{"id":544162,"date":"2019-07-17T10:19:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T17:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=544162"},"modified":"2025-10-27T15:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:01:02","slug":"lifecycle-for-esris-hosted-raster-basemap-services","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-online\/announcements\/lifecycle-for-esris-hosted-raster-basemap-services","title":{"rendered":"Lifecycle for Esri’s hosted raster basemap services."},"author":8632,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37101],"tags":[780052,42641,23171,274192,33541],"industry":[],"product":[36841,36711,36781,36641,36671,36731,36661,36751,36761,36771,36801,36581,36831,36681,36551,36561,36851,36861,36871,36881,36891,36901,36911,36921,42661,36611,380802,37041,350952,409602,36991,36601,36931],"class_list":["post-544162","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-arcgis-data","tag-arcgis-online","tag-basemaps","tag-data-appliance","tag-vector-basemaps","product-api-python","product-bus-analyst","product-city-engine","product-collector","product-ops-dashboard","product-arcgis-earth","product-explorer","product-esri-maps-office","product-power-bi","product-esri-maps-sharepoint","product-insights","product-arcgis-living-atlas","product-js-api-arcgis","product-navigator","product-arcgis-online","product-arcgis-pro","product-arcgis-pro-net","product-api-rest","product-api-net-win-desktop","product-api-for-android","product-api-ios","product-api-java","product-api-mac-osx","product-api-cqt","product-arcgis-solutions","product-story-maps","product-arcgis-storymaps","product-streetmap-premium","product-tracker","product-urban","product-arcgis-desktop","product-developers","product-web-appbuilder-dev-ed"],"acf":{"short_description":"Esri hosts multiple raster basemap services that will enter Mature Support next year.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Updated on July 24, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

Esri is starting preparations for the future where vector tile basemaps will be the primary version of basemaps available to users in webmaps and apps. Esri vector basemaps have multiple advantages over their raster equivalents in terms of their size, their draw time performance, the ability to generate and update content quickly, and the ability for everyone to make the appearance suitable for their purposes. Esri recognizes that the community will need time and support to migrate their webmaps and apps to use a vector tile basemap service instead of a raster basemap service, and this migration will occur over a suitable period of time.<\/p>\n

To make this transition a happy experience, Esri moved several raster basemap services into Mature Support in 2020, around the time of the User Conference. Next year in July 2021, the remaining raster basemap services will move into Mature Support. Esri will identify basemap services that will replace these raster basemap services to assist users in updating their webmaps and apps.<\/p>\n

Timelines<\/h2>\n

For 2020, the raster basemaps that entered Mature Support were:<\/p>\n