Dominica GIS data sources
- Region
- Caribbean
- ISO 3166
- DM · DMA
- Sources
- 4
- Themes
- 6
- Last verified
Where to download GIS data for Dominica: 4 sources across 6 themes, led by Government of Dominica and World Bank / ITC / CDEMA. 2 offer vector downloads such as Shapefile, GeoPackage or GeoJSON, 1 covers elevation. 1 is under an open licence. Every link was last checked on 18 Oct 2026.
Country atlases
- Dominica in the LiDAR & elevation atlas None known
- Dominica in the aerial & satellite imagery atlas None known
National and OpenStreetMap sources for Dominica
Boundaries & admin 1
Administrative boundary data for every country-
geoBoundaries administrative boundaries (opens in a new tab)
API Cost: FreeWilliam & Mary geoLab
JSON API listing every available admin level with direct download links.
- Boundaries & admin
Verified
Population 1
Gridded population data for every country-
High-resolution population density maps – Dominica (opens in a new tab)
Download Cost: FreeMeta Data for Good / CIESIN (via HDX)
Roughly 30 m gridded population estimates derived from building detection, with age and sex breakdowns.
- Population
Verified
Census & statistics 1
Census and statistics data for every country-
Central Statistics Office (opens in a new tab)
Portal Cost: FreeGovernment of Dominica
National statistics office; census and population statistics.
- Census & statistics
Verified
Natural hazards 1
Natural hazard data for every country-
CHARIM GeoNode (opens in a new tab)
Download Cost: FreeWorld Bank / ITC / CDEMA (CHARIM project)
Hazard, exposure, land-use and elevation layers for Dominica compiled for the Caribbean Handbook on Risk Information Management.
- Natural hazards
- Land cover
- Elevation / DEM
Verified
Global datasets that cover Dominica
Worldwide and continental layers that include Dominica, useful where national data is missing, restricted or inconsistent across borders.
- Boundaries & admin
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- GADM (opens in a new tab) GADM project · Non-commercial only · Free · Verified
- geoBoundaries (opens in a new tab) William & Mary geoLab · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Natural Earth (opens in a new tab) Natural Earth · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Elevation / DEM
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- ALOS World 3D 30 m (AW3D30) (opens in a new tab) JAXA · Open licence · Free with registration · Verified
- Copernicus DEM (GLO-30 / GLO-90) (opens in a new tab) ESA / Airbus (Copernicus) · Open licence · Free · Verified
- ETOPO 2022 Global Relief Model (opens in a new tab) NOAA NCEI · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Imagery
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- AlphaEarth Foundations Satellite Embeddings (annual, COG mirror) (opens in a new tab) Google and Google DeepMind (mirror by Taylor Geospatial on Source Cooperative) · Open licence · Free · Verified
- ASF Data Search (Vertex) (opens in a new tab) Alaska Satellite Facility · Provider terms / varies · Free with registration · Verified
- Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (opens in a new tab) European Space Agency / European Commission · Open licence · Free with registration · Verified
- Land cover
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- Copernicus Global Dynamic Land Cover (CGLS-LC100) (opens in a new tab) Copernicus Land Monitoring Service · Open licence · Free with registration · Verified
- Dynamic World (opens in a new tab) Google / World Resources Institute · Open licence · Free · Verified
- ESA CCI Land Cover (opens in a new tab) European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Buildings
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- Google Open Buildings (opens in a new tab) Google Research · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Google Open Buildings 2.5D Temporal (opens in a new tab) Google Research · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Microsoft Global ML Building Footprints (opens in a new tab) Microsoft · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Population
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- Global Human Settlement Layer (opens in a new tab) European Commission JRC · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Gridded Population of the World (GPWv4) (opens in a new tab) CIESIN, Columbia University / NASA SEDAC · Open licence · Free with registration · Verified
- Kontur Population (opens in a new tab) Kontur · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Census & statistics
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- UNdata (opens in a new tab) UN Statistics Division · Open licence · Free · Verified
- World Bank Open Data (opens in a new tab) World Bank · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Natural hazards
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- Aqueduct Floods Hazard Maps (opens in a new tab) World Resources Institute · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Copernicus Emergency Management Service: rapid mapping (opens in a new tab) European Commission (Copernicus EMS) · Open licence · Free · Verified
- EM-DAT international disaster database (opens in a new tab) CRED, UCLouvain · Non-commercial only · Free · Verified
Tutorials that use this kind of data
- Getting started with GeoPandas: projections, spatial joins and choropleth maps Beginner
- Terrain analysis in Python: stream, clip and analyse a DEM with rasterio and rioxarray Intermediate
- Land cover classification in Python: a Sentinel-2 random forest with scikit-learn Intermediate
- Sentinel-1 SAR flood mapping in Python: the 2022 Pakistan floods Intermediate
Neighbouring countries
- Montserrat GIS data 3 sources
- Saint Lucia GIS data 5 sources
- Antigua and Barbuda GIS data 3 sources
- Saint Kitts and Nevis GIS data 3 sources