Important Note: This item is in mature support as of July 2021. A new version of this item is available for your use. Esri recommends updating your maps and apps to use the new version.World Topographic Map is designed to be used as a basemap by GIS professionals and as a reference map by anyone. The map includes cities, water features, physiographic features, contours, parks, landmarks, highways, roads, railways, airports, and administrative boundaries, overlaid on shaded relief imagery for added context.This basemap is compiled from a variety of authoritative sources from several data providers, including the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. National Park Service (NPS), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Department of Natural Resources Canada (NRCAN), HERE, and Esri. Data for select areas is sourced from OpenStreetMap contributors. Specific country list and documentation of Esri's process for including OSM data is available to view. Additionally, data for the World Topographic Map is provided by the GIS community through the Community Maps Program. View the list of Contributors for the World Topographic Map.CoverageThe map provides coverage for the world down to a scale of ~1:72k. Coverage is provided down to ~1:4k for the following areas: Africa, Australia and New Zealand; Europe and Russia; India; most of the Middle East; Pacific Island nations; Alaska; Canada; Mexico; South America and Central America. Coverage is available down to ~1:2k and ~1:1k in select urban areas.CitationsThis layer includes imagery provider, collection date, resolution, accuracy, and source of the imagery. With the Identify tool in ArcGIS Desktop you can see topographic citations. Citations returned apply only to the available map at that location and scale.UseYou can add this layer to the ArcGIS Online Map Viewer, ArcGIS Desktop, or ArcGIS Pro. To view this layer in a web map, see this Topographic basemap.

The TopoBathy 3D layer provides a global seamless topography (land elevation) and bathymetry (water depths) surface to use in ArcGIS 3D applications.What can you do with this layer?This layer is meant to be used as a ground in ArcGIS Online Web Scenes, ArcGIS Earth, and ArcGIS Pro to help visualize your maps and data in 3D.How do I use this layer?In the ArcGIS Online Web Scene Viewer:Sign-in with ArcGIS Online accountOn the Designer toolbar, click Add Layers Click Browse layers and choose Living Atlas.Search for TopoBathy 3DAdd TopoBathy 3D (Elevation Layer)The TopoBathy 3D will get added under Ground. Change basemap to OceansOptionally, add any other operational layers to visualize in 3DIn ArcGIS Pro:Ensure you are logged in with an ArcGIS Online accountOpen a Global SceneOn the Map tab, click Add Data > Elevation Source LayerUnder Portal, click Living Atlas and search for TopoBathy 3DSelect TopoBathy 3D (Elevation Layer) and click OKThe TopoBathy 3D will get added under GroundOptionally, remove other elevation layers from ground and choose the desired basemapDataset Coverage To see the coverage and sources of various datasets comprising this elevation layer, view the Elevation Coverage Map. Additionally, this layer uses data from Maxar’s Precision 3D Digital Terrain Models for parts of the globe.

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.

Important Note: This item is in mature support as of June 2021 and is no longer updated.

This map presents land cover and detailed topographic maps for the United States. It uses the USA Topographic Map service. The map includes the National Park Service (NPS) Natural Earth physical map at 1.24km per pixel for the world at small scales, i-cubed eTOPO 1:250,000-scale maps for the contiguous United States at medium scales, and National Geographic TOPO! 1:100,000 and 1:24,000-scale maps (1:250,000 and 1:63,000 in Alaska) for the United States at large scales. The TOPO! maps are seamless, scanned images of United States Geological Survey (USGS) paper topographic maps.

The maps provide a very useful basemap for a variety of applications, particularly in rural areas where the topographic maps provide unique detail and features from other basemaps.

To add this map service into a desktop application directly, go to the entry for the USA Topo Maps map service.

