20 sources · HDRI, terrain, geodata
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Dutch national height map built from airborne lidar, with raster grids (0.5 m and 5 m) and point clouds, downloadable per map sheet through PDOK. Excellent for flat polder and urban terrain. Marked needs-review: the A…
Epic's free sample project showing how the city from The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience was built: a full city with buildings, drivable vehicles and MetaHuman-based crowds, demonstrating World Partition…
Radar DSM ~30 m (TanDEM-X / WorldDEM lineage) via CDSE. Full, Free & Open licence for WorldDEM-30: free reproduction, distribution, public communication, and adaptation worldwide. Prefer over FABDEM (NC — high-risk).
Epic's free sample project from the Electric Dreams demo shown at GDC 2023 alongside Unreal Engine 5.2. It is a jungle environment built from a handful of Quixel Megascans assets and populated with the Procedural Cont…
10 m global land-cover maps (2020/2021) + annual Sentinel composites. Good for biome masks, foliage density, and procedural biome painting — not a heightmap.
NOAA global relief model integrating topo + bathy (15″ / 30″ / 60″; ice-surface and bedrock). Handy single grid for planet views and tsunami-style water sims. Not for navigation.
Global ocean + land terrain model (~15″). Best free bathymetry source for undersea levels, coastal games, and planet-scale heightmaps. Not for navigation.
Global ~30 m DSM from ALOS/PRISM. Free for commercial and non-commercial use under JAXA research-data terms — © JAXA credit required; notify JAXA in advance for commercial use. Optical DEM — cloud/snow voids possible.…
~1.4B ML-detected building footprints (many with height estimates) from Bing Maps imagery. Useful for city kits, proxy LOD0 buildings, and OSM gap-fill — not as a ToS-safe Google/Bing mesh scrape.
Full-sky star map built from 1.7 billion stars (Hipparcos-2, Tycho-2, Gaia DR2), supplied as linear half-float OpenEXR in plate carree projection from 4k up to 64k wide. A strong source for a space skybox. Marked need…
~30 m global land DEM reprocessed from SRTM (+ ASTER/AW3D30 void fills). Strong default heightmap for continents when you want clearer voids than raw SRTM. Free Earthdata login for download.
Finnish national 2 m elevation grid from the National Land Survey (Maanmittauslaitos), released as open data under CC BY 4.0. Good for realistic northern lake, forest and fell terrain at a resolution far above the glo…
Public-domain vector + raster map data at 1:10m / 1:50m / 1:110m (coastlines, admin, physical). Ideal for stylized world maps, UI globes, and low-detail terrain masks — not high-res heightfields.
Second CC0 HDRI publisher besides Poly Haven. Real-world captured unclipped linear 32-bit EXRs (library claims up to 29K). Author Grzegorz Wronkowski also runs HDRMaps; this catalog uses the Open HDRI CC0 grant, not a…
Global geodata under ODbL. Compiled games are usually “Produced Works” (binary not copylefted); redistributing a modified database can trigger share-alike. Credit OSM contributors. Related converter: OSM2World.
NSF-backed portal for lidar point clouds and DEMs (US, global SRTM-class, country-wide 1 m sets). This is the access layer, not one license. Citations page: hosted data are "free of all copyright restrictions" and ava…
Open map dataset (buildings, roads, places, administrative divisions, base land and water, addresses) conflated from many sources. It is convenient for generating city layouts, but there is no single licence: each the…
Photometrically oriented CC0 HDRIs (up to 8K), seamless PBR textures, and environment models. Top safe pick for IBL/sky lighting versus unmoderated aggregators.
High-precision bare-earth terrain model of Switzerland at 0.5 m or 2 m grid spacing, delivered in 1 km tiles. Alpine relief at this detail is rare in free data. It falls under swisstopo's open government data (OGD) te…
Official USGS/EROS portal for Landsat, SRTM, and other Earth archives. USGS-authored scientific content is U.S. public domain — strong source for SRTM/3DEP-style heightmaps and satellite textures. Expect GIS reproject…