical, and Raster category pages

This is a wiki of publicly accessible U.S. state agency databases, hosted by the American Library Association (ALA) Government Documents Round Table (GODORT). Contains a lot of state specific, often overlooked data, that is maintained by local experts.

Open data portal for Athens Clarke County

GIS data for just the City of Atlanta.

Crime data for the City of Atlanta. Updated at least weekly.

Covers the Atlanta metro area

Greater Savannah - Chatham County area