atlas

Atlas resources

Boundaries

• administrative regions
  • admin levels:
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_administrative_divisions_by_country
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_division#List
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_administrative_division_name_changes
  • sources:
    • GADM:
      • https://gadm.org/ (the problem with this is that it doesn’t seem to be open source https://gadm.org/about.html)
      • linked data pointing to GADM http://gadm.geovocab.org
      • license: academic use and other non-commercial use
    • GAUL (Global Administrative Unit Layer):
      • http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/metadata.show
      • should be used by United Nations
    • NED:
      • website: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/
      • repo: https://github.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector
    • WIKIDATA query for territorial units “introspection”
• statistical regions
  • Europe
    • LAU (Local Administrative Units): https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/nuts/local-administrative-units
    • TERCET (territorial typologies): https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/nuts/tercet-territorial-typologies
    • NUTS

      • download page:

        • https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/administrative-units-statistical-units/nuts
        • api/permalinks: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/GISCO/distribution/v2/nuts/

      • WIKIDATA query

      • SEMICeu (geojson): https://github.com/SEMICeu/NUTS_pilot/tree/master/datasets

      • NUTS documentation (EUROSTAT)

      • NUTS history

        
  • UK
    • Hierarchy of UK statistical regions
    
• postcodes:
  • Geonames: http://www.geonames.org/postal-codes/

Coordinate systems

• https://epsg.io/
• https://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/?page=1
• ISO Geodetic Registry: https://geodetic.isotc211.org/

Schema, ontologies and Linked Open Data

• ISO TC 211 (Geographic technology standard models & schemas):
  • wesite: https://www.isotc211.org/
  • Github repo for ontologies: https://github.com/ISO-TC211/ontologies
  • Geolexica website (Multi-Lingual Glossary of Terms): https://www.geolexica.org/
  • Terminology: https://github.com/ISO-TC211/TMG
  • (+ they have XML Schemas and UML Models links on the website)
  • page with all standards by ISO/TC 211 (Geographic information/Geomatics)
• Geonames:
  • docs: http://www.geonames.org/ontology/documentation.html
  • dump: http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/
  • list of features: http://www.geonames.org/statistics/total.html (the section "Administrative", A.* seems relevant)
• list of geographical ontologies: https://lov.linkeddata.es/dataset/lov/vocabs?&tag=Geography
• Ontologies in the Geographic Information Sector: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226648438_Ontologies_in_the_Geographic_Information_Sector
• GADM schema: https://gadm.org/metadata.html
• GML: https://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gml
• Very good review of the landscape, that we can use as a base to lay down (or adopt) a geo ontology I think: http://www.smartopendata.eu/sites/default/files/SmartOpenData%20D3.%201%20Review%20of%20geographic%20resources%20metadata%20and%20related%20metadata%20standards.pdf
• NUTS vocabulary: https://lod-cloud.net/dataset/nuts-geovocab
• NUTS LOD (EUROSTAT): https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/nuts/linked-open-data
• wikidata:
  • wikidata ontology: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Ontology
  • wikidata classes: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Ontology/Classes
  • mapping with external ontologies: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Ontology/Mapping
  • modelling: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Ontology/Modelling
• https://lod-cloud.net/clouds/geography-lod.svg: Geonames and DBPedia seem the 2 more connected endpoints
• OpenStreetMap
  • schema: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm2pgsql/schema
  • tags: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/

Geoportals and infrastructure

• ONS: http://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/
• List of GIS data sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GIS_data_sources#Global
• List of geoportals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoportal#List_of_geoportals
• EUROSTAT data portal: https://data.europa.eu/
• INSPIRE:
  • About: https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/about-inspire/563
  • Data specifications: https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/data-specifications/2892
  • Geoportal: https://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/
  • Training: https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/portfolio/training-library
  • Geospatial Knowledge Base (GKB) Training Platform https://www.geo-train.eu/
• ArcGIS Servers:
  • Types of services: https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/server/latest/publish-services/windows/what-types-of-services-can-you-publish.htm
  • Geodatabase design: https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/geodatabases/an-overview-of-geodatabase-design.htm
  • ICACI: Guidelines of Best Practice for the Acquisition, Storage, Maintenance and Dissemination of Fundamental Geo‐Spatial Datasets (PDF)

Standardization bodies

• ISO TC 211: comittee website
• OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium): https://www.ogc.org/
• ICACI (International Cartographic Association):
  • website: https://icaci.org/
  • standards: https://wiki.icaci.org/index.php?title=Standards