{"id":175361,"date":"2011-04-28T17:18:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T17:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=175361"},"modified":"2018-12-18T10:38:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:38:57","slug":"new-world-datasets-are-now-available","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/mapping\/new-world-datasets-are-now-available","title":{"rendered":"New World datasets are 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":[23851,22941,37511],"tags":[22951,23171,23861,26501],"industry":[],"product":[36581,36551],"class_list":["post-175361","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-management","category-mapping","category-sharing-collaboration","tag-arcgis-content","tag-basemaps","tag-boundaries","tag-services","product-arcgis-living-atlas","product-arcgis-online"],"acf":{"short_description":"Esri is pleased to offer all new World Countries and World Administrative Divisions datasets to all ArcGIS users. 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They have been designed for use as a basemap that easily can be edited to fit a user\u2019s needs and view of the political world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloads2.esri.com\/blogs\/images\/dev_23813.jpg\" alt=\"World Countries\" width=\"500\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each dataset includes\u00a0attributes for name and ISO codes, along with continent information. Particularly useful are the Land_Type and Land_Rank fields which separate polygons based on their area size; these attributes can be used for rendering at different scales by providing the ability to turn off small islands which may clutter small scale views. 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