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Identifying GIS data sources

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Identifying GIS data sources

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Government agencies, private data vendors, and even nonprofits have been sharing GIS data for decades. Using freely available, trusted data is how you populate a brand-new GIS. Much of that data is shared out on a data hub. A hub is the central part of a wheel from which the spokes rotate. The term is now used to describe the effective center of activity or the center of a network. The GIS data world has a hub like that, the ArcGIS Open Data Hub. That's where you start when you're looking for GIS data. Governments and other organizations all over the world have shared their GIS data out in this open data hub. Want to get GIS data that shows the location of all the cemeteries in Texas? Search the data hub for Texas Cemeteries and either download the data or just copy the URL and add it to your map as a service. Now, not every organization shares their data in the ArcGIS Hub. Many prefer to share it with you directly from their own hub or even just on their website. In the United…

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