A few months ago, we announced the Dawn of OSM Daylight in ArcGIS. The Daylight Map Distribution is a complete distribution of global OpenStreetMap data that has been enhanced with some additional data quality and integrity checks, and supplemented with additional open data.
Esri has been hosting a separate OSM Daylight vector basemap (currently in beta release) for several months, and it has been well received by users and partners. The OSM Daylight map provides all the great content provided by OpenStreetMap contributors with some additional data quality checks that help improve confidence in using the crowd-sourced open data, as well as some additional open data that adds value to the map (e.g. Microsoft Buildings, which now includes open data from Esri Community Maps contributors).
Update Coming Soon
Based on feedback, and a desire to have the OSM Daylight map be most easily accessible to the broadest set of users, we have decided to update our existing OpenStreetMap Vector Basemap to use the Daylight distribution as the data source. Esri plans to release this update in a couple weeks (ETA is June 16).
For most users and developers that are using the existing OpenStreetMap Vector Basemap via a web map or vector tile layer, you will not need to do anything to take advantage of the update. Esri will update the vector tile layer items to reference the updated data. If you have created a custom style in a vector tile layer item that you own, you will probably need to make some updates to your custom style to get full access to the updated data after the release. We will share details on that separately.
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to the team at osm@esri.com.
Happy mapping!
How does one Disable http or have http redirect to https with WABde?
Web AppBuilder Developer Edition inherits these settings from the portal it is associated with. To achieve the desired affect you’ll need to disable HTTP in your portal settings. Here is a help link that describes that process for an ArcGIS Enterprise portal – https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/latest/administer/windows/configure-https.htm. It is a similar process in ArcGIS Online (if the option exists in your Organization…depending on a few factors it may not be there as all new Organizations are HTTPS only at this point).
Hi Craig, I noticed I am not able to reply. the Blog returns a ‘sorry , that user name already exists!‘ when I try to sign in. I am using one of our support accounts instead. Our portal is already ‘https only’ enabled and yes, a redirect occurs when first hitting the 3344 port where WABde resides – against the portal chosen, however, one can modify the URI from https to http in the browser, hit enter and WABde loads non SSL (not secure) and does not redirect at this moment: [uri] :3344/webappbuilder/?action=setportalurl. Though if one continues signing into the… Read more »
Hi Michael, I believe I’m following what you’re saying and can replicate the behavior on this end. I’ll inquire with the core development team as to whether there’s an alternative solution to this (i.e. to completely disable HTTP) and post the response here if there is. In the meantime I’d encourage you to open a tech support incident on this subject as well.
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I…am so lost. Just to install OpenSSL it appears I also need Perl, among other things?
Hi Ingrid, I’m not intimately familiar with the prerequisites for openssl. I have never been prompted for Perl, but that may simply mean it already exists on my machine. In doing some quick research you may want to look into using an installer like this – https://www.ssl.com/how-to/install-openssl-on-windows-with-cygwin/. It appears you’d be able to install the Perl prerequisites along with openssl. Alternatively it might be a good idea to work with your IT department to help you get what you need.
The directions in this blog post didn’t work for me, I think is was something funky with the files created in openssl as I already had a signed CA Cert. The directions in an ESRI technical support article named “How To: Use a CA-signed SSL certificate for Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS (Developer Edition)” allowed me to get the WAB Dev Edition secured . Search for it if you get stuck, here’s the current link. https://support.esri.com/en/technical-article/000014185