Contribute Data
What Data Can I Contribute?
The primary focus of the Community Maps Program is on adding more detail and coverage to existing basemaps, including
- World Imagery—global imagery map with high-resolution imagery in selected areas.
- World Street Map—multi-scale street map useful for geocoding, routing, and other applications.
- World Topographic Map—multi-scale basemap designed for use as a reference map or for GIS professionals to add operational layers
Each of these basemaps is built with data from multiple governmental and commercial data providers. Esri is working with the user community to enhance these popular maps in order to provide access to the best available data to the user community.
The World Topographic Map is updated on a monthly basis. The World Street Map and World Imagery Map are updated at least twice annually.
Below is a summary of the types of data you can contribute.
| Community Map |
Desired Data |
| World Imagery |
- High-resolution imagery (i.e., 1 m or better) collected in the past 3 years.
- Should improve upon the resolution or currency of the imagery in the current World Imagery map.
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| World Street Map |
- Detailed street map data (i.e., 1:50,000 scale or larger) for countries in regions where this data is not already available (e.g., Africa, Asia, or South America). See Street Map Template.
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| World Topographic Map |
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General considerations for any data you would like to share
- Format. Data should be available in an Esri software supported file format and coordinate system.
- Redistribution. The contributed data must be available for royalty-free redistribution.
- Metadata. Standard metadata describing the data, including publisher information and data characteristics described above.
