National Map / 2013 51% open (avg.)

Ranked #4 against other datasets in the Index (avg.)

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High level map at a scale of 1:250,000 or better (1cm = 2.5km)


Rank Place Breakdown Location (URL) Format Info Prev. Score
1 Finland
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http://www.maanmittauslaitos.f... n/a n/a 100%
1 Finland

Currently users can download the basic, terrain map (raster) in 1:50 000 resolution. In the future other map data will be published for free download ja use. Roadmap in Finnish: http://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/aineistot-palvelut/latauspalvelut/avoimien-aineistojen-tiedostopalvelu


1 New Zealand
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http://data.linz.govt.nz/ GeoTIFF ... n/a 100%
1 New Zealand

NZ national map is available as both vector and raster data. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/


1 Australia
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http://www.ga.gov.au/metadata-... WMS n/a 100%
1 Australia

1:250 000 scale Topographic vector data is also downloadable in full https://www.ga.gov.au/products/servlet/controller?event=FILE_SELECTION&catno=63999 One of first government organisations to adopt open licencing specifically Creative Commons. http://www.ga.gov.au/copyright.html Also provides WMS API http://www.ga.gov.au/mapconnect/wms.jsp


1 Netherlands
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http://www.kadaster.nl/web/The... shape, GML n/a 100%
1 Netherlands

The full data set is openly licensed (CC-BY), but only available on request, after which the (4GB) large file will be quickly made available for download. The OSM community is also hosting the dataset for download convenience at http://mirror.openstreetmap.nl/kadaster/


1 Iceland
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http://lmi.is n/a n/a n/a 100%
1 Austria
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http://www.basemap.at/ n/a n/a n/a 100%
1 United States
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http://www.census.gov/geo/maps... Shapefiles n/a 100%
1 United States

There is a very substantial amount of geographic information openly provided by the US Government. The most relevant to this specific question is probably the US Census' TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing) Database which provides vector data covering features such as "Boundaries, roads, address information, water features, and more". In addition to TIGER there is also substantial geographic data available from the US Geological Survery (USGS) at: http://www.usgs.gov/pubprod/. This includes topographic maps as well as aerial and satellite imagery (such as the global Landsat data).


1 United Kingdom
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https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.... TIFF n/a 100%
1 United Kingdom

The Ordnance Survey's OpenData suite of digital products includes 1:250,000 scale raster mapping for all of Great Britain, and additional national mapping at higher resolution (OS StreetView and OS VectorMap District). These products are actively maintained. As Ordnance Survey is the national mapping agency for Great Britain only, the coverage excludes Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Open data mapping for those parts of the UK is not currently available at resolutions of 1:250,000 or better. The Ordnance Survey's OpenData product suite includes mapping with better than 1:250,000 resolution (OS Street View) and is released under the OS OpenData Licence, which complies with the Open Definition. The mapping is updated regularly (most recently in May 2012).


1 Norway
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http://data.kartverket.no/down... n/a n/a 100%
1 Norway

As of 26.09.2013 extensive portions of Norwegian map data is released in digital form, under a open license ( CC 3.0 BA ) - the announcement is here: http://www.kartverket.no/Om-Kartverket/Nyheter/Nasjonale-kartdata-blir-gratis/ New maps will be added, but at this point in time Norway maps with a resolution 1:50 000 and up, are available, here: http://data.kartverket.no/download/ 2d views, terrain models, location names, road data, and boundary maps are all part of this map release. An online (WMS) version of the maps is available, freely, here: http://beta.norgeskart.no/


1 Germany
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https://www.govdata.de/suchen/... PDF, ... n/a 100%
1 Germany

Not really a good resolution but it is there. http://www.geodatenzentrum.de/geodaten/gdz_rahmen.gdz_div?gdz_spr=deu&gdz_akt_zeile=5&gdz_anz_zeile=1&gdz_unt_zeile=1&gdz_user_id=0#dok The data is available via a WebMapService and as Shape-files. This map should be covered by the GeoNutzV. http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/geonutzv/index.html It is technically not a license but it is intended to allow for reuse with attribution requirements only. However compliance with the Open Definition has not been properly reviewed yet.


