We’ve just rolled out our first major new feature to indiemapper. Starting today, all indiemapper and indiemapper lite users will have integrated access to world thematic data. We know that finding geographic data and loading it in indiemapper has been a challenge for many of our users. This is just our first step in making the data processes of indiemapper easier for you.

When you load indiemapper, you’ll notice a new tab on our open screen:

This tab will take you to our new data library, populated with thematic data from the UNEP Geo Data Portal. We’ve assembled the data into 10 major themes. Within those themes are attributes described in the detailed section. To get the data into your map, just select your theme and click “Open.”

If you’d like to browse all the data themes and attributes at once, have a look at our Google Spreadsheet data inventory. We’ll be adding more data over time so check back often. If you have a suggestion about what we should add, you can submit a request by emailing support@indiemapper.com.

Bonus Map

Just for kicks, I took 3 minutes and threw together this bivariate choropleth map showing CO2 emissions per GDP and GDP growth rate. Look at all the low-emissions growth in South America and Africa compared to North America. Europe’s economy isn’t growing, but they’re not creating much CO2 either.

Want to make your own modifications to the map? Download the IMP.

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