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Geographic Data

Mathematica has built-in access to large volumes of carefully curated and continually updated geographic data, including both socioeconomic and related data, as well as geospatial data. In addition, Mathematica has sophisticated built-in geodetic capabilities and can read standard geospatial data interchange formats.

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How to: Use Curated Data How to: Import and Export

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Reference Reference

CountryData — hundreds of properties for countries and other entities

"Population" ▪ "GDP" ▪ "Flag" ▪ "Polygon" ▪ "BorderingCountries" ▪ "InternetHosts" ▪ "OilReserves" ▪ "LifeExpectancy" ▪ ...

CityData — properties of cities worldwide

"Population" ▪ "Coordinates" ▪ "Elevation" ▪ "Country" ▪ ...

Geodesy »

FromDMS ▪ DMSString ▪ DMSList

GeoDistance — great circle distance between two latitude, longitude points

GeoPosition ▪ GeoGridPosition ▪ GeodesyData ▪ GeoProjectionData

Importing Geospatial Data »

Import — import data maintaining symbol structure, annotations, etc.

"SHP" ▪ "SDTS" ▪ "USGSDEM" ▪ "TIGER" ▪ "SP3" ▪ ...

Additional Data »

WeatherData ▪ FinancialData ▪ AstronomicalData ▪ ...

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