Tip: Here are some famous locations as they appear in this web map, accessed by including their location in the URL that launches the map:

Grand Canyon, Arizona

Golden Gate, California

The Statue of Liberty, New York

Washington DC

Canyon De Chelly, Arizona

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Area 51, Nevada

This vector tile layer presents the World Topographic Map (with Contours and Hillshade) style (World Edition) and provides a basemap for the world, symbolized with a classic Esri topographic map style, including both vector contour lines and vector hillshade. This layer 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 and high-resolution display.This is a multisource vector map style. The root.json style file calls three vector tile services to display all the data in the map. The "esri" source contains all the basemap tiles for this layer. The other two sources are "contours" and "hillshade". Click the View style button on right to see the json. The multisource section of this code is shown below."sources": { "esri": { "type": "vector", "url": "https://basemaps.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/World_Basemap_v2/VectorTileServer" }, "contours": { "type": "vector", "url": "https://basemaps.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/World_Contours_v2/VectorTileServer" }, "hillshade": { "type": "vector", "url": "https://basemaps.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/World_Hillshade_v2/VectorTileServer" } },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 (Vector) 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. There are new versions of basemaps available for your use. Esri recommends updating your maps and apps to use the appropriate new version. This topographic map is designed to be used as a basemap and a reference map. The map has been compiled by Esri and the ArcGIS user community from a variety of best available sources. The map is intended to support the ArcGIS Online basemap gallery. For more details on the map, please visit the World Topographic Map service description.

The USGS Topo base map service from The National Map is a combination of contours, shaded relief, woodland and urban tint, along with vector layers, such as geographic names, governmental unit boundaries, hydrography, structures, and transportation, to provide a composite topographic base map. Data sources are the National Atlas for small scales, and The National Map for medium to large scales.

Important Note: This item is in mature support. There are new versions of basemaps available for your use. Esri recommends updating your maps and apps to use the appropriate new version. This map features shaded relief imagery, bathymetry and coastal water features that provide neutral background with political boundaries and placenames for reference purposes. The map is intended to support the ArcGIS Online basemap gallery. For more details on the map, please visit the World Terrain Base and World Reference Overlay map service descriptions.

Important Note: This item is in mature support. There are new versions of basemaps available for your use. Esri recommends updating your maps and apps to use the appropriate new version. This topographic map is designed to be used as a basemap and a reference map. The map has been compiled by Esri and the ArcGIS user community from a variety of best available sources. The map is intended to support the ArcGIS Online basemap gallery. For more details on the map, please visit the World Topographic Map service description.

The map is designed to be used as a basemap by marine GIS professionals and as a reference map by anyone interested in ocean data. The basemap focuses on bathymetry. It also includes inland waters and roads, overlaid on land cover and shaded relief imagery.

his web map provides a detailed vector basemap for the world symbolized with a classic Esri topographic map style including vector contours and vector hillshade for added context. The web map is very similar in content and style to the popular World Topographic Map, which was delivered as a tile layer with raster fused map cache. This map includes a vector tile layer that provides unique capabilities for customization and high-resolution display. This map includes highways, major roads, minor roads, railways, water features, cities, parks, landmarks, building footprints, administrative boundaries, and shaded relief for added context. The layers in this map are built using the same data sources used for the World Topographic Map and other Esri vector basemaps. The tile layer contains a multisource map style. This map includes vector contour lines and vector hillshade. Even though there are three source paths in the layer's json, these are referenced from a single vector tile layer in this web map. The root.json style file calls three vector Hosted Tile Layers to display all the data in the map. One source (esri) contains all the basemap tiles for this layer. The other source (contours) contains all the contour lines. The third source (hillshade) contains all the relief tiles. Note: the vector World Hillshade layer is in beta and includes global coverage to ~1:72K. In North America and Europe the relief is displayed to full resolution at the largest scales. Use the Map Viewer (not Classic) to view all the features in this layer as intended.

The Topographic (World Edition) web map is presented with a classic Esri topographic map style including a shaded relief layer for added context. This comprehensive topographic map includes landform labels, highways, major roads, minor roads, railways, water features, cities, parks, landmarks, building footprints, and administrative boundaries, designed for use with shaded relief for added context. This basemap, included in the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, uses the World Topographic Map vector tile layer and World Hillshade. For a topographic basemap that includes vector contours and vector hillshade, see the Topographic (Vector) web map.The vector tile layer in this web map 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.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 layers referenced in this map.

