#GeoRodeo Resources Talk

Data Sources

Natural Earth Shapefile downloads for cultural and physical data sets for the entire earth.
US Census Shapefiles and KML files for US shapes.
GeoCommons Esri community site that makes it easy to share geodata. Reliability may vary!
GeoNames Contains over 10 million geographical names. Free to use and download.
Wikimedia Commons Tons of maps in SVG format. Easy to edit and customize for yourself.

GetLatLon As simple as it gets. Search for an address, drag the map. Get a latitude/longitude point.
Ogre - ogr2ogr web client Hand it a SHP, get back some GeoJSON. Hand it some GeoJSON, get back a SHP.
Geo for Google Docs Google Apps Script for doing geocoding within a Google Spreadsheet. Very handy!
Mapshaper Simplify a SHP in your browser. Will crumble on very large files.
geojson.io Edit or create a GeoJSON file on the fly.
epsg.io Plug in a location, get back a coordinate system.
geocod.io $ Cheap bulk geocoding. First 2,500 per day are free.
Landline + Stateline Landline is a JavaScript library that creates SVG maps from GeoJSON. It comes with Stateline, which makes creating responsive U.S. state and county maps easy.

csvkit Powerful tool written in Python that let's you manipulate JSON and CSV data.
- in2csv Convert a GeoJSON file to CSV.
- csvjson Convert a CSV file to GeoJSON.
OpenRefine Make programmatic changes to datasets.
- Geocoding Hook it up to a geocoding endpoint and do mass geocodings!
GDAL You probably know about GDAL.
- ogr2ogr Everyone's favorite ogre dating service. Command line interface for data conversions and joining.
Shapely Manipulate and analyze geometric objects in Python.
Fiona API written in Python for OGR methods.
Rasterio Clean and fast and geospatial raster I/O for Python programmers.
QGIS Don't wanna pay for ArcGIS, but want similar functionality? Here you go.
TopoJSON An extension to GeoJSON written by Mike Bostock (of d3 fame) that encodes topology, and make crazy small text representations of geodata.
datamaps A tool for indexing large lists of geographic points or lines and dynamically generating map tiles from the index for display. (I know nothing about it.)

Google Geocoding API $ Many caveats with Google's service. Probably will need to pay. Definitely has to be on a Google Map, or you break the TOS.
Yahoo! BOSS Geo Services $ Doesn't have to use Yahoo! Maps (thankfully), but does require payment.
Mapquest Open Geocoding API Based on Nominatim. Definitely the weakest, but also the free-est. Make sure to double check the results!
Mapbox Geocoding Mapbox's in-house geocoding tool. They'd like you to ask permission before using it!