This geoportal connects users to digital geospatial resources, including GIS datasets, web services, and digitized historical maps from multiple data clearinghouses and library catalogs. The interface offers both text and place based search options, and item pages display descriptive metadata records along with external links to download, view, or read more about the resources. This site is solely an aggregator and does not host any data. Read more about the Geospatial Data Discovery Project here.

This project is collectively managed by librarians and geospatial specialists at 14 research institutions from across the Big Ten Academic Alliance including:

• Indiana University Bloomington
• Michigan State University
• Ohio State University
• Pennsylvania State University
• Purdue University
• Rutgers University-New Brunswick
• University of Chicago
• University of Illinois at Urbana­-Champaign
• University of Iowa
• University of Maryland
• University of Michigan
• University of Minnesota (host institution)
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• University of Wisconsin-­Madison
• Northwestern University

The geoportal is built with Geoblacklight, a multi-institutional open-source collaboration for finding and sharing geospatial data. The technical infrastructure for the project is provided by the University of Minnesota Libraries Web Development department.

Visit the project wiki for developer getting started documentation.

B1G Geoportal Version v5.11.0 / GeoBlacklight v4.4.0 / GeoBlacklight Admin v0.4.1 (develop branch)