open data atlas · for SMEs · 17 domains

Find the data that grows your business.

You already run the business. We point you at the free public datasets — satellite, mobility, prices, energy, tenders, health, tourism — that you can turn into a pricing move, a new shop, a cheaper bill or a winning bid. Ask in plain English, get matched data sources.

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§ 00 / examples

What others already built on it

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§ 01 / atlas

All 17 data domains

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17 / 17 domains
01 · HVD

High-Value Datasets

EU-designated open datasets with the highest re-use potential — geospatial, meteorological, statistics, companies, mobility, EO.

geospatial
02 · EO

Earth Observation

Free Sentinel imagery, Landsat archive, MODIS — the petabyte backbone behind agritech, insurance and ESG verification.

geospatial
03 · STAT

Statistical Data

Population, prices, labour, trade — the bedrock for market sizing, pricing models and demand forecasting.

04 · MOB

Transport & Mobility

Real-time traffic, public transport feeds, freight flows. Mix of open NAPs and commercial APIs (TomTom, HERE, Google).

geospatial
05 · ENV

Environment

Air quality, water, biodiversity, weather. Increasingly mandated for ESG and supply-chain due diligence.

geospatial
06 · MKT

Market & Business Analysis

Company registers, financial filings, trade flows, procurement — turn raw filings into intelligence products.

07 · HEALTH

Health Data

Disease surveillance, drug registries, hospital indicators. Heavy regulation but high-value when handled correctly.

08 · IND

Industrial & Manufacturing

Energy prices, PMI indices, raw-material commodities, factory output — the macro signals behind every B2B buying cycle.

09 · AGRI

Agri-Food & Forestry

Crop yields, livestock, prices, fisheries, forest inventories — the supply side of every food, feed, and biomass value chain.

geospatial
10 · TOUR

Tourism & Hospitality

Arrivals, overnights, occupancy, short-term rentals, attractions, search & flight demand — the demand side of every destination economy.

geospatial
11 · CULT

Cultural Heritage

Museum collections, monument registries, historic photographs, archaeological records — Europe's deepest open dataset, mostly already digitised and CC-licensed.

geospatial
12 · ENERGY

Energy

Electricity & gas markets, generation mix, grid flows, renewables capacity, building consumption — the live nervous system of the energy transition.

geospatial
13 · FIN

Finance & Markets

Central-bank rates, FX, sovereign yields, equities, crypto, payments — the world's most-priced data, with deep free tiers if you know where to look.

14 · LANG

Language & NLP

Corpora, lexicons, parallel translations, speech, terminology — the raw material for every LLM, translator, search engine, and voice product.

15 · MEDIA

Media & News

News articles, broadcast metadata, podcasts, social signals, fact-checks — the daily pulse of public discourse, much of it under open or research licences.

16 · SKILL

Skills & Labour Market

Occupations, skills taxonomies, job postings, vacancies, wages, training catalogues — the structured layer behind every HR-tech, ed-tech and workforce-planning product.

17 · BUILD

Construction & Built Environment

Building permits, cadastre, BIM, EPCs, materials prices, infrastructure projects — the full lifecycle of the built environment, from permit to demolition.

geospatial
§ 02 / contribute

Want your dataset on this map?

Suggest a dataset, API or open portal — global, national or municipal. Curated additions appear in the relevant domain with full credit.

data window /want to include your data here?

Run an open data portal, an API, or a niche dataset SMEs would pay attention to?

Submit it below — global, national or municipal. We curate the highest-signal sources per domain and add the best ones to the atlas with full credit and a link back.

  • · Free or freemium APIs preferred
  • · Clear license (CC-BY, ODbL, OGL, etc.)
  • · Documentation in English
By submitting you confirm the dataset is publicly available and you own or are authorised to share its details.