Data sharing initiatives

Inventory of data sharing initiatives

See also: Data viewers.

National (Open Data) initiatives:

• Netherlands
  • RWS geoweb (ArcGIS rest service)
  • NedDat Hub
  • DINO geological data
  • nationaal georegister
  • Rijkswaterstaat watermarkt
  • http://www.rws.nl/kenniscentrum/databestanden/
  • noordzeeloket
  • DANS
  • Waterbase (zoetwater kwantiteit en kwaliteit)
  • Utrecht (TIP)
• United States
• Ireland
• Great Britain
• Portugal
• België
• Frankrijk
• Italië
• Estland
• Spanje
• Cyprus (Bythos online data management system)
• European data initiatives
  • ENGAGE Datasets overview of Europe
  • EMODNET
    • hydrography lot
    • geology lot
    • biology lot
    • chemistry lot
    • habitat lot
  • Water Information System for Europe (WISE)

Various data initiatives

• Overview of biological service providers (using SOAP services, for examples how to use SOAP services with Python, click here)
• INSPIRE
• marbef
• MEDIN (UK)
• olex
• waarneming.nl, = observado.org
• Google fusiontables
• VLIZ (Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee)
  • VLIZ Data Centre
  • VLIZ maritime boundaries (in QGIS gebruik http://geo.vliz.be:80/geoserver/wfs?service=WFS)
• MATROOS
• http://geoservices.knmi.nl
• 3TU.Datacentrum
• WATeRS
• IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library
• NOAA
  • NODC
    • http
    • ftp
    • opendap
    • search
  • digitalcoast
  • National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
  • oceanwatch OPeNDAP
• Tiled satellite images for Google Earth
• Nature special on data sharing .
• NODC, SeaDataNet
• webinterface SCCOOS
• World wind (Nasa open source library similar to Google Earth)
• USGS Woods Hole OPeNDAP server
• http://www.pangaea.de (overview of data sets with observations, quality controlled)
• Google Earth Engine
• Global land cover data
• DLR Earth Observation Data Service (various types of data products from satellites)
• GLCF Global Land Cover Facility (of ftp)

Geological:

• eu-seased
• jetstream
• mida
• geo-seas
• instituut beeld & geluid
• emeco
• ICES

Climate:

• http://www.knmi.nl/~sterl/Essence/
• World Wide protected areas

These initiatives OpenEarth does not intend to compete with, but to share with and to learn from.