Geospatial & Infrastructure

Places, networks, and built-environment layers for siting, coverage, and infrastructure prototypes.

Join one local boundary to a maintained layer and check whether the result is useful at neighborhood scale.

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BTS Airline On-Time Performance
IntermediateSmall
Reporting-carrier flight on-time, delay, cancellation, and diversion records for building airport and airline reliability monitors.

First Project: Compare Arrival Delays for a Handful of Origin Airports

GeospatialCSV +1No Key
Census Geocoder Address Lookup
BeginnerTiny
U.S. Census Bureau address-to-tract geocoding responses for assigning a user-entered address to its reviewed Census geography.

First Project: Check a Census Tract Match

GeospatialJSONNo Key
Census LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics
IntermediateLarge
Block-level origin-destination jobs data for building commute, workforce, and local employment-map prototypes.

First Project: Inspect Vermont LODES Job Flows

GeospatialCSV +1No Key
Census TIGER/Line Boundaries
IntermediateMedium
Official U.S. geographic boundaries and feature codes for building maps, spatial joins, service-area analyses, and demographic products.

First Project: Prepare County Boundaries for an ACS Map

GeospatialShapefile +2No Key
EAWS Avalanche Microregions
BeginnerTiny
European avalanche warning-region polygons for matching mountain destinations to regional bulletins across published areas.

First Project: Match Avalanche Regions

GeospatialGeoJSONNo Key
EIA Hourly Electric Grid Data
IntermediateLarge
Hourly U.S. electricity demand, forecasts, generation, and interchange for building grid monitors, demand alerts, and energy forecasting tools.

First Project: Monitor Demand against the Day-Ahead Forecast

GeospatialJSON +1Key
EPA Community Water Service Areas Version 2.1
IntermediateMedium
EPA's pinned community-water-system boundaries and census-block allocations for local drinking-water coverage analysis.

First Project: Inspect One Water Service Allocation

GeospatialGeoPackage +1No Key
Eurostat GISCO NUTS 2024 Geometry
IntermediateSmall
Official 2024 NUTS regional polygons from Eurostat GISCO for mapping statistical regions to geographic destinations under noncommercial terms.

First Project: Check Level-Two Regional Identifiers

GeospatialGeoJSON +1No Key
FCC BDC County Fixed Broadband Summary
IntermediateSmall
FCC Broadband Data Collection county-level fixed-availability summary tables for local service-coverage comparisons.

First Project: Inspect County Broadband Availability

GeospatialZIP +1No Key
FCC National Broadband Map
IntermediateLarge
Broadband Data Collection availability filings for building local coverage screens and digital-divide comparisons.

First Project: Inventory One State's Published Availability Files

GeospatialJSON +1Key
FHWA National Bridge Inventory
IntermediateSmall
Annual inspection records for U.S. highway bridges for building deficient-bridge maps and local infrastructure scorecards.

First Project: Rank One Jurisdiction's Bridges by Deck Condition

GeospatialCSV +1No Key
Fintraffic Digitraffic Road Messages
IntermediateSmall
Current Finnish road-traffic announcements from Fintraffic for inspecting accident-related closures and other mapped road disruptions.

First Project: Inspect Finnish Road Message Types

GeospatialGeoJSONNo Key
FTA NTD Monthly Ridership
IntermediateMedium
Agency- and mode-level public transit service and unlinked passenger-trip reports for building ridership recovery and system comparison tools.

First Project: Compare Monthly Transit Ridership Recovery

GeospatialXLSXNo Key
Geofabrik OpenStreetMap Extracts
IntermediateVery Large
Daily regional OpenStreetMap PBF extracts from Geofabrik for building local place search, road networks, and other geographic products.

First Project: Scope a Local Road Dataset

GeospatialPBFNo Key
GeoNames Daily Gazetteer Dumps
IntermediateMedium
Daily place-name and coordinate dumps from GeoNames for building searchable destination gazetteers with source attribution.

