This basemap was designed with the Vizzuality team for use in the Half-Earth Project globe. The saturated palette and rich landcover tones are meant to engage an audience and to provide the sense that the earth is a charming and beautiful place worthy of thoughtful stewardship. As you zoom in, the saturated basemap is slowly replaced by imagery.This basemap is the major component of the Vibrant Map. The Vibrant Map is configured to use these basemap tiles from global to regional extents, then transition to Esri's World Imagery basemap tiles for a seamless transition from small to large scale.Find more information about this basemap, and its contributing data, here: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/mapping/creating-the-half-earth-vibrant-basemap/Learn more about the Half-Earth Project here and explore highlighted areas of biodiversity here.Happy Mapping! John

A fileset to accompany an article in a special issue of Internet Archaeology. In this article, I map the structure of the web to understand the context of archaeological blogging. What is the context of our archaeological blogging? When we blog, are we merely shouting into the void? Do archaeological bloggers link only to one another, and do we shout only to each other (which, it must be admitted, is what our journals and conferences do, too, albeit at slower pace)? Assume a person knows nothing about archaeology: would that person find your blog? Your project website? Your department’s website? Does academic blogging matter? One way to answer these questions is through a mapping of the archaeological web. When a layperson finds a site, she might signal its perceived value through linking, retweeting, commenting, and writing her own blog posts about it. Therefore, various network metrics of this map of the archaeological web can be taken as a kind of proxy for evaluating the impact of our blogging. Given that these blogs are all publicly available (if one knows or can find the address), blogging is a kind of public archaeology- not necessarily an archaeology done for the public, but rather an archaeology done in view of the public. It would be interesting to know if this kind of public archaeology has an impact at all. These signals and linkages in the general noise of the internet are the subject of this paper. In order for us as archaeologists to generate the strongest possible signals on the web, we need to understand the structures that have emerged within the web to best facilitate dissemination. This can help us increase our signals’ visiblity, even though all roads eventually lead to Wikipedia.

The Vintage Shaded Relief basemap, with transition to World Imagery at smaller scales. Human Geography labels provided for optional locational context.Find the source hillshade artistry at https://www.shadedreliefarchive.com/world_townsend1.html.Learn how to make blended layers like this map's basemap tiles, here: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-online/mapping/vintage-shaded-relief-basemap/. And if you liked that, get the backstory here: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/mapping/how-to-smash-vintage-hillshade-into-modern-imagery/About the basemap:The hillshade is an extract of the darkest and lightest tones in this vintage mid-century shaded relief plate hand painted by Kenneth Townsend. Mid-tones are transparent to permit a visual pass-through of an underlying satellite imagery layer. Another, unaltered, instance of this shaded relief plate is shown at 80% transparency to provide painterly hues and texture. Mr. Townsend's source plate is available as a georeferenced TIFF file at https://www.shadedreliefarchive.com/world_townsend1.html.Learn more about this, and other, shaded relief via the archive, maintained by Tom Patterson and Bernhard Jenny, here: https://www.shadedreliefarchive.com/about.htmlThe underlying satellite imagery is derived from the NASA blue marble project's Visible Earth mosaics of cloud-free imagery, available here: https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=73826Cartographic layers, such as the oceans overlay, graticule, and lakes and rivers, are a combination of custom layers and content sourced from Natural Earth. Their pencil strokes and paper texture backgrounds can be found in the ArcGIS Pro Watercolor style, available here: https://esri-styles.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=936edb7f57334763a8247d1019a9de51Happy Vintage Mapping! John Nelson