This map is designed to be used as a basemap by GIS professionals and as a reference map by anyone. The map includes cities, water features, physiographic features, parks, landmarks, highways, roads, railways, airports, and administrative boundaries, overlaid on land cover and shaded relief imagery for added context. 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.The map provides coverage for the world down to a scale of ~1:72k. Coverage is provided down to ~1:4k for the following areas: Africa, Australia and New Zealand; Europe and Russia; India; the continental United States and Hawaii; Canada; Mexico; most of the Middle East; Pacific Island nations; South America and Central America. Coverage down to ~1:1k and ~1:2k is available in select urban areas. This basemap was compiled from a variety of best available sources from several data providers, including the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) , U.S. National Park Service (NPS), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Department of Natural Resources Canada (NRCAN), GeoBase, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, DeLorme, HERE, and Esri. Data for Africa and Pacific Island nations from ~1:288k to ~1:4k (~1:1k in select areas) was sourced from OpenStreetMap contributors. Specific country list and documentation of Esri's process for including OSM data is available to view.The data for the World Topographic Map is provided by the GIS community. You can contribute your data to this service and have it served by Esri. For details on the coverage in this map and the users who contributed data for this map via the Community Maps Program, view the list of Contributors for the World Topographic Map.Feedback: Have you ever seen a problem in the Esri World Topographic Map community basemap that you wanted to see fixed? You can use the Topographic Map Feedback web map to provide feedback on issues or errors that you see in the Esri World Topographic Map. The feedback will be reviewed by the ArcGIS Online team and considered for one of our updates.

The Terrain 3D layer provides global elevation surface to use in ArcGIS 3D applicationsWhat can you do with this layer?Use this layer to visualize your maps and layers in 3D using applications like the Scene Viewer in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro. Show me how1) Working with Scenes in ArcGIS Pro or ArcGIS Online Scene Viewer2) Select an appropriate basemap or use your own3) Add your unique 2D and 3D data layers to the scene. Your data are simply added on the elevation. If your data have defined elevation (z coordinates) this information will be honored in the scene4) Share your work as a Web Scene with others in your organization or the publicDataset Coverage To see the coverage and sources of various datasets comprising this elevation layer, view the Elevation Coverage Map. Additionally, this layer uses data from Maxar’s Precision 3D Digital Terrain Models for parts of the globe.This layer is part of a larger collection of elevation layers. For more information, see the Elevation Layers group on ArcGIS Online.

LIST Topographic Gray Scale Basemap The LIST Topographic Grey Scale Basemap is a multi-scaled grey scale base for many diverse applications requiring topographic data. It is intended to allow users to overlay GIS information to a grey mapping base allowing better depiction and emphasis on focus data. The LIST Topographic Grey Scale Basemap is derived from the LIST Topographic Basemap with grey scale filter applied. The basemap is updated regularly from the best available LIST authoritative …Show full descriptionLIST Topographic Gray Scale Basemap The LIST Topographic Grey Scale Basemap is a multi-scaled grey scale base for many diverse applications requiring topographic data. It is intended to allow users to overlay GIS information to a grey mapping base allowing better depiction and emphasis on focus data. The LIST Topographic Grey Scale Basemap is derived from the LIST Topographic Basemap with grey scale filter applied. The basemap is updated regularly from the best available LIST authoritative spatial data, and features 19 scale levels from 1:591,657,550 up to 1:1,128. The LIST Topographic Grey Scale Basemap incorporates data from the following LIST datasets: • Address Points • Buildings • Cadastral Parcels • Coastline (MHWM) • Community Facilities • Contours • Hydrographic • Infrastructure • Landform • Locality • Nomenclature • Spot Heights • Survey Control • Transport • Vegetation Each scale level shows a different level of detail, attribution and annotation. The multi-scale basemap allows users to ‘zoom in’ to the next scale level for further detail and information, or alternatively ‘zoom out’ for a broader overview. Note: Macquarie Island has been compiled from data originally sourced from Geoscience Australia.

