Happy GIS Day! Here's some Arizona GIS Data Sites

Today is National GIS Day! (at least it was when I originally posted it)

CADsoft Consulting's CAD Camp 2009 is well underway. We had a very successful Architectural/BIM day yesterday, and the Civil day is in full swing. Tomorrow will be the Geospatial Day (so it doesn't interfere with any GIS Day activities). This morning we've had a presentation from Autodesk's Civil 3D maven, Lucy Kuhns, and our own Ron Coulliard is doing a workshop on grading as I type. During Lucy's presentation, I was asked about local Arizona GIS data, so I promides to share some of the sites I use/am aware of. The list is by no means exhaustive, and there's some dupplication within the sites, but here you go anyway. I'll continue to identify sites I run across in the future. If you've got some good ones you want to share, add them to the comments or email to me and I'll add them to the list.

GIS Data Sites for Arizona

Arizona State Cartographer's Office
They maintain the Arizona GeoServer, with aerial photos and statewide features served through web mapping services (WMS) and web feature services (WFS). They also maintin links to other data sources throughout the state

The AGIC (Arizona Geographic Information Council) GeoData Portal
AGIC is a state sponsored group working with GIS across the state. They sponsor an annual GIS educational conference every year. We just finished the 2009 conference in Tucson. There was great attendance. I presented 3 hands on worksops this year. They have County boundaries, tribal boundaries, cities, wilderness areas, political boundaries, voting districts, school districts, census information, environmental and natural resource data, interstates and roads

US Fish and Wildlife
USFW maintains larger scale data sets covering National Wetlands Inventory and area boundaries

U of A Library
The U of A Libraries maintains the Arizona Electronic Atlas and the Arizona Regional Image Archive (ARIA) as well as links to other data sites

ASU
The ASU Libraries also has spatial data and links available

ADEQ
Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) has water quality data, surface, drinking and groundwater

Local division sites

Maricopa County
The County Assessor's Office GIS Department maintains data for the county including parcels, detailed topographic data, floodplains, and survey network.

Pima County
Pima County is really one of the long runners in GIS. They have had data available for as long as anyone in the state. They maintain over 273 data layers in ESRI shape files as well as landbase section maps in AutoCAD format.

City of Phoenix
Phoenix has an extensive collection of GIS data. They have Engineering Quarter-Section maps in DXF format CAD files

Nationally-based sites

US Forest Service

FEMA
The Federal Emergency Management Agency maintains flood hazard data sets which are available as GIS data sets or through a Web Mapping Service (WMS)

NSGIC
The National States Geographic Information Council maintains an inventory of data and its currency in the Ramona GIS Inventory. Arizona's page is here:

Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
The NRCS maintains the Soil Data Mart with soil data available by state. They also collect other data such as water supply and snowpack

United States Geological Servey (USGS)
The USGS maintains large scale data sets for the US. They have digitial orthoquads and photos, land cover, elevation model and other data sets.

US Census Bureau
The Census maintains census and popluation data for the US

United States Department of Agriculture

USDA has Forest Coverage

Geography Network
The Geography Network maintains various spatial data sets for the US

ESRI Geoportal Extension
ESRI has a beta site with downloadable GIS data

National Center for Atmospheric Research
Atmospheric data for the US


New Mexico

Lucy Kuhns mentioned the New Mexico Resource GIS program site. Here's the link:
http://rgis.unm.edu/