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Working with color over Imagery can be a bit of a nightmare as you try to match \u00a0an ever-changing imagery palette. Fortunately, at these scales it\u2019s calmed down a bit<\/p>\n<p>The fade-in of Imagery begins around Zoom\/Level 13, and transitions completely around Zoom\/Level 17. The fades were achieved using the opacity tools in the VTSE on individual layers. Not all of them work over the same scale range though, as I tried to finesse the final look.\u00a0 Labels and some features (such as tunnel tracks) continue into the Imagery.<\/p>\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<p>The basemap is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/group.html?id=20dd19496c504cbf999c408014f88353&amp;view=list#content\">creative prototype<\/a>, but it is available for you to use with your maps. I\u2019m not planning to take it offline any time soon, but if that concerns you, make a copy to your own account via the VTSE (The content will continue to update on a regular basis, but any future style changes I make will not carry over). Of course you are free to make adjustments to your own copy, or use it as a starting point for anything else you may want to do.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/arcgis-content.maps.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=a96af7af1d8542ea9cec655e5bb1bb97\">a single tile layer<\/a> with map content and labels. I\u2019ve switched off any data layers I don\u2019t need, but they are still available to you through the VTSE.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a \u2018sandwich\u2019 version. <a href=\"https:\/\/arcgis-content.maps.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=301d2a912ba441eb816d90562d7cc4a3\">This layer<\/a> is the base, and <a href=\"https:\/\/arcgis-content.maps.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=bc05675f6ba245849c7cc3fe504f3f3f\">this one<\/a> the reference. 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