Mapping

New Updates to Esri’s Online Basemaps

Thanks to contributors, the large-scale map layers in Esri's online basemaps keep growing and improving. You can find building footprints...

Keepers of the Rain Forest

Austrian native Richard Resl has carved out a life helping indigenous people in Ecuador protect their land and way of life.

Learn to Rotate Point Symbols in Web Maps

Learn how to create rotating symbols for web maps. Symbols on web maps can be rotated based on a numeric value in the azimuth system...

Mahika’s Story Map

Eighth grader Mahika Srivastava combined her interest in history and geography when she created History of India...

Geography Drives Business for Cirque du Soleil

Cirque du Soleil uses GIS to better understand where its customer base is located.

How to Create a Heat Map and Why

Esri education manager Joseph Kerski demonstrates how to create a heat map in ArcGIS Online and explains the usefulness of...

From the Netherlands, with Love

A new web app shows how the topographic and cartographic history of the Netherlands has transformed over two centuries.

Hexagons for Your Data

More cartographers, GIS professionals, and others, are using hexagons to visualize data on their maps.

Study Extreme Temps with Web Maps

Students can use ArcGIS Online maps and data to investigate temperature extremes around the world. A lesson is included.

Make Beautiful Maps

Esri strives to help you make visually stunning and useful maps, quickly and confidently...

Make Your Maps Pop

Esri’s next-generation hillshade is the Multi-Directional Hillshade image service, inspired by the late Swiss cartographer Eduard Imhof.

A Story Map (Royal) Wedding

Storybook weddings can be told using Esri Story Maps apps; case in point, the recent royal wedding at Windsor Castle in Great Britain...