Africa

Parts of the world will become virtualized as time and people arise to tackle them. If you are working on any particular location and are willing to be listed here, please let us know!

CARPE Products at the University of Maryland
- CARPE, the Central African Regional Program for the Environment, works with Basin states including Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, and Sao Tome e Principe
- has lots of vector data, climate and population info, vegetation zones
commercial vendor: ComputaMaps The source for African geospatial data
- DEMs available: all of Africa at 500m, or South Africa at 100m / 50m / 20m / 5m
- AfricaCD ($1000) includes land use, roads, cities, and boundaries for the continent in GIS formats

Algeria
- Orthocoverage Downloads includes free samples of good data (15m greyscale image, 15m elevation) for a small area in Algeria
Botswana
- there is a beautiful cloud-free true color 250m image in the MODIS gallery
Egypt
- the Digital Egypt project at CASA/UCL includes some 3D models
- Orthocoverage Downloads includes a free sample of good data (15m greyscale image, 15m elevation) for a small area in Egypt
Ethiopia
- the Virtual Heritage Lab of CNR-ITABC has built interactive virtual models of the archaeological sites of Aksum, Ethiopia
- Orthocoverage Downloads includes a free sample of good data (15m greyscale image, 15m elevation) for a small area in Ethiopia
Madagascar
- Orthocoverage Downloads includes a free sample of good data (15m greyscale image, 15m elevation) for two small areas in Madagascar
Mauritania
- Orthocoverage Downloads includes a free sample of good data (15m greyscale image, 15m elevation) for two small areas in Mauritania
Morocco
- there is a beautiful nearly-cloud-free true color 250m image in the MODIS gallery
Nigeria
- Aerial-View Solutions is the distributor for DigitalGlobe, GeoEye, ASTRIUM and ALOS in Nigeria.
South Africa