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The Esri News for Community Maps Program newsletter delivers program news, tips and tricks, user success stories, training events, updates, and bulletins and highlights participant contributions.

Sneak Peek: Exciting Changes to the Community Maps Program

World Topographic Map

Two exciting changes will occur in the coming months for ArcGIS Online basemap users and contributors! First, we're redesigning the cartography of the World Topographic Map. Second, we're introducing the Community Maps 2.0 contribution methodology. This article describes these updates, how they are interrelated, and how they are casting a new mold for the ArcGIS user community. Read More »

Latest Contributors

These last few months we have had many contributors focusing not only on supplying multiscaled caches of their areas but also providing detailed special areas of interest. Read More »

What's Up with the G-181?

Form G-181 - more commonly known as the ArcGIS Online Community Maps Program Participation Agreement - provides written documentation of Esri's permission to publish the user's content in a cached map service. While simple in concept, the document is not always clear to those of us who did not pass the bar exam, so Don Cooke, product manager for Community Maps, has prepared this brief FAQ to take Community Maps participants through the finer points of the G-181, in plain English. Read More »

Are You Ready for the Esri UC?

The 2012 Esri International User Conference (Esri UC) will be here before you know it, and this year's event will be a terrific opportunity for current Community Maps Program members and anyone who is interested in Community Maps to share their experiences, learn the benefits of the program, and find out where things are headed in the future. Check out some of the exciting events we have planned for our week in beautiful San Diego. Read More »

Maps and Apps

Explore the Map Showcase to view beautiful examples of shared map presentations. Visit the App Showcase for innovative approaches in leveraging your map contributions. Read More »