Exciting Community Map Updates to World Imagery Basemap

The World Imagery map was recently updated with a few exciting new imagery contributions made available by Esri users and partners through the Community Maps program.  This includes recent, high-resolution imagery from our user community for:

• State of Texas: 2015 imagery for West Texas provided by Texas Orthoimagery Program, as shown below
• State of Maine: high-res imagery additions at very large scales provided by the Maine GeoLibrary
• Yakima, Washington: 2015 imagery provided by Yakima City & County, WA

[iframe width=”100%” height=”400″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no” marginheight=”0″ marginwidth=”0″ title=”Texas Orthoimagery Program” src=”https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=33a9b561a12d4c52855b0860e19b2210&extent=-106.4962,31.7554,-106.4804,31.7637&zoom=true&scale=true&disable_scroll=true&theme=light”]

In addition, two communities that are often featured in Esri demos and solution templates have been updated with very recent and high-resolution imagery from nearmap, an Esri partner:

• Redlands, California: home of Esri Headquarters, as shown below
• Naperville, Illinois: featured in ArcGIS for Local Government solutions

The nearmap imagery is 7cm per pixel resolution, which is suitable for display down to Level 21 (~1:282 scale) in our tiling scheme. The nearmap imagery for Redlands and Naperville was acquired in Q4 of 2015, which significantly improves the currency in these areas.

[iframe width=”100%” height=”400″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no” marginheight=”0″ marginwidth=”0″ title=”Redlands, California Imagery” src=”https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=7f76e4d08a3a4ab5a321400015b1834f&extent=-117.2011,34.0535,-117.189,34.061&zoom=true&scale=true&disable_scroll=true&theme=light”]

Additional imagery from nearmap is available by subscription through the ArcGIS Marketplace. This includes nearmap US PhotoMaps™, which provides access to current, high-resolution imagery for numerous metro areas across the United States. The nearmap imagery is provided as a temporal ArcGIS image service that includes recent imagery acquired on multiple dates for a given area, with coverage for over 50% of the US population.  The image service can be consumed in a variety of ArcGIS applications.

Esri would like to thank all of these contributors for helping to enhance and update the World Imagery basemap, one of our most popular Community Maps offerings.