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ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World

The world's foremost collection of geospatial information

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There is always up-to-date content available in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World in the form of maps, apps, and data layers. Access this ready-to-use, authoritative content, curated and shared for quick discovery across the ArcGIS Platform. Be inspired by the collection of spatial content from thousands of organizations. Support the greater spatial community by contributing your own authoritative content to Living Atlas and engage others with the content you create.

You do the analyzing, we'll do the curating.

Your time is valuable. Trust in Esri to get you started using quality location data, fast. Living Atlas saves you time with curated and prepared data layers that can be easily integrated into your GIS workflows.

See What Others Can't

Discover the global collection of maps and map layers that can jumpstart projects. Complement your dashboards, applications, or analytics by inserting constantly updated map layers or ready-to-use maps.

Contribute to Living Atlas

Do you have a captivating story map, web app, or data layer that you would like to contribute to Living Atlas? Would you like to enhance your local basemap with areas of interest, addresses, or street locations? Get started today and see why thousands of organizations already contribute authoritative content to advance Esri's basemaps, imagery, elevation, and so much more.

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Living Atlas resources

  • Living Atlas Data for On-Premises Use

    ArcGIS Living Atlas Blog

    Learn more about Living Atlas maps and data that are available to deploy and use on-premises in your private network.
  • Policy Mapping—Improve Newborn Health

    ArcGIS Tutorial

    Identify counties in need of low birth weight intervention by making a policy map and creating a web app to share your results.
  • Evaluate climate change data with ArcGIS Pro

    Spatial data webinar

    Dive into the latest scientific data on climate change and get the basis to explore how scientists project your climate will change.
  • Predict Weather with Real-Time Data

    ArcGIS Tutorial

    Explore real-time weather data, make predictions, and interpolate surfaces.


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Living Atlas in the news

  • USGS releases PAD-US 2.0

    ArcGIS Blog

    Newly released protected areas of the United States are now available in Living Atlas.
  • New Live Feed weather data

    ArcGIS Blog

    Access real-time maps and layers from Living Atlas.
  • Warming waters threaten coral reefs

    Mongabay News

    New interactive map can help you identify, in near real time, the areas where the sea is warming up, increasing the risk of coral reef bleaching.
  • NaturalVue 2.0 Release

    Maxar Press

    This cloud-free, global imagery mosaic is now available in Living Atlas.
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