Global Administrative Areas (GADM)

Description

GADM is a database of the location of the world's administrative areas (boundaries). Administrative areas in this database include: countries, counties, departments, etc. and cover every country in the world. For each area it provides some attributes, foremost being the name and in some cases variant names.

Visitors to the GADM website can download administrative boundaries for individual counties or they can download admin boundaries for the entire world. The Geospatial Centre only has available from it's server the administration boundaries for the entire world.

In May 2014, the Geospatial Centre acquired GADM data (Version 2.0 (January 2012).

Spatial reference and data type

The data are in Esri shapefile and geodatabase format.

Data access

To request this data, please fill out the Ask-Us form and include which layers (shapefiles) you are interested in obtaining. The dataset will be shared with you via OneDrive upon completion of the data release agreement form. You may also make an in-person appointment using the same form. The data can also be downloaded from the the GADM website.

Use restrictions/licensing/copyright

This data are provided for personal use for academic, research, and/or teaching purposes. Geospatial Centre staff will ask patrons to read and sign a data release agreement before these licensed data can be released. The University of Berleley, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and the International Rice Research Institute by Robert Hijmans, Nell Garcia, Julian Kapoor, Anrel Rala, Aileen Maunahan, and John Wieczorek must be acknowledged on any derivative product, whether printed or electronic, including for example, a printed map, a raster or vector graphic, a web-based application, etc. Patrons are advised to fully respect the provisions of Canada's Copyright Act as well as terms and conditions imposed by the data provider.