This is a subset of World Biomass Image Layer to focus on Central Asia and Caucasus Region. Use this web map to visualize and understand the Biomass for that region. Use image layer for your analysis. Plants play a central role in the carbon cycle by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and incorporating it in the structure of the plant. Globally living plants contain 500 billion metric tons of carbon, more than 60 times the amount of carbon released to the atmosphere by humans each year. Understanding the distribution of the carbon stored in living plants, known as biomass, is key to estimating the effects of land use change on the climate.Dataset SummaryThis layer provides access to a 1-km cell-sized raster with data on the density of carbon stored in living plants in metric tons per hectare for the year 2000. It was published by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center in 2008.The authors of these data request that they be cited as:Ruesch, Aaron, and Holly K. Gibbs. 2008. New IPCC Tier-1 Global Biomass Carbon Map For the Year 2000. Available online from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.What can you do with this layer?This layer is suitable for both visualization and analysis. It can be used in ArcGIS Online in web maps and applications and can be used in ArcGIS Desktop.This layer has query, identify, and export image services available. This layer is restricted to a maximum area of 16,000 x 16,000 pixels - an area 4,000 kilometers on a side or an area approximately the size of Europe. The Esri Insider Blog provides an introduction to the Ecophysiographic Mapping project.

Overview: Global results from gridfinder model, produced by ESMAP based on joint work with Facebook and others. Uses night-time lights, road networks and existing grid network data to predict the location of transmission and distribution lines globally. Validated in several countries with ~70% accuracy at 1 km. More information: Blog with brief overview: https://blogs.worldbank.org/energy/using-night-lights-map-electrical-gri... Full research paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0347-4 Visualization: https://gridfinder.org/ The following data are included: grid.gpkg: Vectorized predicted distribution and transmission line network, with existing OpenStreetMap lines tagged in the 'source' column targets.tif: Binary aster showing locations predicted to be connected to distribution grid. lv.tif: Raster of predicted low-voltage infrastructure in kilometres per cell.

This web map provides a detailed vector tile basemap for the world featuring a dark background with glowing blue symbology inspired by the ArcGIS.com splash screen. This web map is focused on Africa, with a mask layer added to the basemap.The Nova map emulates this color scheme, with a grid pattern across the ocean and stripes or square stippled patterns for land use features visible at larger scales. The colors are reminiscent of science-fiction shows, where one is looking at a map of the world on a 'head's up' device or a map that would be projected from a transparent glass wall. Additional graphics in the oceans presents a futuristic user interface. The futuristic and less terrestrial feel theme continues with the geometric patterns, starburst city dot symbols, and cool color scheme. The fonts displayed are clean and squarish (san serif) with a futuristic, science-fiction, or high technology appearance.Use this MapThis map is designed to be used as a basemap for overlaying other layers of information or as a stand-alone reference map. You can add layers to this web map and save as your own map. If you like, you can add this web map to a custom basemap gallery for others in your organization to use in creating web maps. If you would like to add this map as a layer in other maps you are creating, you may use the tile layer item referenced in this map.Customize this MapBecause this map includes a vector tile layer, you can customize the map to change its content and symbology. You are able to turn on and off layers, change symbols for layers, switch to alternate local language (in some areas), and refine the treatment of disputed boundaries. For details on how to customize this map, please refer to these articles on the ArcGIS Online Blog.This map was designed and created by Cindy Prostak.

This vector tile layer presents the Human Geography Label style (World Edition) and provides a detailed vector basemap for world labels designed to draw attention to your thematic content. This is similar in content and style to the popular Light Gray Canvas map. The map includes labels for highways, major roads, minor roads, water features, cities, landmarks, and administrative boundaries. This vector tile layer provides unique capabilities for customization, high-resolution display, and use in mobile devices.This vector tile layer is built using the same data sources used for other Esri Vector Basemaps. For details on data sources contributed by the GIS community, view the map of Community Maps Basemap Contributors. Esri Vector Basemaps are updated monthly.This layer is used in the Human Geography Map web map included in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.See the Vector Basemaps group for other vector tile layers. Customize this StyleLearn more about customizing this vector basemap style using the Vector Tile Style Editor. Additional details are available in ArcGIS Online Blogs and the Esri Vector Basemaps Reference Document.

