Data Regulatory Resource Center
As part of your PODS Membership, you have unlimited access to the PODS Data Resource Center: Additional Datasets and Maps.
Click the links below to visit the homepages for the nationwide or worldwide data resources.
Nearly every government entity nationwide manages GIS data specific to their governing area. As an additional added value to PODS members, this resource center provides thousands of these datasets that may be useful to PODS members.
Benefits of Dataset Links
Data is free to use and managed by government entities.
• Data is live, meaning that as the data owner (such as USDA or the Texas Department of Energy) updates this data, the PODS member immediately sees the updates.
• Data is hosted and published by the data owner over the internet; there is no need for the PODS member to download or copy the data, which would take up room on servers.
• Wide variety of datasets:
o Realtime weather radar/storm data
o Public Lidar data
o Orthophotography
o Emergency Response data for natural disasters (i.e., hurricanes)
• Feature services are compatible with all modern ESRI platform interfaces:
o Add to ArcPro maps
o Add to ArcGIS web applications
o Consumable by geoprocessing tools
o Can be integrated into calculations and notifications
Worldwide and US Nationwide Datasets
FEMA National
Risk Index
NOAA Maps
NOAA Data Access Viewer
US National Weather Service
DOE Energy
Information Administration (EIA) US Energy Atlas
ESRI Living Atlas
Worldwide Links and Layers
Direct Download
of National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD) Geospatial Files
Bureau
of Transportation Statistics Open Data Catalog
Gulf Online Mapping Open Data Platform
State Department of Energy GIS Data Hubs
State Department of Transportation GIS Data Hubs
State Open Data Hubs
State GIS Hubs