Datasets for Aerialod

An interactive path tracing renderer for Windows

Download sample files here

This page contains datasets for following along with my Aerialod videos. See below where you can download all the files in one zipped folder, or one by one. If you're looking for quick QGIS tips, check out my Map Academy channel on YouTube. If your computer is taking a long time to render images in Aerialod then try the Ben Nevis files below that say '(small file)' in the link name. Aerialod performs best on more powerful computers with high quality graphics cards.

Data sources

I use free and open data for my Map Academy training courses. For my YouTube videos, this is where I got the data from. I've also added a few other sources that you might find useful.

  1. Ordnance Survey - open data for Great Britain.
  2. Defra (England) - download lidar and other data here.
  3. Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo) - one of the best websites of its kind in the world. Loads of amazing data here for Aerialod.
  4. OpenTopography - great website that serves as a kind of clearning house for topography data from all over the world. Type SRTM into the search box if you're looking for NASAs global terrain data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
  5. Scottish Remote Sensing Portal - yes I am biased but Scotland really is a great country for Lidar data, because of the terrain and the quality and coverage of the data.
  6. Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) - I think this might just be the best geodata portal in the world, so check it out if you want to make terrain models with great data.
  7. WorldPop (population density) - want to map population density for your country? Try this amazing data source.
  8. GHSL (population density) - looking for global population density data? Then check out the Global Human Settlement Layer from the European Commission.