Free GIS data sources for INDIA

1.	Natural Earth (www.naturalearthdata.com) It is a public domain global map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. This portal is designed to meet the needs of the GIS users and cartographers. Map datasets consist of both vector data (attributes assigned) in the ESRI shapfile format and raster data comes in TIFF format with a TFW world file. All data use the WGS 1984 Geographic Coordinate System (GCS). Data download link: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/
2.	International Steering Committee for Global Mapping ISCGM (www.iscgm.org) The ISCGM is conducting the Global Mapping Project to develop and provide “Global Map” data set which is defined as “a group of geographical data sets of known and verified quality, with consistent specifications which will be open to the public”. But to download these data, free registration into this portal is mandatory. Following types of data are available for various countries (enjoy our country INDIA is also listed there) and regions here: Vector data in SHP, GML or VPF format: administrative boundary, transportation, drainage, population etc. Raster data in BIL format: elevation, vegetation, land cover and land use data. Data download link: https://www.iscgm.org/gmd/
3.	DIVA-GIS (www.diva-gis.org/) DIVA-GIS is a free computer program for mapping and geographic data analysis. They also provide free spatial data for the whole world that you can use in DIVA-GIS or other GIS programs. Category of Data: Country Level Global Level Administrative areas, Inland water, roads, railroads, elevation, land cover, population, and gazetteer ( all are in vector format) data. Global country boundaries, Global climate data, global 90 meter resolution elevation data and High resolution satellite images (LandSat) (apart from boundaries, all are in raster format). Data download link: http://www.diva-gis.org/Data/
4.	GeoCommunity (www.geocommunity.com) The GeoCommunity is the place for the GIS, CAD, Mapping, and Location-Based industry professionals, enthusiasts, and students to gather. It provides many useful GIS resources, one of them is the GIS Data Depot – is the place on the web to download free data for use with your GIS or CAD software. The GIS data sources (both vector and raster) for our country INDIA in this site is http://data.geocomm.com/catalog/IN/datalist.html.