Commercial GIS data providers
September 23, 2010 12:19 AM   Subscribe

Recommendations for reputable commercial GIS data providers for international data?

I'm looking for some relatively hard to find GIS data for a project that doesn't seem to be available online, and I want to see what commercial providers have; but its pretty hard to ascertain the quality of their data, and services. Alot of them seem to just re-package / compile public data for business users.

Currently I am looking for Honduras, but I think in the future we will need other countries, so comprehensiveness would be nice.
posted by stratastar to Computers & Internet (6 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Best answer: Can you be specific as far as what GIS data you'd like to use? If it's a commercial source, it's unlikely that one source would have the rights to resell everything. If you're looking for, say, administrative borders, you should know about gaul, Natural Earth, etc.
posted by tmcw at 2:30 AM on September 23, 2010


Best answer: I've had good experiences with DPRA, but that's partly because the local office used to be a GIS data supply bureau before DPRA bought them, and they could pretty much source anything from anywhere, given time and $$.
posted by scruss at 4:06 AM on September 23, 2010


What kind of data do you need? Environmental? Infrastructure? Demographic? Something else?
posted by desjardins at 7:21 AM on September 23, 2010


Response by poster: Infrastructure (including, roads, rails, navigable waterways), Demographic: the smaller the scale the better, geocoded micro-data would be awesome...

Environmental if it includes small scale human footprints (night lights?)...

Right now we're looking at a relatively small non-major state...
posted by stratastar at 8:49 AM on September 23, 2010


Response by poster: In the North (Colon)
posted by stratastar at 8:49 AM on September 23, 2010


Response by poster: and I said small scale but I technically meant large...
posted by stratastar at 8:52 AM on September 23, 2010


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