Culminating more than four years of processing data, NASA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) have completed Earth's most extensive global topographic map. The mission is a collaboration among NASA, NGA, and the German and Italian space agencies. For 11 days in February 2000, the space shuttle Endeavour conducted the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) using C-Band and X-Band interferometric synthetic aperture radars to acquire topographic data over 80% of the Earth's land mass, creating the first-ever near-global data set of land elevations. This data was used to produce topographic maps (digital elevation maps) 30 times as precise as the best global maps used today. The SRTM system gathered data at the rate of 40,000 per minute over land. They reveal for the first time large, detailed swaths of Earth's topography previously obscured by persistent cloudiness. The data will benefit scientists, engineers, government agencies and the public with an ever-growing array of uses. The SRTM radar system mapped Earth from 56 degrees south to 60 degrees north of the equator. The resolution of the publicly available data is three arc-seconds (1/1,200th of a degree of latitude and longitude, about 295 feet, at Earth's equator). The final data release covers Australia and New Zealand in unprecedented uniform detail. It also covers more than 1,000 islands comprising much of Polynesia and Melanesia in the South Pacific, as well as islands in the South Indian and Atlantic oceans. SRTM data are being used for applications ranging from land use planning to "virtual" Earth exploration. Currently, the mission's homepage "http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm" provides direct access to recently obtained earth images. The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission C-band data for North America and South America are available to the public. A list of complete public data set is available at "http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/dataprod.htm" The data specifications are within the following parameters: 30-meter X 30-meter spatial sampling with 16 meter absolute vertical height accuracy, 10-meter relative vertical height accuracy, and 20-meter absolute horizontal circular accuracy. From the JPL Mission Products Summary, "http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/dataprelimdescriptions.html". The primary products of the SRTM mission are the digital elevation maps of most of the Earth's surface. Visualized images of these maps are available for viewing online. Below you will find descriptions of the types of images that are being generated:

• Radar Image
• Radar Image with Color as Height
• Radar Image with Color Wrapped Fringes
  -Shaded Relief
• Perspective View with B/W Radar Image Overlaid
• Perspective View with Radar Image Overlaid, Color as Height
• Perspective View of Shaded Relief
• Perspective View with Landsat or other Image Overlaid
• Contour Map - B/W with Contour Lines
• Stereo Pair
• Anaglypgh

The SRTM radar contained two types of antenna panels, C-band and X-band. The near-global topographic maps of Earth called Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are made from the C-band radar data. These data were processed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and are being distributed through the United States Geological Survey's EROS Data Center. Data from the X-band radar are used to create slightly higher resolution DEMs but without the global coverage of the C-band radar. The SRTM X-band radar data are being processed and distributed by the German Aerospace Center, DLR.

Connecticut Roads and Trails is 1:24,000-scale base map data. It depicts the location of all roads and trails published on the USGS topographic quadrangle maps. For base map purposes, use this layer with other 1:24,000-scale base map data such as Hydrography, Railroads, Airports, and Towns. The Roads and Trails layer includes information within Connecticut and is derived from the Roads and Trails Master layer, which includes all road and trail features depicted on all of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 7.5 minute topographic quadrangle maps that cover the State of Connecticut. This layer may be used as a possible data source for other 1:24,000-scale layers having features that should coincide with the roads and trails on the USGS topographic quadrangle maps. Not intended for maps printed at map scales greater or more detailed than 1:24,000 scale (1 inch = 2,000 feet.)