This vector web map features outline maps of the World. The maps can be used for coloring and other fun activities by budding cartographers. These outline maps are great for teaching children about our World. Have them color and label countries, regions and bodies of water. Limited labels appear on the map at large scales. After coloring the city maps, children can do further research to learn more about these places. These maps are also available in a printable PDF format. See this blog with more details on how to work with the vector maps in ArcGIS Pro.For other creatively designed Esri vector basemaps, see the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World gallery.

This vector tile layer presents the World Street Map (with Relief - WGS84) style (World Edition) and provides a basemap for the world, symbolized with a classic Esri street map style. This comprehensive street map includes highways, major roads, minor roads, railways, water features, cities, parks, landmarks, building footprints, and administrative boundaries. Additionally, this layer is designed for use with World Hillshade (WGS84). This vector tile layer provides unique capabilities for customization and high-resolution display, and use in mobile devices.This vector tile layer is built using the same data sources used for other Esri Vector Basemaps. For details on data sources contributed by the GIS community, view the map of Community Maps Basemap Contributors. Esri Vector Basemaps (WGS84) are updated quarterly.This layer is used in the Streets (with Relief - WGS84) web map included in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.Check out other WGS84 basemaps in the World Basemaps (WGS84) group. Customize this StyleLearn more about customizing this vector basemap style using the Vector Tile Style Editor. Additional details are available in ArcGIS Online Blogs and the Esri Vector Basemaps Reference Document.Precise Tile RegistrationThe map uses the improved tiling scheme “WGS84 Geographic, Version 2” to ensure proper tile positioning at higher resolutions (neighborhood level and beyond). The new tiling scheme is much more precise than tiling schemes of the legacy basemaps Esri released years ago. We recommend that you start using this new basemap for any new web maps in WGS84 that you plan to author. Due to the number of differences between the old and new tiling schemes, some web clients will not be able to overlay tile layers in the old and new tiling schemes in one web map.

This vector tile layer presents the World Navigation Map (Places) style (World Edition) and provides a basemap for the world, featuring a Navigation style designed for use during the day in mobile devices with the additional content of global Places. These shops, services, restaurants, attractions, and other points of interest are displayed with icons and labels. This comprehensive street map includes highways, major roads, minor roads, railways, water features, cities, parks, landmarks, building footprints, and administrative boundaries. This vector tile layer provides unique capabilities for customization, high-resolution display, and use in mobile devices.This vector tile layer is built using the same data sources used for other Esri Vector Basemaps. For details on data sources contributed by the GIS community, view the map of Community Maps Basemap Contributors. Esri Vector Basemaps are updated monthly.The Places data sources in this map include:United States and Canada: SafeGraphrest of the World: TomTomThis layer is used in the Navigation (Places) web map included in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.See the Vector Basemaps group for other vector tile layers. Customize this StyleLearn more about customizing this vector basemap style using the Vector Tile Style Editor. Additional details are available in ArcGIS Online Blogs and the Esri Vector Basemaps Reference Document.

This web map provides a detailed vector tile basemap for the world featuring a dark background with glowing blue symbology inspired by the ArcGIS.com splash screen. This web map is focused on the Carribean, with a mask layer added to the basemap.The Nova map emulates this color scheme, with a grid pattern across the ocean and stripes or square stippled patterns for land use features visible at larger scales. The colors are reminiscent of science-fiction shows, where one is looking at a map of the world on a 'head's up' device or a map that would be projected from a transparent glass wall. Additional graphics in the oceans presents a futuristic user interface. The futuristic and less terrestrial feel theme continues with the geometric patterns, starburst city dot symbols, and cool color scheme. The fonts displayed are clean and squarish (san serif) with a futuristic, science-fiction, or high technology appearance.Use this MapThis map is designed to be used as a basemap for overlaying other layers of information or as a stand-alone reference map. You can add layers to this web map and save as your own map. If you like, you can add this web map to a custom basemap gallery for others in your organization to use in creating web maps. If you would like to add this map as a layer in other maps you are creating, you may use the tile layer item referenced in this map.Customize this MapBecause this map includes a vector tile layer, you can customize the map to change its content and symbology. You are able to turn on and off layers, change symbols for layers, switch to alternate local language (in some areas), and refine the treatment of disputed boundaries. For details on how to customize this map, please refer to these articles on the ArcGIS Online Blog.This map was designed and created by Cindy Prostak.