1 Denmark
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http://download.kortforsyninge... n/a n/a n/a 100%
1 Canada
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http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/... Multiple n/a 100%
1 Canada

Multiple national scale framework data are available from Natural Resources Canada in the following portals: a) Geobase - http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/index.html b) GeoGratis - http://www.geogratis.gc.ca/geogratis/search?lang=en c) GeoConnections Discovery Portal - http://geodiscover.cgdi.ca/web/guest/home


13 Italy
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http://www.centrointerregional... shapefi ... n/a 90%
13 Italy

As I read in the website Data are updated to 2007.


14 Slovenia
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http://www.e-prostor.gov.si/zb... TIFF, ... n/a 70%
14 Slovenia

Geodetska uprava (Slovenian equivalent of UK Ordnance survey) takes care of maps and resells them. Bulk data is available against payment. Licensing and reuse is non-free and limited. An 1:1.000.000 topographic raster map is free of charge and free for reuse, if a source is mentioned: http://www.e-prostor.gov.si/?id=415

1:25.000 topographic maps are available for online use (but not download) through various free web viewers like the Atlas of environment and Geopedia.si .

Some other minor layers are also available free of charge (like the borders), especially environmental data at http://gis.arso.gov.si/wfs_web .


14 Mexico
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http://www.inegi.org.mx/geo/co... n/a n/a 70%
14 Mexico

Main national map is on http://www.inegi.org.mx/geo/contenidos/mapadigital/ but a secondary mapping portal (http://mapas.gob.mx) includes a map and information layers. Formats are mostly proprietary and the national map can only be used in a Windows operating system. License is not open as it prohibits any commercialization of "the right of access".


14 Switzerland
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http://www.geo.admin.ch/intern... WMS,WMT ... n/a 70%
14 Switzerland

Many of the data sets are now also available on http://opendata.admin.ch


14 India
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http://www.surveyofindia.gov.i... http://www.mapsofindia.com/ HTML n/a 70%
14 India

http://www.surveyofindia.gov.in/ is the National Survey and Mapping Organisation of the country under the Department of Science & Technology, is the OLDEST SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT OF THE GOVT. OF INDIA. The name MapsOfIndia and logo with background grid, and all others related or associated product and service names, distinguished design or Trademarks i.e. black hat with stars, logos, colour scheme and slogans are the trademarks or registered trademarks of MapsOfIndia.com All other products offered and service marks contained herein are the trademarks of MapsOfIndia.com Or of respective third party in agreement with MapsOfIndia.com You may not use any MapsOfIndia or third party trademarks or logos or images without the prior written consent of MapsOfIndia.com The data is available from the source which we can cannot confirm whether it is from official government site. The data available is comprehensive extent fully available. Some information is also available in the site "http://www.portal.gsi.gov.in/portal/page?_pageid=127,529486&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL" and "http://www.surveykshan.gov.in/"


14 Brazil
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http://www.ibge.gov.br/english... shape ... n/a 70%
14 Brazil

There is a machine-readable 1:250.000-scale vectorial map data suitable for ingestion in digital map-making systems (GIS), which includes administrative boundaries, water bodies, transportation infrastructure, energy and communication, etc. There are several other map products, at scales both greater and smaller that the above one. The licensing is unclear but claimed to be public domain, see http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-br/2009-January/000029.html.


14 Ecuador
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http://inec.gob.ec/estadistica... n/a n/a n/a 70%
14 France
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http://www.data.gouv.fr/donnee... n/a n/a n/a 70%
21 Japan
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http://www.gsi.go.jp/kiban/ind... XML or JPG n/a 60%
21 Japan

Data that can be downloaded is an XML document file or JPGIS2.x format, encoded in JPGIS2.x (GML) format


21 Poland
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http://openstreetmap.org.pl/ n/a n/a 60%
21 Poland

Opensource street map.


21 Spain
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http://centrodedescargas.cnig.... n/a n/a 60%
21 Spain

You can only download the files for each sheet one at a time. Bulk exports require filling a form and may have costs attached. No Open License as commercial use is specifically excluded.


24 Sweden
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http://www.lantmateriet.se/Kar... Shape, ... n/a 55%
24 Sweden

Lantmäteriets National maps are availiable in the scales 1:1 000 000 (Sweden map), 1:250 000 (Overview map), 1:100 000 (Roadmap) and 1:10 000 (Real property map) with national coverage. There is also a terrain map in the scale 1:50 000. The Sweden map in the scale 1:1 000 000 is available as a open downloadable dataset at this url: http://www.lantmateriet.se/Kartor-och-geografisk-information/Kartor/Sverigekartor/Gratis-Sverigekartor/ (the page and license is in Swedish). The other datasets are avaliable as WMS services and you can also order them as datasets from Lantmäteriets, but you can not download them. There is also a scalable webmap with national coverage that is availiable as a WMS and WMT services. These datasets are not open.


