{"id":69591,"date":"2015-10-01T13:45:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T13:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/our-user-community-is-updating-the-living-atlas-of-the-world\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:06:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:06:50","slug":"our-user-community-is-updating-the-living-atlas-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/3d-gis\/3d-gis\/our-user-community-is-updating-the-living-atlas-of-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Our User Community is updating the Living Atlas of the World"},"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":[23771,23851,22851,22931,22841,22941,22871],"tags":[22951,23171,23201,22971,22981,26601,40161,23151,23161,22901,26221,23011,23021,26391,23031],"industry":[],"product":[36581,36551],"class_list":["post-69591","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-gis","category-data-management","category-national-government","category-imagery","category-local-government","category-mapping","category-state-government","tag-arcgis-content","tag-basemaps","tag-cartographic-design","tag-community-basemaps","tag-community-maps","tag-living-atlas-community","tag-living-atlas-of-the-world","tag-map-services","tag-maps","tag-national-government","tag-open-data","tag-raster","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!\n\nAs part of\u00a0ArcGIS Online,\u00a0Esri\u2019s Basema...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><strong>The\u00a0<\/strong><a title=\"World Topographic Map\" href=\"http:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/living-atlas\/item\/?itemId=d5e02a0c1f2b4ec399823fdd3c2fdebd\">World Topographic Map<\/a><strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/living-atlas\/item\/?itemId=c03a526d94704bfb839445e80de95495\">World Imagery Map<\/a><strong>\u00a0have both been updated with new content!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>As 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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