open-geo-data-education
A repository of open geospatial datasets curated for GIS and Geographic Data Science education in higher education. Datasets have been selected, cleaned, harmonized, and repackaged from freely available open-licensed sources to save educators preparation time. Coverage includes over 30 datasets spanning points, polygons, networks, and raster data, with both global and regional scope. Topics include airports, ancient boundaries and Roman roads, historical shipwrecks, digital elevation models, nighttime lights, air quality, Eurostat indicators, historical boundaries, global temperature and precipitation, earthquakes, trade networks, population density, London borough profiles and transport networks, Los Angeles census data, tectonic plates, UK administrative boundaries including Brexit and cartograms, national parks, population estimates, Wikipedia geo pages, and World Bank indicators. All data is provided in open formats such as CSV/TSV for accessibility. Datasets are intended strictly for educational, non-com