{"id":1164022,"date":"2021-03-25T04:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=1164022"},"modified":"2021-03-24T21:03:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T04:03:33","slug":"whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s new in Esri Vector Basemaps (March 2021)"},"author":6081,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37101,22941],"tags":[23171,462512,28771,33541,758892],"industry":[],"product":[36581],"class_list":["post-1164022","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-mapping","tag-basemaps","tag-esri-vector-basemaps","tag-localization","tag-vector-basemaps","tag-whats-new-march-2021","product-arcgis-living-atlas"],"acf":{"short_description":"Our latest release last week included basemap data updates, new contributor content, and improvements to several styles.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><span class=\"ph\">Our release last week included basemap data updates, new contributor content, and improvements to several styles. Additionally, we released localized versions of our maps in six more languages. Esri<\/span> vector basemaps are available in the following languages, the newest additions shown in <strong>bold<\/strong>: Arabic, Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, <strong>Estonian<\/strong>, Finnish, French, German, <strong>Greek<\/strong>, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, <strong>Latvian<\/strong>, <strong>Lithuanian<\/strong>, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, <strong>Thai<\/strong>, Turkish, Ukrainian, and <strong>Vietnamese<\/strong>. We have maps in more languages being prepared for release mid-year.<\/p>\n<section id=\"anchor76\" class=\"qa padded-anchor\">\n<div id=\"ESRI_QUESTIONANSWER_F4C3DEB70D1B415A9138694867433AD3\" class=\"answer\">\n<div id=\"GUID-DBFA596F-2D5C-48AC-B223-0D53A787D9D8\" class=\"panel trailer-1 note\">\n<p id=\"GUID-5B9F87C7-CE7A-408D-A060-140F0041A152\">To specify one of these languages for your organization,\u00a0<a class=\"xref xref\" href=\"https:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/arcgis-online\/administer\/configure-general.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_CF88D4923E734DFF901ED9A7DED6FB63\">update the organization&#8217;s region and language settings<\/a>\u00a0and ensure that your organization is\u00a0<a class=\"xref xref\" href=\"https:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/arcgis-online\/administer\/configure-map.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_17B291E2795F4FCEA047F466E57989A8\">configured to use\u00a0<span class=\"ph\">Esri<\/span>\u00a0vector basemaps<\/a>\u00a0as the default basemap gallery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1165432,"id":1165432,"title":"EsriLocalization_R04-2021","filename":"EsriLocalization_R04-2021.jpg","filesize":22526,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/EsriLocalization_R04-2021.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021\/esrilocalization_r04-2021","alt":"Esri Localization","author":"6081","description":"","caption":"","name":"esrilocalization_r04-2021","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1164022,"date":"2021-03-19 03:49:04","modified":"2021-03-19 03:49:22","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":900,"height":250,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/EsriLocalization_R04-2021-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/EsriLocalization_R04-2021.jpg","medium-width":464,"medium-height":129,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/EsriLocalization_R04-2021.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":213,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/EsriLocalization_R04-2021.jpg","large-width":900,"large-height":250,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/EsriLocalization_R04-2021.jpg","1536x1536-width":900,"1536x1536-height":250,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/EsriLocalization_R04-2021.jpg","2048x2048-width":900,"2048x2048-height":250,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/EsriLocalization_R04-2021-826x229.jpg","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":229,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/EsriLocalization_R04-2021.jpg","wide_image-width":900,"wide_image-height":250}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/search.html?q=%20%22ArcGIS%20Online%20Vector%20Basemaps%22&amp;start=1&amp;sortOrder=asc&amp;sortField=owner#groups"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<hr \/>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h3>Style Editor<\/h3>\n<p>A key benefit using Esri Vector Basemaps is custom cartographic styling. Through the Vector Tile Style Editor, put a unique touch on your map\u2019s look. The Quick Editor feature single click color changes across the map. Don\u2019t like the results? Click again. Fine tune the map style through layer control changes. Turn features off. Change colors. Replace typefaces. Adjust line widths. These are the tip of what can be done to make your mark on your design. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.arcgis.com\/vector-tile-style-editor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">editor is accessible through this app<\/a>\u00a0or from the \u201cchange style\u201d icon in the map viewer. See\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.arcgis.com\/documentation\/vector-tile-style-editor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supporting documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1165442,"id":1165442,"title":"VectorStyleEditor-R04-2021","filename":"VectorStyleEditor-R04-2021.jpg","filesize":56223,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/VectorStyleEditor-R04-2021.