• California Environmental Catalog
  http://ceres.ca.gov/catalog
• The NSDI Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
  http://130.11.52.178/FGDCgateway.html

Sites with Link Compilations and Search Engines

• GeoCommunity http://www.geocomm.com/
• Guide To Mostly On-line And Mostly Free U.S. Geospatial and Attribute Data http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/hunt/index.html
• CERES: The California Environmental Resources Evaluation System http://ceres.ca.gov
  Contains many online data resources as well as links to or contacts for CA state agencies, NGOs, COGs,...
• EPA List of Spatial Data Sites
  http://www.epa.gov/docs/oppe/spatial.html
• Products Available from the USGS EROS Data Center
  http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/dsprod/prod.html
  Overview of USGS digital data products, some of which is available for download and others which can be ordered online.

• FGDC Metadata Training Calendar
• FGDC Metadata Trainer Self-Registration

Other Links

• GreenWire Greenwire keeps you up-to-speed on the daily environmental and energy policy in the White House, federal agencies, states and courts. Greenwire also includes full coverage of media stories with links to those stories.
  Free Trial For Two Months. Use
  Username: 53816
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• Federal Geographic Data Committee: Framework Survey Data Now Available For States
• ABAG (Association of Bay Area Governments) Data Center
  http://www.abag.ca.gov/abag/overview/datacenter
  COGs (councils of government) can be good sources of data or starting points for locating data. The SANDAG site (San Diego Association of Governments) is one of the best in California. The CERES web site has a complete list of links to CA GOGs.
• BARD: USGS San Francisco Bay Area Regional Database
  http://bard.wr.usgs.gov
  USGS DEMs, DLGs, DRGs, and DOQs for the Bay Area available for free download.
• USGS Lake Tahoe Data Clearinghouse
  http://blt.wr.usgs.gov
  GIS data for the Lake Tahoe Region available for free download.
• USGS Data Available online for Download from the EROS Data Center
  http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html
  Download DEM, DLG and LULC data, much of which is in STDS format. Information on USGS data in SDTS format can be found at the USGS Mid-Continent Mapping Site
• California StateWide Database
  http://www.igs-ucb.caltech.edu/igs/database.html
  California's leading source of political and demographic data. This site features voter registration and voting returns merged to census data for California's Counties, Assembly, Senate and Congressional Districts.
• CA State Land Commission - Free Downloadhttp://www.slc.ca.gov/GIS/DataListing
• CA Dept. of Fish & Game California Gap Analysis Program Data
  http://www.dfg.ca.gov/whdab/gap.htm
• US Fish & Wildlife Service National Wetlands Inventory (NWI)
  http://www.nwi.fws.gov/nwi.htm
  Data available in both DLG and ARC/INFO Export formats.
• ESRI 1995 TIGER Data Online
  http://www.esri.com/data/online/tiger
  TIGER data in Shapefile format for download.
• U.S. Census Demographic Data
  There are a number of websites that provide access to US Census data that can be linked to the TIGER/Line files. A few of these include:
  • U.S. Census Bureau
  • ESRI 1995 TIGER Data Online
    Provides free download of demographic data in a format easy to join to the ESRI TIGER shapefile data.
  • UC Berkeley Social Science & Government Data Library
    FTP access to Census data and TIGER files, as well as a web interface (CENSUS LOOKUP) to the Summary Tape Files (STF 1, 3) and Subject Summary Tape Files (SSTF 2, 3, 5, and 21).

• Teale is a state agency which has gathered geographic and demographic data about the State of California and makes it available by license to interested users. Berkeley has a license to the data, but we have organized our access through the Web site at UCLA. If you are a member of the campus community and wish to use this data, you can contact Katie Frohmberg (katie@library.berkeley.edu) for passwords to the UCLA site. The UCLA Teale web site is:

  http://gisdb.cluster.ucla.edu:3080

  Metadata access for the TealeData Center GIS Library can be found at:

  http://www.gislab.teale.ca.gov/wwwgis/files_html/datalist.html

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