Esri News for Community Maps Program delivers program news, tips and tricks, user success stories, training event listings, updates, and bulletins, in addition to highlighting participant contributions.

World Topographic Map New Design

The newly designed World Topographic Map is now available. The initial rollout has global coverage from 1:591,000,000 down to 1:72,000. In the United States, Mexico, and Europe, the new design persists down to large scales. At scales larger than 1:72,000, where there are community participants or where NAVTEQ data is used (outside the United States, Mexico, and Europe), you will continue to see the old design.
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ArcGIS Data Reviewer Software for CM Program Participants

Esri is offering a special software promotion to Community Maps Program contributors. The ArcGIS Data Reviewer for Desktop extension is being offered for only the cost of maintenance to organizations that contribute content to the program. Read More »

Visualizing Bathymetric Data Using the Ocean Basemap

The Ocean Basemap includes data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), which is the US national archive for bathymetric data. Read More »

New Community Maps Online Help Now Available

Comprehensive online documentation for the Community Maps Program is now available from the Community Maps resource center. Read More »

Contributor Success Story

Contributors to the Community Maps Program are being highlighted in a series of short success stories. This month features the City of Tulsa, Oklahoma, building on its map contribution and reaching citizens through web maps. Read More »

Maps and Applications

Explore the Maps and Apps Gallery on the newly designed Community Maps resource center to view examples of shared map presentations and innovative approaches in leveraging your map contributions. This month features Esri story maps. Story maps combine intelligent web maps with web applications and templates that incorporate text, multimedia, and interactive functions. Read More »

Latest Contributors

Share your authoritative content by joining our program. To date, there are 262 published caches on the World Topographic Map, with another 384 communities in different stages of production.