Soil Geographic Databases – Home Page

Providing information on the soils of the world is an enormous task and continuing challenge for ISRIC — World Soil information. ISRIC collects, harmonizes and publishes global soil geographic information, whereas many national, regional, local and NGO organizations provide soil information specific to their area and according to their procedures and standards. This page is a catalogue of digital soil resources available outside our organisation.

This set of pages attempts to catalogue all freely-downloadable primary soils information, other than ISRIC-produced information, usable in a GIS either as ‘points’, lines, polygons or grids (‘rasters’). It (mostly) does not include scans or images, because they can’t be used in a GIS without digitizing.

Looking for ISRIC’s data products? Click here. These include the SoilGrids 250m predictive maps of soil properties and classes, their generalizations to 1km and 5km resolutions, the WoSIS Soil Profile Database, and the WISE v3.1 harmonized Global Soil Profile Dataset, as well as many products from continental (Africa, Europe), national, regional and project studies.

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Last update: Tue Nov 18 08:32:58 2025