DIVA-GIS Free Spatial Data
Diva-gis is a good destination for free geospatial data. It provides spatial data download facility in country level. So user can download data for any country and the main categories are:
- Administrative boundaries
- Roads
- Rails
- Altitude
- Landcover
- Population density
- Apart from these categories, it also provides country boundary data (2011),Climate data, Species occurrence data, Crop collection data, Global elevation data (90 meters) and also high resolution LandSat images in MrSid format.
- Clicking on ‘Country level data’ leads to the page were user can select the data by country from the dropdown list. In the Subject dropdown list user can select the appropriate theme. Click OK to proceed.
Unzip the folder contains shapefile named IND_roads.
Open shapefile in ArcMap to see the spatial data and attribute information.