First Project: Inspect an Andorran Place Index

GeospatialTSV +1No Key
Mobility Database GTFS Feeds
IntermediateSmall
A global catalog of GTFS and related mobility feeds for building transit-feed finders that respect each agency's license.

First Project: Find Licensed GTFS Feeds for One Country

GeospatialJSONKey
Natural Earth
IntermediateMedium
Public-domain vector and raster layers at multiple scales for building maps, comparing regions, and learning practical geospatial analysis.

First Project: Map Ocean Coverage and Populated Places

GeospatialShapefile +3No Key
NDW Road Events and Closures
BeginnerTiny
Dutch compressed road-closure and safety-message records for building a dated traffic-disruption map.

First Project: Inspect Dated Local Conditions

GeospatialXMLNo Key
NREL Alternative Fuel Stations
BeginnerTiny
Alternative-fuel and EV charging station locations for building corridor maps and local charging finders.

First Project: Map Open EV Chargers in One State

GeospatialJSON +2Key
NTSB Aviation Accident Database
BeginnerSmall
Civil aviation accident and incident investigations for building safety monitors and event-history tools.

First Project: List Recent U.S. Aviation Accidents

GeospatialJSON +2No Key
OpenStreetMap Nominatim Search
BeginnerTiny
Public Nominatim place-search responses derived from OpenStreetMap for checking one user-requested address or road candidate.

First Project: Inspect One Public Place Match

GeospatialJSONNo Key
OpenStreetMap Overpass API
IntermediateTiny
Live OpenStreetMap features for building bounded place, amenity, and infrastructure lookup tools without downloading the planet.

First Project: List Cafes inside a Manhattan Bounding Box

GeospatialJSON +1No Key
OurAirports
BeginnerTiny
Community airport, runway, and navaid records for building aviation directories and map layers from a nightly public-domain CSV.

First Project: Map Large U.S. Airports from the Public-Domain Dump

GeospatialCSVNo Key
Overture Maps Places
AdvancedLarge
Global point-of-interest places for building local business, amenity, and coverage maps from a bounded extract.

First Project: Inventory Places in One Downtown Bounding Box

GeospatialGeoParquet +1No Key
Photon Place Search
BeginnerTiny
OpenStreetMap-based Photon place-search results for adding small-scale geocoding to a map application.

First Project: Search for Map Destinations

GeospatialGeoJSONNo Key
PSE Energy Compass Advisories
BeginnerTiny
Polish grid operator PSE's hourly national electricity-use recommendations for building dated system-context tools.

First Project: Inspect National Grid Advice

GeospatialJSONNo Key
USGS 3DEP One Arc-Second Elevation
IntermediateVery Large
USGS one arc-second elevation GeoTIFF tiles for measuring terrain relief and ruggedness across mapped regions.

First Project: Inspect One Elevation Tile

GeospatialGeoTIFFNo Key
USGS National Trails GeoPackages
IntermediateMedium
State-level National Transportation Database trail segments for measuring mapped outdoor access and trail density.

First Project: Inspect a Trail Segment

GeospatialZIP +1No Key
USGS PAD-US 4.1 Public Access
IntermediateLarge
USGS protected-area polygons and public-access attributes for measuring nearby open-land context in residential comparisons.

First Project: Inspect Protected-Area Access

GeospatialJSON +1No Key
Vancouver Property Addresses
BeginnerSmall
Primary mapped addresses, parcel and site identifiers, local areas, and coordinates for building geocoding and property entity-resolution tools.

First Project: Build a Property Address Crosswalk

GeospatialCSV +3No Key
Vancouver Road Ahead Current Road Closures
BeginnerTiny
Current road-closure projects, streets, completion dates, links, and line geometries for building live disruption and routing context tools.

First Project: Map Current Road Closures

GeospatialCSV +5No Key
Vancouver Zoning Districts and Labels
BeginnerSmall
Zoning polygons, classifications, categories, districts, and CD-1 identifiers for building land-use and development-potential analysis tools.

First Project: Summarize Zoning by Classification

GeospatialCSV +3No Key