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021\/vectorstyleeditor-r04-2021","alt":"Esri Vector Tile Style Editor","author":"6081","description":"","caption":"","name":"vectorstyleeditor-r04-2021","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1164022,"date":"2021-03-19 03:49:08","modified":"2021-03-19 03:49:47","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1233,"height":331,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/VectorStyleEditor-R04-2021-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/VectorStyleEditor-R04-2021.jpg","medium-width":464,"medium-height":125,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/VectorStyleEditor-R04-2021.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":206,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/VectorStyleEditor-R04-2021.jpg","large-width":1233,"large-height":331,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/VectorStyleEditor-R04-2021.jpg","1536x1536-width":1233,"1536x1536-height":331,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/VectorStyleEditor-R04-2021.jpg","2048x2048-width":1233,"2048x2048-height":331,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/VectorStyleEditor-R04-2021-826x222.jpg","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":222,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/VectorStyleEditor-R04-2021.jpg","wide_image-width":1233,"wide_image-height":331}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/developers.arcgis.com\/vector-tile-style-editor"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<hr \/>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h3>Data Contributions and Community Map Editor<\/h3>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com\/en\/participate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Community Maps Program for Basemaps<\/a>\u00a0uses the best available data sources to produce a wide variety of multi-scale, online basemaps. These maps serve as a foundation for almost any GIS task. Provide your organization\u2019s authoritative data to enhance the map. If you don\u2019t have a collection of data layers to provide, but still want to contribute, consider adding content through the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/group.html?id=64e36ea57a7840669cbd20ed0b5c6174#overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Community Maps Editor app<\/a>. Edit parts of the Esri Community Maps basemap to add detailed features for universities, schools, parks, landmarks, and other special areas of interest.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1165422,"id":1165422,"title":"CommunityMaps_R04_2021","filename":"CommunityMaps_R04_2021.jpg","filesize":37578,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CommunityMaps_R04_2021.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021\/communitymaps_r04_2021","alt":"Community Map Program","author":"6081","description":"","caption":"","name":"communitymaps_r04_2021","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1164022,"date":"2021-03-19 03:49:01","modified":"2021-03-19 03:50:04","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":923,"height":332,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CommunityMaps_R04_2021-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CommunityMaps_R04_2021.jpg","medium-width":464,"medium-height":167,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CommunityMaps_R04_2021.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":276,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CommunityMaps_R04_2021.jpg","large-width":923,"large-height":332,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CommunityMaps_R04_2021.jpg","1536x1536-width":923,"1536x1536-height":332,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CommunityMaps_R04_2021.jpg","2048x2048-width":923,"2048x2048-height":332,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CommunityMaps_R04_2021-826x297.jpg","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":297,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CommunityMaps_R04_2021.jpg","wide_image-width":923,"wide_image-height":332}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/group.html?id=64e36ea57a7840669cbd20ed0b5c6174#overview"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<hr \/>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h3>Feedback<\/h3>\n<p>Need to make a correction to one of our maps? Our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/group.html?id=e796c4f5b27b431a804184fc51d10b40#overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Feedback Services<\/a>\u00a0are built for this purpose. Mark up the map and enter the details. We\u2019ll review and publish the edit to the basemaps.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":915671,"id":915671,"title":"Esri Vector Feedback","filename":"June_VectorFeedback.jpg","filesize":21095,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/June_VectorFeedback.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-june-2020\/june_vectorfeedback","alt":"Esri Vector Feedback","author":"6081","description":"","caption":"","name":"june_vectorfeedback","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":892941,"date":"2020-07-02 19:55:38","modified":"2020-07-02 21:02:41","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1014,"height":168,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/June_VectorFeedback-213x168.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":168,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/June_VectorFeedback.jpg","medium-width":464,"medium-height":77,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/June_VectorFeedback.