Connecticut Roads and Trails is a 1:24,000-scale, feature-based layer that includes road and trail features on the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 7.5 minute topographic quadrangle maps for the State of Connecticut. This layer only includes features located in Connecticut. The layer is based on information from USGS topographic quadrangle maps published between 1969 and 1984 and does not represent the road network in Connecticut at any one particular point in time. The layer does not depict current conditions and excludes many roads that have been built, modified, or removed since the time these topographic quadrangle maps were published. The layer includes Interstate highways, US routes, state routes, local roads, unpaved roads, traffic circles, bridges, cul-de-sacs, trails, etc. It does not include route number, street name, house address, traffic direction, or traffic volume information for these features. Nor does it represent a complete or current network of hiking trails. Features are linear and represent road centerlines. Attribute information is comprised of codes to cartographically represent (symbolize) road and trail features on a map. This layer was originally published in 1994. The 2005 edition includes the same road features published in 1994, but the attribute information has been slightly modified and made easier to use.

The Australian Antarctic Data Centre's topographic GIS data for the Vestfold Hills, Antarctica were originally mapped from aerial photography: refer to the metadata record 'Vestfold Hills Topographic GIS Dataset'. Since then various features have been added to this data. In some cases features have been 'eyed in' as more accurate data were not available. The eyeing in has been done based on advice from Australian Antarctic Division staff and using as a guide sources such as an aerial photograph, a map or a sketch.

The data are available for download as part of the Vestfold Hills GIS dataset from a Related URL.

The data are formatted according to the SCAR Feature Catalogue (see Related URL). Data that are part of this dataset have Dataset_id = 56 in the SCAR Feature Catalogue format. Dataset_id is an attribute in the attribute table. Data quality information for any feature can be searched for at the Related URL by entering the Qinfo (or Dqi) number of the feature at the 'Search datasets and quality' tab. Qinfo (or Dqi) is an attribute in the attribute table.

This map feeds into a web app that allows a user to examine the known status of structures damaged by the wildfire. If a structure point does not appear on the map it may still have been impacted by the fire. Specific addresses can be searched for in the search bar. Use the imagery and topographic basemaps and photos to positively identify a structure. Photos may only be available for damaged and destroyed structures.For more information about the wildfire response efforts, visit the CAL FIRE incident page.

Coastline for Antarctica created from various mapping and remote sensing sources, consisting of the following coast types: ice coastline, rock coastline, grounding line, ice shelf and front, ice rumple, and rock against ice shelf. Covering all land and ice shelves south of 60°S. Suitable for topographic mapping and analysis. High resolution versions of ADD data are suitable for scales larger than 1:1,000,000. The largest suitable scale is changeable and dependent on the region.

Major changes in v7.5 include updates to ice shelf fronts in the following regions: Seal Nunataks and Scar Inlet region, the Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf, between the Brunt Ice Shelf and Riiser-Larsen Peninsula, the Shackleton and Conger ice shelves, and Crosson, Thwaites and Pine Island. Small areas of grounding line and ice coastlines were also updated in some of these regions as needed.

Data compiled, managed and distributed by the Mapping and Geographic Information Centre and the UK Polar Data Centre, British Antarctic Survey on behalf of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.

Further information and useful links

Map projection: WGS84 Antarctic Polar Stereographic, EPSG 3031. Note: by default, opening this layer in the Map Viewer will display the data in Web Mercator. To display this layer in its native projection use an Antarctic basemap.

The currency of this dataset is May 2022 and will be reviewed every 6 months. This feature layer will always reflect the most recent version.

For more information on, and access to other Antarctic Digital Database (ADD) datasets, refer to the SCAR ADD data catalogue.

A related medium resolution dataset is also published via Living Atlas, as well medium and high resolution polygon datasets.

For background information on the ADD project, please see the British Antarctic Survey ADD project page.

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Dataset compiled from a variety of Antarctic map and satellite image sources. The dataset was created using ArcGIS and QGIS GIS software programmes and has been checked for basic topography and geometry checks, but does not contain strict topology. Quality varies across the dataset and certain areas where high resolution source data were available are suitable for large scale maps whereas other areas are only suitable for smaller scales. Each line has attributes detailing the source which can give the user further indications of its suitability for specific uses. Attributes also give information including 'surface' (e.g. grounding line, ice coastline, ice shelf front) and revision date. Compiled from sources ranging in time from 1990s-2022 - individual lines contain exact source dates.