{"id":2829722,"date":"2025-06-17T16:30:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T23:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=2829722"},"modified":"2025-06-18T08:35:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:35:39","slug":"world-imagery-wayback-2025-updates","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/imagery\/world-imagery-wayback-2025-updates","title":{"rendered":"World Imagery Wayback – 2025 Enhancements"},"author":372552,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22931],"tags":[40161,144002,26391],"industry":[],"product":[36581],"class_list":["post-2829722","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imagery","tag-living-atlas-of-the-world","tag-wayback","tag-world-imagery","product-arcgis-living-atlas"],"acf":{"authors":[{"ID":372552,"user_firstname":"Jill","user_lastname":"Mamini","nickname":"Jill Mamini","user_nicename":"jmamini","display_name":"Jill Mamini","user_email":"jmamini@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2025-06-11 16:24:36","user_description":"Jill Mamini is a Principal GIS Engineer on the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World Imagery team at Esri. She collaborates on the curation and publication of foundational online content and information products for ArcGIS Living Atlas.","user_avatar":""}],"short_description":"The Wayback Application has new features: Updates Mode to query recent and pending additions to the World Imagery basemap and translated labels.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

The Wayback App<\/strong><\/a>, in ArcGIS Living Atlas,<\/a> contains every release of the World Imagery basemap archive, including the current release and dating back to the February 2014 release. The application provides discovery, visualization and utility tools that help explore the archive, demonstrate change over time, and access the archive for use across the Esri platform as individual items, layers in web maps, and as tile packages for analysis or offline use.<\/p>\n

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Esri is excited to introduce some new features and functionality. Updates Mode in the Wayback App will elevate the Esri User Community’s experience by allowing them to pinpoint where updates have been published over the past year. Plus, they can get an exciting sneak peek into the future with a view of where and when pending updates to the World Imagery basemap are scheduled to occur. Alongside this new feature, the Wayback App now supports over 40 languages with the addition of Translated Reference Labels, and a more spontaneous opening map view to encourage you to keep exploring.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Updates Mode<\/h3>\n

The Updates Mode can be accessed from the tool bar on the left-hand side of the Wayback App. This level of information is only available to the Esri Community and requires an ArcGIS organizational subscription and login to access. Below is an overview of how Updates Mode displays when you first sign in.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2838952,"id":2838952,"title":"UpdatesModeOverview","filename":"UpdatesModeOverview.png","filesize":1481012,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/UpdatesModeOverview.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/imagery\/world-imagery-wayback-2025-updates\/updatesmodeoverview","alt":"","author":"372552","description":"","caption":"","name":"updatesmodeoverview","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2829722,"date":"2025-06-17 17:00:47","modified":"2025-06-17 17:00:47","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1391,"height":829,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/UpdatesModeOverview-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/UpdatesModeOverview.png","medium-width":438,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/UpdatesModeOverview.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":458,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/UpdatesModeOverview.png","large-width":1391,"large-height":829,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/UpdatesModeOverview.png","1536x1536-width":1391,"1536x1536-height":829,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/UpdatesModeOverview.png","2048x2048-width":1391,"2048x2048-height":829,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/UpdatesModeOverview-780x465.png","card_image-width":780,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/UpdatesModeOverview.png","wide_image-width":1391,"wide_image-height":829}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com\/wayback\/#active=49849&mapCenter=10.41504%2C17.77096%2C2&mode=updates&updatesLayer=Pending%2CPublished%7Cvivid-advanced%7C"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Clicking on any published or pending site within the map view will produce a pop-up that presents metadata about the publication date or pending release quarter, as well as the resolution of the imagery within the World Imagery basemap.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2838902,"id":2838902,"title":"wayback updates mode - Reykjavik popup sample","filename":"wayback-updates-mode-Reykjavik-popup-sample.png","filesize":836514,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/wayback-updates-mode-Reykjavik-popup-sample.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/imagery\/world-imagery-wayback-2025-updates\/wayback-updates-mode-reykjavik-popup-sample","alt":"","author":"372552","description":"","caption":"","name":"wayback-updates-mode-reykjavik-popup-sample","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2829722,"date":"2025-06-17 16:50:26","modified":"2025-06-17 16:50:26","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1218,"height":484,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/wayback-updates-mode-Reykjavik-popup-sample-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/wayback-updates-mode-Reykjavik-popup-sample.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":184,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/wayback-updates-mode-Reykjavik-popup-sample.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":305,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/wayback-updates-mode-Reykjavik-popup-sample.png","large-width":1218,"large-height":484,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/wayback-updates-mode-Reykjavik-popup-sample.png","1536x1536-width":1218,"1536x1536-height":484,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/wayback-updates-mode-Reykjavik-popup-sample.png","2048x2048-width":1218,"2048x2048-height":484,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/wayback-updates-mode-Reykjavik-popup-sample-826x328.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":328,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/wayback-updates-mode-Reykjavik-popup-sample.png","wide_image-width":1218,"wide_image-height":484}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

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Updates Mode provides a number of ways to filter and refine the search for newly published and pending updates to World Imagery:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n