24 China
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http://219.238.166.215/mcp/ind... JPG,EPS n/a n/a 55%
24 Malta
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http://www.visitmalta.com/en/m... PDF n/a n/a 55%
24 Isle of Man
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http://www.gov.im/maps/ javascr ... n/a 55%
24 Isle of Man

Crown Copyright 2013 white label frontend to ESRI GIS


24 Ireland
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http://www.osi.ie n/a n/a 55%
24 Ireland

The data are under a cost recovery model much like OS was in the UK.


29 Burkina Faso
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http://www.igb.bf/pagehtm/donn... n/a n/a 50%
29 Burkina Faso

can't see a licence for map data.


30 Slovakia
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https://zbgis.skgeodesy.sk/tkg... n/a n/a 45%
30 Slovakia

Maps are available via interactive portal without means to export data (other than printing to PDF). Thankfully it works with Firefox without need for special plugins. Maps are available in resolutions up to 1:2000 . There is copyright notice at the bottom so "no" is filled for open license.


30 Croatia
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http://geoportal.dgu.hr n/a n/a n/a 45%
30 Israel
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http://www.govmap.gov.il/ HTML n/a 45%
30 Israel

The Data is available but need a consent from the office for being use in other projects. It is replacing an old and disfunctional national map site.


30 Portugal
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http://www.igeo.pt/produtos/ca... n/a n/a n/a 45%
34 Romania
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http://geoportal.ancpi.ro/geop... TIFF, ... n/a 40%
34 Romania

The official institution that produces and collects geographical information regarded as the National Map is the National Agency for Cadastre and Land Registration (ANCPI http://ancpi.ro), which is under the Government of Romania since 2012. At this time, there are NO freely available datasets of any kind for the Romanian territory on the official site of ANCPI. Furthermore, there are no official statements to acknowledge any intentions of making the National Map open data. In 2012, the geo-spatial.org (http://earth.unibuc.ro/) community addressed an open letter to ANCPI, signed by 184 members asking for free access as a downloadable file or through OGC webmapping standards, of a a vector format file of the boundaries of the Romanian municipalities. ANCPI offered to give us the requested dataset, but at the price established through the Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs no. 39/2009, which for the entire Romanian territory, is about 800.000 EURO.Today, the dataset containing the boundaries of the Romanian municipalities is the only dataset available through a visualization service compliant with INSPIRE on the geoportal maintained by ANCPI. (http://geoportal.ancpi.ro/geoportal/catalog/main/aboutGeoportal.page). Not all datasets found in the ANCPI data catalog can be previewed through the geoportal's visualizing service. Freely available geodata can be found on the geo-spatial.org portal. The datasets are available through georeferenced downloadable files or through OGC webmapping standards (http://earth.unibuc.ro/download). The boundaries of the Romanian municipalities are freely available on the webpage of Political Colours of Romania interactively mapped project (http://193.231.187.122/omc/integration-download.html).


34 Costa Rica
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http://www.snitcr.org/ideol/ n/a n/a 40%
34 Costa Rica

This is the map available by the National Register System. However, there is a different dataset from the National University, available in open source in the link: http://www.mapoteca.geo.una.ac.cr/index.php/home.html


34 Indonesia
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http://www.bakosurtanal.go.id/... n/a n/a 40%
34 Indonesia

Official basemap produced by Indonesian government is owned by National Geospatial Agency as a paid product. However, it can be viewed online at http://tanahair.indonesia.go.id/home/webmap/viewer.html?useExisting=1 and can be accessed via REST API.


34 Korea, Republic of
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http://sd.ngii.go.kr:9000/ NGI,SHP n/a 40%
34 Korea, Republic of

Name: National map of Korea Coverage: - Types of general maps: Classification by scale, Classification by purpose (National base map (Topographic map) Map on land use, map on land characteristics, etc. - Geologic map, marine chart, traffic map, tourist map, climatic map, etc.) - Types and Production of Maps Published by the National Geographic Information Institute: Production and details of topographic maps, Production and details of digital maps, Production of numerical topographic maps in 1/1000 scale - More details can be found at http://www.ngii.go.kr/en/contents/contentsView.do?rbsIdx=58"


38 Tunisia
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38 Tunisia

Data is not available online at all.

