Exercise 4 hints
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Read a few useful additional hints about what to consider when creating maps `from this post <https://www.gislounge.com/ten-things-to-consider-when-making-a-map>`_.

Consider looking for some interesting datasets from various Estonian data portals:

- the `Estonian Geoportal <https://geoportaal.maaamet.ee/>`_
- the Estonian Statistics Board data portal: `Statistics Estonia <https://estat.stat.ee/StatistikaKaart/VKR>`_
- the Estonian registry for environmental data: `Keskkonnaregister <http://register.keskkonnainfo.ee/envreg/>`_
- `Estonian Open Data Portal <https://opendata.riik.ee/>`_
- `datasets from Kaggle <https://www.kaggle.com/datasets>`_
- the `GEOSS Geoportal <https://www.geoportal.org/>`_

More global data portal:

- `European Union Open Data Portal (EU ODP) <https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/home>`_
- `INSPIRE Geoportal <http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/>`_
- `CUAHSI List of Water Data Portals <https://www.cuahsi.org/data-models/portals>`_
- `Arctic SDI Geoportal <https://geoportal.arctic-sdi.org/>`_
- `Koordinates spatial data platform <https://koordinates.com/>`_
- `ESA Open Data Main page <http://open.esa.int>`_ and `ESA Earth Data Catalog <https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/data-access/browse-data-products>`_
- `NASA Open Data Main Page <https://open.nasa.gov/open-data/>`_ and `NASA Data Catalog <https://data.nasa.gov/>`_
- `GDI-DE Geoportal.de Germany <http://www.geoportal.de/EN/Geoportal/geoportal.html?lang=en>`_
- `Geoland.at Austria <http://www.geoland.at>`_
- `Swiss Topo Switzerland <https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/>`_
- `OneGeology Projekt <http://www.onegeology.org>`_
- `US Govt Open Data <https://www.data.gov/>`_
- `New Zealand Land Information data portal <https://data.linz.govt.nz/>`_