{"id":173371,"date":"2010-12-14T21:45:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T21:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=173371"},"modified":"2018-12-18T10:38:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:38:58","slug":"arcgis-online-soil-survey-map-now-available","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/mapping\/arcgis-online-soil-survey-map-now-available","title":{"rendered":"ArcGIS Online Soil Survey Map now available"},"author":3881,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941,22771],"tags":[22951,23151,26501,30261],"industry":[],"product":[36581,36551],"class_list":["post-173371","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-natural-resources","tag-arcgis-content","tag-map-services","tag-services","tag-soil","product-arcgis-living-atlas","product-arcgis-online"],"acf":{"short_description":"A new specialty map service, the\u00a0Soil Survey Map\u00a0(Soil_Survey_Map), was published recently on ArcGIS Online","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>A new specialty map service, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=204d94c9b1374de9a21574c9efa31164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soil Survey Map<\/a>\u00a0(Soil_Survey_Map), was published recently on ArcGIS Online (services.arcgisonline.com, server.arcgisonline.com). This detailed map shows the<br \/>\nSoil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) by the United States Department of<br \/>\nAgriculture\u2019s Natural Resources Conservation Service. This level of mapping is designed for use by<br \/>\nlandowners, townships, and county natural resource planning and management.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloads2.esri.com\/blogs\/images\/support_2868.jpg\" alt=\"Soil Survey Map of the San Francisco Bay Area and Sierra Nevada Mountains\" width=\"477\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nuser should be knowledgeable of soils data and their characteristics. Farmland class, hydrologic, drainage, and<br \/>\nirrigation data can also be queried on the largest scale soil data layer. The soil units are symbolized by Esri to show<br \/>\nthe dominant condition order for the 12 soil orders according to Soil<br \/>\nTaxonomy. These orders include Alfisols,<br \/>\nAndisols, Aridisols, Entisols, Gelisols, Histosols, Inceptisols, Mollisols,<br \/>\nOxisols, Spodosols, Ultisols, and Vertisols.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloads2.esri.com\/blogs\/images\/support_2867.jpg\" alt=\"Soil Survey Map Legend\" width=\"141\" height=\"257\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are three<br \/>\ndifferent scale-specific layers in the map service. The largest scale data is derived by SSURGO<br \/>\nas stated above. The mid scale data<br \/>\nlayer shows the U.S. General Soil Map of general soil association units by the<br \/>\nUnited States Department of Agriculture\u2019s Natural Resources Conservation<br \/>\nService (USDA\/NRCS). It was developed by<br \/>\nthe National Cooperative Soil Survey and supersedes the State Soil Geographic<br \/>\n(STATSGO) dataset published in 1994. 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