Sources of data:

Wake County GIS

Esri

NC OneMap

USGS’s Breeding Bird Survey

Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s ebird

USGS’s National Map Land Cover

American Fact Finder

TIGER shapefiles

CSIRO

USGS’s Earth Explorer

University sites:

The Master of Geospatial Information Science and Technology (MGIST) program

NCSU Libraries Geospatial (GIS) Data Services

NCSU Center for Geospatial Analytics

Other interesting sites:

International Cartographic Association

Society for Conservation GIS

GeoNet: the Esri Community