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":127,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/June_VectorFeedback.jpg","large-width":1014,"large-height":168,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/June_VectorFeedback.jpg","1536x1536-width":1014,"1536x1536-height":168,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/June_VectorFeedback.jpg","2048x2048-width":1014,"2048x2048-height":168,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/June_VectorFeedback-826x137.jpg","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":137,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/07\/June_VectorFeedback.jpg","wide_image-width":1014,"wide_image-height":168}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/group.html?id=e796c4f5b27b431a804184fc51d10b40#overview"}],"authors":[{"ID":6081,"user_firstname":"Robert","user_lastname":"Green","nickname":"Andrew Green","user_nicename":"robe6923","display_name":"Andrew Green","user_email":"robert_green@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:17:55","user_description":"Andy is the Project Manager for the Basemaps in the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Creating and updating the basemaps is a collaboration of the Community Maps, Data, Authoring, QA, Release, and Development teams.","user_avatar":"<img data-del=\"avatar\" src='https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/07\/6EF23BEF-AE42-441E-A57D-6D6240E5A9DD-213x200.jpeg' class='avatar pp-user-avatar avatar-96 photo ' height='96' width='96'\/>"}],"related_articles":[{"ID":1002202,"post_author":"8632","post_date":"2020-09-09 10:24:59","post_date_gmt":"2020-09-09 17:24:59","post_content":"","post_title":"Esri's hosted raster basemap services moving to Mature Support","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"esris-hosted-raster-basemap-services-moving-to-mature-support","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-10-27 14:58:58","post_modified_gmt":"2025-10-27 21:58:58","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=1002202","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"3","filter":"raw"},{"ID":1105921,"post_author":"4491","post_date":"2021-01-07 16:00:11","post_date_gmt":"2021-01-08 00:00:11","post_content":"","post_title":"Towards a DARK Accessible Basemap","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"towards-a-dark-accessible-basemap","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-01-07 16:17:20","post_modified_gmt":"2021-01-08 00:17:20","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=1105921","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":1043071,"post_author":"4491","post_date":"2020-10-22 10:57:57","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-22 17:57:57","post_content":"","post_title":"Towards an Accessible Basemap","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"towards-an-accessible-basemap","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-11-04 12:25:42","post_modified_gmt":"2020-11-04 20:25:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=1043071","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"2","filter":"raw"}],"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/March_R04-2021_card.jpg","wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/March_R04-2021_banner.jpg"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What&#039;s new in Esri Vector Basemaps (March 2021)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Our release last week included basemap data updates, new contributor content, and improvements to several styles. Additionally, we released localized versions of our maps in six more languages.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What&#039;s new in Esri Vector Basemaps (March 2021)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our release last week included basemap data updates, new contributor content, and improvements to several styles. Additionally, we released localized versions of our maps in six more languages.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ArcGIS Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/esrigis\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ESRI\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"Article\",\"BlogPosting\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Andrew Green\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/50a1409262a6937a996d41ec196403af\"},\"headline\":\"What&#8217;s new in Esri Vector Basemaps (March 2021)\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-25T11:00:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021\"},\"wordCount\":8,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"basemaps\",\"Esri vector basemaps\",\"localization\",\"vector basemaps\",\"what's new march 2021\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Announcements\",\"Mapping\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021\",\"name\":\"What's new in Esri Vector Basemaps (March 2021)\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-25T11:00:59+00:00\",\"description\":\"Our release last week included basemap data updates, new contributor content, and improvements to several styles. Additionally, we released localized versions of our maps in six more languages.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"What&#8217;s new in Esri Vector Basemaps (March 2021)\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/\",\"name\":\"ArcGIS Blog\",\"description\":\"Get insider info from Esri product teams\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Esri\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Esri.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Esri.png\",\"width\":400,\"height\":400,\"caption\":\"Esri\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/esrigis\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/ESRI\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/5311\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/50a1409262a6937a996d41ec196403af\",\"name\":\"Andrew Green\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/07\/6EF23BEF-AE42-441E-A57D-6D6240E5A9DD-213x200.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/07\/6EF23BEF-AE42-441E-A57D-6D6240E5A9DD-213x200.jpeg\",\"caption\":\"Andrew Green\"},\"description\":\"Andy is the Project Manager for the Basemaps in the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Creating and updating the basemaps is a collaboration of the Community Maps, Data, Authoring, QA, Release, and Development teams.