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 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
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
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
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
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: Compare world regions on one map

GeospatialShapefile +3No 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 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