{"id":69401,"date":"2015-09-17T14:35:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T14:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/esri-updates-world-topographic-and-world-imagery-maps\/"},"modified":"2019-10-25T13:29:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T20:29:28","slug":"esri-updates-world-topographic-and-world-imagery-maps","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/3d-gis\/3d-gis\/esri-updates-world-topographic-and-world-imagery-maps","title":{"rendered":"Esri Updates World Topographic and World Imagery Maps"},"author":7651,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23771,23851,22931,22841,22941,22871],"tags":[22951,22971,22981,26601,40161,23151,23161,26221,23021,26391,23031],"industry":[],"product":[36581,36551],"class_list":["post-69401","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-gis","category-data-management","category-imagery","category-local-government","category-mapping","category-state-government","tag-arcgis-content","tag-community-basemaps","tag-community-maps","tag-living-atlas-community","tag-living-atlas-of-the-world","tag-map-services","tag-maps","tag-open-data","tag-updates","tag-world-imagery","tag-world-topographic-map","product-arcgis-living-atlas","product-arcgis-online"],"acf":{"short_description":"The\u00a0World Topographic Map\u00a0and\u00a0World Imagery Map\u00a0have both been updated with new content!\u00a0Esri is curating an immense and rapidly gro...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><em><strong>The\u00a0<a title=\"World Topographic Map\" href=\"http:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/living-atlas\/item\/?itemId=d5e02a0c1f2b4ec399823fdd3c2fdebd\">World Topographic Map<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>and\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/living-atlas\/item\/?itemId=c03a526d94704bfb839445e80de95495\"><em>World Imagery Map<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>have both been updated with new content!<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Esri is curating an immense and rapidly growing collection of ready-to-use maps, imagery, and geo-referenced data for the world. This online collection of authoritative content, together with the new Web GIS pattern, is having a profound impact on the way people apply GIS.\u00a0As part of\u00a0<a title=\"ArcGIS Online\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/features\/features.html\">ArcGIS Online<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Esri 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\u2019s Basemaps<\/a>\u00a0support a vast GIS community. 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Subscribe to the\u00a0<em>E<\/em><em>sri News for the Living Atlas Community<\/em>. You can have the newsletter sent right to your inbox by subscribing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/publications\/apps\/subscriptions\/index.cfm?fuseaction=esriPubs.selectedpub&amp;news=community_maps\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Share your story<\/strong>: How has contributing to the Living Atlas Community benefited your organization and community? Has your participation helped meet a particular challenge? Has your applied use of Living Atlas content solved a problem or help meet a goal? Email us at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:communitymaps@esri.com\">communitymaps@esri.com<\/a>\u00a0so we can promote your success. Here is a great example:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esri.com\/esri\/arcgis\/2015\/04\/06\/how-the-city-of-fargo-nd-is-leveraging-their-imagery-contribution\/\">Community Focus: How Hosting Imagery on ArcGIS Online is Helping Fargo, ND<\/a><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Feedback<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If you have previously used the World_Topo_Map or World_Imagery, you may need to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/arcgis-online\/reference\/troubleshoot.htm#anchor1\">clear your cache<\/a>\u00a0in order to see the updates.<\/p>\n<p>If you have feedback on content, try our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=6365ecd9bd6046d4986159d557e67971\">Topographic Map Feedback web map<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=ebdfa4146680410bb952c7d532ea5407\">Imagery Map Feedback web map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have other feedback or comments, please post them to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/geonet.esri.com\/community\/gis\/web-gis\/arcgisonline\">ArcGIS Online Discussion Group<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/geonet.esri.com\/groups\/livingatlas\">Living Atlas Discussion Group<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/geonet.esri.com\/welcome\">GeoNet<\/a>.<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":7651,"user_firstname":"Shane","user_lastname":"Matthews","nickname":"Shane Matthews","user_nicename":"shnmat","display_name":"Shane Matthews","user_email":"SMatthews@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-26 19:39:35","user_description":"Shane is a Senior Product Engineer for Esri's ArcGIS Content Team. 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