Armenian official national geoportal maparmenia.am was announced about a year ago but is not available right now, and even when it was available, it needed to be more open, more open data, anyway.

So how to find Armenian geodata, map layers, and other spatial datasets? Here is a list of available open data catalogs:
- VGSE Armenia https://vgse.geology.am Geonode-based geoportal provided by the Institute of Geological Sciences of Armenia. It includes 12 map layers related to geology.
- The Armenian Soil Information System (ArmSIS) https://armsis.cas.am was created by the Armenian National Agrarian University and other research institutions of Armenia by request of the Ministry of Economy. It's Geonode based and provides open API to access 30 data layers.
- Open data portal of Armenia, a part of the Interactive Forest Atlas of Armenia https://data-download-gfw.hub.arcgis.com/ , it's an ArcGIS Hub based open data portal provided by NGO REC Caucasus with government and international geo data about the country with a focus on forestry.
- Geoserver of the Center for Ecological-Noosphere Studies National Academy of Sciences, RA https://og.cens.am:8081/geoserver . This geoportal includes map layers and open geo API: CSW, WFS, WMS, and e.t.c. It uses OS Geo Geoserver open-source software.

Many more spatial data about Armenia are available worldwide, and more to tell about each data catalog mentioned in this post. We will regularly write about them here and add the most exciting datasets to the data.opendata.am data catalog.

If you know any interesting spatial data catalog or spatial dataset related to the Republic of Armenia or Armenian history, please comment.

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