This web map contains the Bing Maps aerial imagery web mapping service, which offers worldwide orthographic aerial and satellite imagery. Coverage varies by region, with the most detailed coverage in the USA and United Kingdom. Coverage in different areas within a country also varies in detail based on the availability of imagery for that region. Bing Maps is continuously adding imagery in new areas and updating coverage in areas of existing coverage. This map does not include bird's eye imagery. Information regarding monthly updates of imagery coverage are available on the Bing Community blog. Post a comment to the Bing Community blog to request imagery vintage information for a specific area.Tip: The Bing Maps Aerial service is one of the basemaps used in the ArcGIS.com map viewer and ArcGIS Explorer Online. Simply click one of those links to launch the interactive application of your choice, and then choose Bing Maps Aerial from the Basemap control to start browsing! You'll also find this service in the Basemap gallery in ArcGIS Explorer Desktop and ArcGIS Desktop 10.If you need information on how to access Bing Maps, information is available in the ArcGIS Online Content Resource Center.See Bing Maps (http://www.bing.com/maps) for more information about the Bing Maps mapping system, terms of use, and a complete list of data suppliers.

Parking citations with latitude / longitude in Mercator map projection which is a variant of Web Mercator, Google Web Mercator, Spherical Mercator, WGS 84 Web Mercator or WGS 84/Pseudo-Mercator and is the de facto standard for Web mapping applications. Additional information about Meractor projections - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection The official EPSG identifier for Web Mercator is EPSG:3857. Additional information on projections can be read here: https://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/index.cfm?TopicName=Projection_basics_the_GIS_professional_needs_to_know For more information on Geographic vs Projected coordinate systems, read here: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/mapping/gcs_vs_pcs/ For information on how to change map projections, read here: https://learn.arcgis.com/en/projects/make-a-web-map-without-web-mercator/

This vector tile layer presents the World Topographic Map (Local Language) style (World Edition) and provides a basemap for the world, symbolized with a classic Esri topographic map style. This layer includes highways, major roads, minor roads, railways, water features, cities, parks, landmarks, building footprints, and administrative boundaries, designed for use with World Hillshade for added context. This vector tile layer provides unique capabilities for customization, high-resolution display, and use in mobile devices.This vector tile layer is built using the same data sources used for other Esri Vector Basemaps. For details on data sources contributed by the GIS community, view the map of Community Maps Basemap Contributors. Esri Vector Basemaps are updated monthly.This layer is used in the Topographic (Local Language) web map included in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.See the Vector Basemaps group for other vector tile layers. Customize this StyleLearn more about customizing this vector basemap style using the Vector Tile Style Editor. Additional details are available in ArcGIS Online Blogs and the Esri Vector Basemaps Reference Document.

This vector tile layer presents the Human Geography Dark Label style (World Edition) and provides a detailed vector basemap for the world with a dark monochromatic style and content adjusted to support Human Geography information. The map includes labels for highways, major roads, minor roads, railways, water features, building footprints, and administrative boundaries. It is designed to be used with the Human Geography Dark Detail and Human Geography Dark Base layers. Learn more about this basemap's design from the cartographic designer in this blog. This vector tile layer provides unique capabilities for customization, high-resolution display, and use in mobile devices.This vector tile layer is built using the same data sources used for other Esri Vector Basemaps. For details on data sources contributed by the GIS community, view the map of Community Maps Basemap Contributors. Esri Vector Basemaps are updated monthly.This layer is used in the Human Geography Dark Map web map included in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.See the Vector Basemaps group for other vector tile layers. Customize this StyleLearn more about customizing this vector basemap style using the Vector Tile Style Editor. Additional details are available in ArcGIS Online Blogs and the Esri Vector Basemaps Reference Document.

