{"id":71281,"date":"2016-03-09T13:42:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T13:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/esri-news-for-the-living-atlas-community\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:08:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:08:07","slug":"esri-news-for-the-living-atlas-community","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/3d-gis\/3d-gis\/esri-news-for-the-living-atlas-community","title":{"rendered":"Esri News for the Living Atlas Community"},"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":[23771,23341,23851,24641,25741,23261,22851,28211,22931,22841,22941,22771,25831,24371,22871,25841,23351,23051],"tags":[22951,25751,25761,23171,23241,23201,22971,22981,23951,27001,27971,26291,26611,27181,24981,40161,23151,23161,22901,26221,24391,24341,23011,37081,28601,23391,25581,29961,23401,27911,23021,23081,23101],"industry":[],"product":[36581,36551,42661],"class_list":["post-71281","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-gis","category-analytics","category-data-management","category-defense","category-electric-gas","category-field-mobility","category-national-government","category-health","category-imagery","category-local-government","category-mapping","category-natural-resources","category-petroleum","category-public-safety","category-state-government","category-telecommunications","category-transportation","category-water","tag-arcgis-content","tag-arcgis-for-electric","tag-arcgis-for-gas","tag-basemaps","tag-best-practices","tag-cartographic-design","tag-community-basemaps","tag-community-maps","tag-community-maps-program","tag-demographic-data","tag-editing","tag-esri-data","tag-gis","tag-health","tag-hydro","tag-living-atlas-of-the-world","tag-map-services","tag-maps","tag-national-government","tag-open-data","tag-public-safety","tag-python","tag-raster","tag-risk-assessment","tag-sciences","tag-spatial-analytics","tag-spatial-statistics","tag-telecom","tag-transportation","tag-tutorial","tag-updates","tag-utilities","tag-water-utilities","product-arcgis-living-atlas","product-arcgis-online","product-arcgis-solutions"],"acf":{"short_description":"With the help of our user community and partners, Esri is curating an immense and rapidly growing collection of ready-to-use maps, imager...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>With the help of our user community and partners, Esri is curating an immense and rapidly growing collection of ready-to-use maps, imagery, and geo-referenced data for the world. 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