The Colorado School of Mines has a site license for Esri products including ArcPRO and ArcMap for desktop. This software may be accessed from any campus lab computer.
QGIS is an open-sourced GIS that is free to download. It is a robust package.
Colorado Data:
- Colorado Information Marketplace (CIM) by state of Colorado. CIM is not only a place to discover GIS data, it is also a gateway for other non-geospatial data and information produced by state agencies of Colorado.
- Colorado Data Engine -- an open-source hub that unlocks neighborhood-scale public data in a standardized, geolocated format.
- GIS Colorado -- various infrastructure layers including transportation and broadband
- GeoLibrary -- hundreds of datasets. Site by University of Colorado, Boulder.
- Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT)
- Denver Regional Council of Governments (DrCOG) data -- a repository of open data that supports communities in making informed, data-driven decisions in areas including mobility, land use, and changing demographics. Includes LiDAR data, boundaries, etc.
- Denver Open Data Catalog -- from the City of Denver
- Jefferson County, Colorado GIS products
- Bureau of Land Management, Colorado
U.S. Data:
Worldwide GIS links:
General GIS links:
GIS/spatial-base research:
- Center for Spatial Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara -- The Center's mission is to engage in interdisciplinary research and education in how people and technology solve spatial problems in the natural and social sciences, as well as in engineering, the humanities, and the arts.
- Center for Spatial Data Science at the University of Chicago -- The Center for Spatial Data Science (CSDS) addresses research questions where location represents an important dimension of the research problem. Application areas include a range of substantive fields where space matters, such as economic geography, environmental economics, sociology, criminology, public health, and other social sciences. The site includes data regarding public health.
GIS education and lessons:
- QGIS training FREE. Basic training and in-depth modules. Open sourced materials.
- Esri training for ARC products. Some of these modules are free.
- FREE "A complete first course in Modern Web-based GIS" by Joseph Kerski, PhD, GISP, Geographer – Education Manager at Esri. "Modern Web-based GIS embraces the web GIS platform and paradigm, and includes data as services, field apps that can be crowdsourced, communicating with web mapping applications such as story maps, coding and scripting, symbolizing, classifying, performing spatial analysis, and other components of the web infrastructure as manifested in ArcGIS Online."
- Joseph Kerski -- Esri training and education guru. He posts numerous texts and videos regarding teaching GIS.