Important Note: This item is in mature support as of December 2024. See blog for more information.This web map presents a vector basemap of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data hosted by Esri. This version of the map is rendered in a style similar to the Esri Navigation map. Created from the sunsetted Daylight map distribution, data updates supporting this layer are no longer available.OpenStreetMap is an open collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Volunteers gather location data using GPS, local knowledge, and other free sources of information and upload it. The resulting free map can be viewed and downloaded from the OpenStreetMap site: www.OpenStreetMap.org. Esri is a supporter of the OSM project.

This basemap was designed with the Vizzuality team for use in the Half-Earth Project globe. The saturated palette and rich landcover tones are meant to engage an audience and to provide the sense that the earth is a charming and beautiful place worthy of thoughtful stewardship. As you zoom in, the saturated basemap is slowly replaced by imagery.This basemap is the major component of the Vibrant Map. The Vibrant Map is configured to use these basemap tiles from global to regional extents, then transition to Esri's World Imagery basemap tiles for a seamless transition from small to large scale.Find more information about this basemap, and its contributing data, here: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/mapping/creating-the-half-earth-vibrant-basemap/Learn more about the Half-Earth Project here and explore highlighted areas of biodiversity here.Happy Mapping! John

This web map provides a customized vector layer for the world symbolized with a unique antique styled map, with a modern flair -- including the benefit of multi-scale mapping. This map is focused on the Caribbean region, with a mask layer in the basemap.This web map is built using the same data sources used for the World Topographic Map and other Esri basemaps. The comprehensive map data includes highways, major roads, minor roads, railways, water features, cities, parks, landmarks, building footprints, and administrative boundaries. Alignment of boundaries is a presentation of the feature provided by our data vendors and does not imply endorsement by Esri or any governing authority.Use this MapThis map is designed to be used as a basemap for overlaying other layers of information or as a stand-alone reference map. You can add layers to this web map and save as your own map. If you like, you can add this web map to a custom basemap gallery for others in your organization to use in creating web maps. If you would like to add this map as a layer in other maps you are creating, you may use the tile layer item referenced in this map.Customize this MapBecause this map contains a vector tile layer, you can customize the map to change its content and symbology. You are able to turn on and off layers, change symbols for layers, switch to alternate local language (in some areas), and refine the treatment of disputed boundaries. For details on how to customize this map, please refer to these articles on the ArcGIS Online Blog.This map was designed and created by Cindy Prostak.

The population of the world, allocated to 1 arcsecond blocks. This refines CIESIN’s Gridded Population of the World project, using machine learning models on high-resolution worldwide Digital Globe satellite imagery. For more information, visit: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/mapping-the-world-to-help-aid-workers-with-weakly-semi-supervised-learning

This web map provides a detailed vector tile basemap for the world featuring a dark background with glowing blue symbology inspired by the ArcGIS.com splash screen.The Nova map emulates this color scheme, with a grid pattern across the ocean and stripes or square stippled patterns for land use features visible at larger scales. The colors are reminiscent of science-fiction shows, where one is looking at a map of the world on a 'head's up' device or a map that would be projected from a transparent glass wall. Additional graphics in the oceans presents a futuristic user interface. The futuristic and less terrestrial feel theme continues with the geometric patterns, starburst city dot symbols, and cool color scheme. The fonts displayed are clean and squarish (san serif) with a futuristic, science-fiction, or high technology appearance.Use this MapThis map is designed to be used as a basemap for overlaying other layers of information or as a stand-alone reference map. You can add layers to this web map and save as your own map. If you like, you can add this web map to a custom basemap gallery for others in your organization to use in creating web maps. If you would like to add this map as a layer in other maps you are creating, you may use the tile layer item referenced in this map.Customize this MapBecause this map includes a vector tile layer, you can customize the map to change its content and symbology. You are able to turn on and off layers, change symbols for layers, switch to alternate local language (in some areas), and refine the treatment of disputed boundaries. For details on how to customize this map, please refer to these articles on the ArcGIS Online Blog.This map was designed and created by Cindy Prostak.