Catalogue of GIS Data for Educators

Finding the accurate information that we need for our GIS project or class sometimes might me challenging. As any search engine, its key to know which are the key terms that should be used to find the best available information, as well as filter and customization on the search process so the lookup is more straight forward towards the objective.

• Demographics
  •  Resident Population 
  •  Population density  
  •  Average Household Size 
  •  2021 Australian Census - Community Profile 
  •  Health 
  •  Dominant Malaria Mosquito Vector 
  •  P. falciparum distribution  
  •  Education 
  •  Purchasing Power 
• Boundaries
  •  World countries 
  •  States 
  •  Brisbane Suburbs 
  •  Indigenous Lands 
• Infrastructure
  •  Roads 
  •  Railway Stations 
  •  Agricultural Crops 
  •  Amenities 
  •  All Airports and Heliports 
  •  Major airports 
  •  Major seaports 
• Environment
  •  Land Cover 
  •  Protected Areas 
  •  Soil Types 
  •  Seafloor Geomorphology 
  •  Species distribution 
  •  Temperature 
  •  Desertification 
  •  Operating Mines 
  •  Ocean Currents 
  •  Sea Temperature 
  •  Precipitation 
  •  Moisture 
  •  Wind direction or Wind speed .
  •  Average Wind (AURIN) 
  •  Solar Atlas 
  •  Digital Elevation Models (DEM) 
  •  Bathymetry  
  •  Rivers 
  •  Fire 
  •  Earthquakes 
  •  Volcanoes 
  •  Global Biomes 
  •  Tectonic Plate boundaries 
• Energy
  •  Oil and gas Pipelines Australia 
  •  Major Power Stations 
  •  Mine Areas Australia 

To tailor a bit more your search you can use filters on your search by limiting the GIS data lookup to a certain extent by pressing the button: “Only show content within map area” (ex. Just info in Australia, just in Queensland or in Brisbane) or by the other layer attributes such as the item type, the modification date among others.

An example has been done using the GIS Layer:  World Countries .

1. Select the layer that you would like to filter, click on the filter icon next to the change style button, highlighted in red in the image below.

2. Click on add expression, select the field that you want to filter by (Country Name in this case), select and expression (is, is not, includes, expression may vary depending on the data type) con and then select the value that you want to be represented.

3. When you are happy with your expression(s) click on apply filter. After this, just the remaining values after the filter application will render in the map. In this case would be just Australia above all the other countries.

1. Select the layer that you would like to filter, click on the filter icon on the right pane below to the change style button, highlighted in red in the image below.

2. Click on add expression, select the field that you want to filter by (Country Name in this case), select and expression (is, is not, includes, expression may vary depending on the data type) con and then select the value that you want to be represented.

3. When you are happy with your expression(s) click on Save. After this, just the remaining values after the filter application will render in the map. In this case would be just Australia above all the other countries.

•  Australian Government Open Data 
•  Geoscience Australia 
•  TROVE Australia - Search Engine 
•  National Map 
•  ANZLIC - The Spatial Information Council 
•  Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) 
•  Australia Interactive Maps online 
•  Australian Bureau of Statistics 
•  Atlas of Living Australia 
•  Australian Local Shire & Council Open Data 
•  Research Data Australia (RDA) 
•  CSIRO Data Access Portal 
•  Digital Atlas of Australia 
•  National Native Tile Tribunal Maps 
•  PSMA Geocoded National Address File (G- NAF) 
•  Location Information Knowledge (LINK) Platform 
•  Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) 
•  Australian Cyclone and Earthquake Hazard mappers 
•  National Environmental Monitoring Sites 
•  OzCoasts: Australian Online Coastal Information 
•  PacificMap 
•  Species distribution 
•  Mapping Sciences Institute Australia (MSIA) 
•  Geospatial Council of Australia 
•  Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG) 
•  Geological Society of Australia