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/author\/robe6923\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"What's new in Esri Vector Basemaps (March 2021)","description":"Our release last week included basemap data updates, new contributor content, and improvements to several styles. Additionally, we released localized versions of our maps in six more languages.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"What's new in Esri Vector Basemaps (March 2021)","og_description":"Our release last week included basemap data updates, new contributor content, and improvements to several styles. Additionally, we released localized versions of our maps in six more languages.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021","og_site_name":"ArcGIS Blog","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/esrigis\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_site":"@ESRI","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":["Article","BlogPosting"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021"},"author":{"name":"Andrew Green","@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/50a1409262a6937a996d41ec196403af"},"headline":"What&#8217;s new in Esri Vector Basemaps (March 2021)","datePublished":"2021-03-25T11:00:59+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021"},"wordCount":8,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#organization"},"keywords":["basemaps","Esri vector basemaps","localization","vector basemaps","what's new march 2021"],"articleSection":["Announcements","Mapping"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021","url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021","name":"What's new in Esri Vector Basemaps (March 2021)","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2021-03-25T11:00:59+00:00","description":"Our release last week included basemap data updates, new contributor content, and improvements to several styles. Additionally, we released localized versions of our maps in six more languages.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/announcements\/whats-new-in-esri-vector-basemaps-march-2021#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"What&#8217;s new in Esri Vector Basemaps (March 2021)"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/","name":"ArcGIS Blog","description":"Get insider info from Esri product teams","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#organization","name":"Esri","url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Esri.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Esri.png","width":400,"height":400,"caption":"Esri"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/esrigis\/","https:\/\/x.com\/ESRI","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/5311\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/50a1409262a6937a996d41ec196403af","name":"Andrew Green","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/07\/6EF23BEF-AE42-441E-A57D-6D6240E5A9DD-213x200.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/07\/6EF23BEF-AE42-441E-A57D-6D6240E5A9DD-213x200.jpeg","caption":"Andrew Green"},"description":"Andy is the Project Manager for the Basemaps in the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Creating and updating the basemaps is a collaboration of the Community Maps, Data, Authoring, QA, Release, and Development teams.","url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/author\/robe6923"}]}},"text_date":"March 25, 2021","author_name":"Andrew Green","author_page":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/author\/robe6923","custom_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/03\/March_R04-2021_banner.jpg","primary_product":"ArcGIS Living Atlas","tag_data":[{"term_id":23171,"name":"basemaps","slug":"basemaps","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":23171,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":191,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":462512,"name":"Esri vector basemaps","slug":"esri-vector-basemaps","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":462512,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":8,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":28771,"name":"localization","slug":"localization","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":28771,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":4,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":33541,"name":"vector basemaps","slug":"vector-basemaps","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":33541,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":95,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":758892,"name":"what's new march 2021","slug":"whats-new-march-2021","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":758892,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"}],"category_data":[{"term_id":37101,"name":"Announcements","slug":"announcements","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":37101,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1964,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":22941,"name":"Mapping","slug":"mapping","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":22941,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":2692,"filter":"raw"}],"product_data":[{"term_id":36581,"name":"ArcGIS Living Atlas","slug":"arcgis-living-atlas","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":36581,"taxonomy":"product","description":"","parent":0,"count":1171,"filter":"raw"}],"primary_product_link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?s=#&products=arcgis-living-atlas","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/1164022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/1164022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164022"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1164022"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1164022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}