{"id":67151,"date":"2015-04-06T04:47:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T04:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/community-focus-how-hosting-imagery-on-arcgis-online-is-helping-fargo-nd\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:05:00","slug":"community-focus-how-hosting-imagery-on-arcgis-online-is-helping-fargo-nd","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/imagery\/imagery\/community-focus-how-hosting-imagery-on-arcgis-online-is-helping-fargo-nd","title":{"rendered":"Community Focus: How Hosting Imagery on ArcGIS Online is Helping Fargo, ND"},"author":7651,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22931,22941],"tags":[25651,22951,22971,22981,40161,26221,23021],"industry":[],"product":[36581,36551],"class_list":["post-67151","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imagery","category-mapping","tag-aerial-imagery","tag-arcgis-content","tag-community-basemaps","tag-community-maps","tag-living-atlas-of-the-world","tag-open-data","tag-updates","product-arcgis-living-atlas","product-arcgis-online"],"acf":{"short_description":"Organizations around the world are discovering the benefits of sharing their imagery with ArcGIS Online and the Living Atlas of the World...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Organizations around the world are discovering the benefits of sharing their imagery with ArcGIS Online and the Living Atlas of the World. Communities both large and small are applying their hosted imagery to solve problems and tackle projects.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The City of Fargo, ND has been routinely contributing to <a title=\"Esri Online Basemaps\" href=\"http:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/living-atlas\/#s=0&amp;n=0&amp;d=1&amp;col=la-basemaps:3&amp;fs=0&amp;fn=30&amp;npp=0&amp;subCat=1&amp;md=la-basemaps:100\">Esri&#8217;s Online Basemaps<\/a>\u00a0for over 5 years. &#8220;The relationship we have formed with the Esri Community Maps team definitely made it an easy decision for us and our area contributors to begin sharing imagery. 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There are thousands of organizations around the world who also understand this and are discovering how sharing their high-resolution imagery can benefit their communities.\u00a0<a title=\"Esri World Imagery Service\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=10df2279f9684e4a9f6a7f08febac2a9\">Esri&#8217;s World Imagery Service<\/a>\u00a0is one of the most popularly requested basemaps and continues to grow with user community contributions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMagery-Requests.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48192\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMagery-Requests.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1083\" height=\"696\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are three ready to use web maps that use the World Imagery service as their basemap,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=c03a526d94704bfb839445e80de95495\" target=\"_self\">Imagery<\/a>, in which both reference layers are turned off,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=716b600dbbac433faa4bec9220c76b3a\" target=\"_self\">Imagery with Labels<\/a>, which has World Boundaries and Places turned on but World Transportation turned off, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=d802f08316e84c6592ef681c50178f17\" target=\"_self\">Imagery with Labels and Transportation<\/a>, which has both reference layers turned on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World Imagery Collection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2015\/04\/WorldImagery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48199\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2015\/04\/WorldImagery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1502\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever seen a problem in the Esri World Imagery Map that you wanted to see fixed?\u00a0 You can use the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=ebdfa4146680410bb952c7d532ea5407\" target=\"_self\">Imagery Map Feedback web map<\/a>\u00a0to provide feedback on issues or errors that you see.\u00a0 The feedback will be reviewed by the ArcGIS Online team and considered for one of our updates.<\/p>\n<p>The ArcGIS Content team is actively seeking high-resolution imagery. 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