Course Guide for GIS Classes  

Wildlife
National Atlas - Biology
GAP Analysis Data Sets on CD
NC Game Lands
Bird flyways

Sports
Golf Locales
U.S. Large Area Landmarks - (sports centers, golf courses)
NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate, 2011 - Team level academic performances can be obtained by division, by conference, and by school (numeric data).

Health
North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics (numeric data)
Health Care Facilities

Demographics
Census Data Resources
UNEP Geo Data Portal
LandScan Global Population Database 2008

Land Use Change
National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 1992/2001 Retrofit Land Cover Change Product - Codes
Also on AFS at \afs\isis\data\gis\library\library4\ncchange

Transportation
National Transportation Atlas Database
Drive time to work is available from the Census
U.S. and Canada Detailed Streets

Business Location Data
Select areas in NC (~2007)
ReferenceUSA - Provides current business information, including latitude/longitude coordinates (available in detailed download - 500 download limit).
Follow this tutorial to create a shapefile from latitude/longitude coordinates.

Water Resources
Streams, rivers, water basins - see NC OneMap for NC data
U.S. Rivers and Streams

National Atlas (Water)

Alternative Energy
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Follow "downloading data and tools" link. Data includes:
Biomass, Other (Transmission Line Data - high voltage only), Solar (average solar resource potential), and Wind (Annual average wind resource potential, NC is in the Mid-Atlantic States file)
Energy Stats (not spatial)

Climate
Climate Data - overview of sources
Climate Change Scenarios from NCAR
National Snow and Ice Data Center

Immigration
Immigration Stats (numeric)
Migration Stats (numeric)

Foreign Population
See Census Resources

Fertility Data
UNEP Geo Data Portal

Soils
Available for download from the Soil Data Mart
Also on AFS SSURGO (detailed soils)\afs\isis\data\gis\library\library4\ssurgoNC (by county)
STATSGO (generalized soils) \afs\isis\data\gis\library\library4\statsgoNC
The Soil Data Viewer is installed on the Public GIS machines in Davis Library Reference.

Volcanoes
HAZPAC, An Interactive Map of Pacific Rim Natural Hazards, Population, and Infrastructure
Also available for download here

This guide provides links and search tools to help you find spatial data for your GIS course.  For additional resources related to GIScience, please see the Geography Research Guide. 

Don't know what to do for your GIS project? Use these resources to see what professional GIS users are doing and to identify an issue to spatially analyze for your own project.

Citing Information Tutorial