Estonia GIS data sources
- Region
- Northern Europe
- ISO 3166
- EE · EST
- Sources
- 13
- Themes
- 14
- Last verified
Where to download GIS data for Estonia: 13 sources across 14 themes, led by Estonian Land and Spatial Development Board and Estonian Environment Agency. 6 offer vector downloads such as Shapefile, GeoPackage or GeoJSON, 2 cover elevation including LiDAR. 6 are under an open licence. Every link was last checked on 18 Oct 2026.
- Estonia in the LiDAR & elevation atlas National open LiDAR
- Estonia in the aerial & satellite imagery atlas National open imagery
National and OpenStreetMap sources for Estonia
Boundaries & admin 2
Administrative boundary data for every country-
Administrative and settlement division (opens in a new tab)
Download Cost: FreeEstonian Land and Spatial Development Board
Official county, municipality and settlement boundaries, updated monthly.
- Boundaries & admin
Verified
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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
Elevation / DEM 2
Free DEM, LiDAR and elevation data for every country-
Estonian geoportal (opens in a new tab)
Download Cost: FreeMaa- ja Ruumiamet
- Elevation / DEM
- Imagery
- Boundaries & admin
- Addresses & cadastre
Verified
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Elevation data and LiDAR (opens in a new tab)
Download Cost: FreeEstonian Land and Spatial Development Board
National airborne LiDAR point clouds and 1–10 m DEMs updated on a 4-year cycle.
- Elevation / DEM
Verified
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Orthophotos (opens in a new tab)
Download Cost: FreeEstonian Land and Spatial Development Board
Nationwide orthophotos at 20–40 cm with annual coverage of part of the country.
- Imagery
Verified
Census & statistics 1
Census and statistics data for every country-
Statistics Estonia
Census and register statistics by county, municipality and settlement, exportable to CSV.
- Census & statistics
- Population
Verified
Addresses & cadastre 1
Address and cadastral data for every country-
Cadastral data (opens in a new tab)
Download Cost: FreeEstonian Land and Spatial Development Board
Daily-updated cadastral parcel boundaries for the whole country.
- Addresses & cadastre
Verified
Transport 2
Road, rail and transport data for every country-
Estonian Topographic Database (ETAK) (opens in a new tab)
Download Cost: FreeEstonian Land and Spatial Development Board
Vector topographic database at 1:10,000 with buildings, roads, water and land cover.
- Transport
- Hydrology
- Buildings
- Land cover
Verified
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OpenStreetMap extract – Estonia (opens in a new tab)
Download Cost: FreeGeofabrik / OpenStreetMap contributors
Daily OSM extract.
- Transport
- Boundaries & admin
- Hydrology
Verified
Climate & weather 1
Climate and weather data for every country-
Estonian Weather Service (opens in a new tab)
Portal Cost: FreeEstonian Environment Agency
Weather and climate observations and hydrological data.
- Climate & weather
- Hydrology
Verified
Geology 1
Geology data for every country-
Geological Survey of Estonia data (opens in a new tab)
Portal Cost: FreeGeological Survey of Estonia
Bedrock and Quaternary geological maps and borehole data.
- Geology
Verified
Environment 1
Environmental and protected area data for every country-
EELIS – Estonian Nature Information System (opens in a new tab)
Web viewer Cost: FreeEstonian Environment Agency
Protected areas, species sites and Natura 2000 data.
- Environment
Verified
Open data portal 1
Open geospatial data portals for every country-
Estonian open data portal (opens in a new tab)
Portal Cost: FreeGovernment of Estonia
- Open data portal
Verified
Global datasets that cover Estonia
Worldwide and continental layers that include Estonia, useful where national data is missing, restricted or inconsistent across borders.
- Boundaries & admin
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- Open Maps for Europe (EuroGlobalMap, EuroRegionalMap) (opens in a new tab) EuroGeographics · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Eurostat GISCO (opens in a new tab) European Commission (Eurostat) · Provider terms / varies · Free · Verified
- GADM (opens in a new tab) GADM project · Non-commercial only · Free · Verified
- Elevation / DEM
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- ArcticDEM (opens in a new tab) Polar Geospatial Center (University of Minnesota) · Open licence · Free · Verified
- 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
- 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 Land Monitoring Service (opens in a new tab) European Environment Agency · Open licence · Free with registration · Verified
- LUCAS Land Use and Coverage Area frame Survey (opens in a new tab) European Commission (Eurostat) · Provider terms / varies · Free · Verified
- Copernicus Global Dynamic Land Cover (CGLS-LC100) (opens in a new tab) Copernicus Land Monitoring Service · Open licence · Free with registration · Verified
- Buildings
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- 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
- Addresses & cadastre
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- OpenAddresses (opens in a new tab) OpenAddresses · Provider terms / varies · Free with registration · Verified
- Transport
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- BBBike custom OSM extracts (opens in a new tab) BBBike.org · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Geofabrik downloads (opens in a new tab) Geofabrik · Open licence · Free · Verified
- GRIP global roads database (opens in a new tab) PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (GLOBIO) · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Hydrology
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- Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) (opens in a new tab) Copernicus Emergency Management Service / ECMWF · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC) (opens in a new tab) Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG), Germany / WMO · Provider terms / varies · Free · Verified
- HydroBASINS (opens in a new tab) WWF / McGill University (HydroSHEDS) · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Climate & weather
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- ARCO-ERA5 (analysis-ready, cloud-optimised ERA5) (opens in a new tab) Google Research · Open licence · Free · Verified
- CHELSA climatologies (opens in a new tab) Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL · Open licence · Free · Verified
- Copernicus Atmosphere Data Store (CAMS) (opens in a new tab) ECMWF / Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service · Open licence · Free with registration · Verified
- Geology
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- Macrostrat (opens in a new tab) University of Wisconsin–Madison · Open licence · Free · Verified
- OneGeology Portal (opens in a new tab) OneGeology · Provider terms / varies · Free · Verified
- Environment
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- EEA Datahub (opens in a new tab) European Environment Agency · Open licence · Free · Verified
- GBIF occurrence API (opens in a new tab) Global Biodiversity Information Facility · Provider terms / varies · Free with registration · Verified
- Key Biodiversity Areas (opens in a new tab) KBA Partnership / BirdLife International · Non-commercial only · Free with registration · Verified
- Open data portal
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- data.europa.eu (opens in a new tab) Publications Office of the EU · Provider terms / varies · Free · Verified
- Registry of Open Data on AWS (opens in a new tab) Amazon Web Services · Provider terms / varies · Free · Verified
- Humanitarian Data Exchange (opens in a new tab) UN OCHA · Provider terms / varies · 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
- Measuring Lake Mead's shrinking shoreline with Sentinel-2, STAC and Python Intermediate
- Land cover classification in Python: a Sentinel-2 random forest with scikit-learn Intermediate
Neighbouring countries
- Russia GIS data 5 sources · shares a border
- Latvia GIS data 9 sources · shares a border
- Åland Islands GIS data 4 sources
- Lithuania GIS data 8 sources