The Interior Ministry's Open Data website has a map with names of governorates (provinces) and the respective number of delegations for each. But it's not map data as per the indicator's definition.

The map data on this website is from OpenStreetMap. The license is CC-by 3.0 Unported (indicated at the bottom of the website).


38 Greece
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http://gis.ktimanet.gr/wms/ktb... n/a n/a n/a 35%
38 Bermuda
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http://www.bermudamaps.bm/ HTML n/a n/a 35%
38 Hungary
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http://loczy.mfgi.hu/flexviewe... n/a n/a 35%
38 Hungary

More information on mapping in Hungary here: http://lazarus.elte.hu/gb/hunkarta/ica11/hungary2011.pdf


38 Moldova, Republic of
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http://geoportal.md/en/default... n/a n/a n/a 35%
43 Bangladesh
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http://www.sob.gov.bd/#pgprew n/a n/a n/a 30%
43 Singapore
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http://www.sla.gov.sg/htm/ser/... n/a n/a 30%
43 Singapore

The Singapore Lands Agency will provide digitised mapping information, but this is sold and not under an open licence. In addition the SLA make available a mapping API (One Map) similar to Google Maps, but the terms make clear that the mapping information within the API cannot be used elsewhere (see http://www.onemap.sg/home/TermsOfUse.html section 3(b)(i) "you shall not: store, download, archive, print, distribute, reproduce, copy, modify, edit, transmit, upload in any medium or incorporate into any other materials, any of the Site or the Material; or"


43 Taiwan
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43 Czech Republic
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47 South Africa
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47 South Africa

It is not 100% clear whether a permanent location of this map exists. My discussions with the Chief Directorate: National Geo-spatial Information suggest that the data exists and is available on request. Their website was recently hacked and so they were unable to give me a permanent url for the map. Further queries can be referred to Sue Kirschner - skirschner@ruraldevelopment.gov.za


48 Lithuania
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49 Senegal
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49 Senegal

Data are publicly available after one year old and on request Licence marked as unsure because no URL


49 Nepal
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49 Nepal

Data is under SURVEY DEPARTMENT, Ministry of Land Reform and Management Government of Nepal


49 Belgium
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http://ngi.be/NL/NL1.shtm n/a n/a 15%
49 Belgium

Not sure if low-res data can be obtained for free from another source. Brussels region does publish some maps for free: http://www.cibg.irisnet.be/core-business-nl/operationele-departementen/diensten/urbis


49 Bulgaria
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49 Bulgaria

There used to be an institute that compiles very precise maps, but it is now a for-profit company and sells the data: http://debian.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/~rajna/cartographia/products.html There's also a national cadastre that currently compiles data on land geology and ownership, but it hasn't covered the whole country yet: http://www.cadastre.bg/


53 Russian Federation
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53 Russian Federation

The link above: http://maps.rosreestr.ru/PortalOnline/ is a map of cadaster (non-open license) It has NOTHING to do with the National Map (High level map at a scale of 1:250,000 or better (1cm = 2.5km)). Current description completely misrepresent the situation, while mapping data continues to be totally unavailable even for governmental organizations themselves, let alone free.


54 Nigeria
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54 Nigeria

The official website of the National Boundary Commission that should release the digital maps is unavailable.


55 Egypt
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http://www.esa.gov.eg/SellingM... n/a n/a 0%
55 Egypt

Map for Egypt governorates, villages and districts. Historic maps are also available. All maps are available for purchause upon request to the dedicated Authority.


55 Hong Kong
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55 Hong Kong

It is uncertain if the data exists.


55 Saudi Arabia
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55 Saudi Arabia

It is uncertain if this dataset exists.


55 Kenya
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55 Kenya

No map published by the government was found.


55 Serbia
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55 Serbia

The link previously provided (http://www.geomreze.rgz.gov.rs) points at a Google map, not a map published by the Serbian gov.


55 Cyprus
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55 Cyprus

Tourist maps available, and appears some more specific area maps are available, but at a price. No hint at the type of file, although what is available is either PDF of JPEG. On the website it does talk about a digitalised searchable map, but there it appears to not be available to the public on a proactive basis. Appears there are plans for more online content from 2015 onwards.