Find Geospatial Vector Data

Find and download geospatial vector (point, line, or polygon) data using resources such as the ones in these tables. For information about supported file formats, see the readgeotable function.

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Resource	Provider	Examples of Products and Data Sets
The National Map Download Application	US Geological Survey (USGS)	USGS National Boundary Dataset
Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) Basemap Shapefiles	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)	Canada provincial boundaries (data link), Mexico state boundaries (data link)
Geography Program	US Census	TIGER/Line shapefiles and geodatabases, cartographic boundary files
Data.gov	US General Services Administration	Agriculture, climate, energy, local government
NOAA Shoreline Website	NOAA	US coastlines, historical data
Shoreline / Coastline Resources	NOAA and National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)	Global Self-Consistent Hierarchical High-Resolution Geography (GSHHG) (read using the gshhs function)