{"id":121791,"date":"2011-06-21T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/announcing-the-new-ocean-basemap\/"},"modified":"2011-06-21T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T20:00:00","slug":"announcing-the-new-ocean-basemap","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/mapping\/announcing-the-new-ocean-basemap","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the new Ocean basemap"},"author":4331,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[23171,27041,22821],"industry":[],"product":[],"class_list":["post-121791","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-basemaps","tag-map","tag-oceans-and-maritime"],"acf":{"short_description":"By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead\n\n\n\nThe Ocean Basemap (Ocean_Basemap) map service was published recently on ArcGIS Online (services...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><strong>By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloads2.esri.com\/MappingCenter2007\/blog\/June11Images\/ocean_basemap.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"BCS award - thumbnail\" hspace=\"5\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Ocean Basemap (Ocean_Basemap) map service was published recently on ArcGIS Online (<a title=\"ArcGIS Online: Services\" href=\"http:\/\/services.arcgisonline.com\/ArcGIS\/rest\/services\" target=\"_blank\">services.arcgisonline.com<\/a>, <a title=\"ArcGIS Online: Server\" href=\"http:\/\/services.arcgisonline.com\/ArcGIS\/rest\/services\" target=\"_blank\">server.arcgisonline.com<\/a>). This global map shows the sea floor of the oceans, along with both surface feature names and subsurface feature names. The Ocean Basemap is designed for use by GIS professionals interested in bathymetry, marine science and conservation, and ocean mapping.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nCurrently the Ocean Basemap service is available globally down to 1:1,000,000. The smallest scales use a global bathymetry dataset from the <a title=\"GEBCO\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gebco.net\/data_and_products\/gridded_bathymetry_data\/\" target=\"_blank\">General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans<\/a> GEBCO_08 grid. At 1:1,000,000 scale, the bathymetric data in U.S. waters is from the <a title=\"NOAA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration<\/a> (NOAA).<\/p>\n<p>For information on how to use the Ocean Basemap, see <a title=\"ArcGIS Online Blog: Using your own basemaps (and projection) with the ArcGIS.com map viewer\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esri.com\/Support\/blogs\/arcgisonline\/archive\/2010\/12\/16\/using-your-own-basemaps.aspx\">Using your own basemaps (and projection) with the ArcGIS.com map viewer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have questions or feedback, please post them in the <a title=\"ArcGIS Online: Forum\" href=\"http:\/\/forums.arcgis.com\/forums\/30-ArcGIS-Online\" target=\"_blank\">ArcGIS Online forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":4331,"user_firstname":"Aileen","user_lastname":"Buckley","nickname":"Aileen Buckley","user_nicename":"abuckley","display_name":"Aileen Buckley","user_email":"abuckley@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:15:57","user_description":"Dr. Aileen Buckley is a cartographer researcher and Senior Principal GIS Engineer at Esri. 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