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OpenAQ

air qualitycitiesenvironmentalgeospatial

Global, aggregated physical air quality data from public data sources provided by government, research-grade and other sources. These awesome groups do the hard work of measuring these data and publicly sharing them, and our community makes them more universally-accessible to both humans and machines.

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Scottish Public Sector LiDAR Dataset

citiescoastalcogelevationenvironmentallidarurban

This dataset is Lidar data that has been collected by the Scottish public sector and made available under the Open Government Licence. The data are available as point cloud (LAS format or in LAZ compressed format), along with the derived Digital Terrain Model (DTM) and Digital Surface Model (DSM) products as Cloud optimized GeoTIFFs (COG) or standard GeoTIFF. The dataset contains multiple subsets of data which were each commissioned and flown in response to different organisational requirements. The details of each can be found at https://remotesensingdata.gov.scot/data#/list

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New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) Trip Record Data

citiestransportationurban

Data of trips taken by taxis and for-hire vehicles in New York City. Note: access to this dataset is free, however direct S3 access does require an AWS account. Anonymous downloads are accessible from the dataset's documentation webpage listed below.

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End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock

citiesclimateenergyenergy modelinggeospatialmetadatamodelopen source softwaresustainabilityutilities

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funded a three-year project, End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock, that culminated in this publicly available dataset of calibrated and validated 15-minute resolution load profiles for all major residential and commercial building types and end uses, across all climate regions in the United States. These EULPs were created by calibrating the ResStock and ComStock physics-based building stock models using many different measured datasets, as described here. This dataset includes load profiles for both the baseline building stock and the building ...

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Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo (PMSP) LiDAR Point Cloud

citieselevationgeospatiallandlidarmappingurban

The objective of the Mapa 3D Digital da Cidade (M3DC) of the São Paulo City Hall is to publish LiDAR point cloud data. The initial data was acquired in 2017 by aerial surveying and future data will be added. This publicly accessible dataset is provided in the Entwine Point Tiles format as a lossless octree, full density, based on LASzip (LAZ) encoding.

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Speedtest by Ookla Global Fixed and Mobile Network Performance Maps

analyticsbroadbandcitiescivicdisaster responsegeospatialglobalgovernment spendinginfrastructureinternetmappingnetwork trafficparquetregulatorytelecommunicationstiles

Global fixed broadband and mobile (cellular) network performance, allocated to zoom level 16 web mercator tiles (approximately 610.8 meters by 610.8 meters at the equator). Data is provided in both Shapefile format as well as Apache Parquet with geometries represented in Well Known Text (WKT) projected in EPSG:4326. Download speed, upload speed, and latency are collected via the Speedtest by Ookla applications for Android and iOS and averaged for each tile. Measurements are filtered to results containing GPS-quality location accuracy.

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Open City Model (OCM)

citieseventsgeospatial

Open City Model is an initiative to provide cityGML data for all the buildings in the United States. By using other open datasets in conjunction with our own code and algorithms it is our goal to provide 3D geometries for every US building.

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Swiss Public Transport Stops

citiesgeospatialinfrastructuremappingtraffictransportation

The basic geo-data set for public transport stops comprises public transport stops in Switzerland and additional selected geo-referenced public transport locations that are of operational or structural importance (operating points).

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District of Columbia - Classified Point Cloud LiDAR

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LiDAR point cloud data for Washington, DC is available for anyone to use on Amazon S3. This dataset, managed by the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO), through the direction of the District of Columbia GIS program, contains tiled point cloud data for the entire District along with associated metadata.

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