{"id":79741,"date":"2017-10-05T23:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T23:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/whats-new-in-vector-basemaps-october-2017\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T23:42:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:42:31","slug":"whats-new-in-vector-basemaps-october-2017","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/mapping\/mapping\/whats-new-in-vector-basemaps-october-2017","title":{"rendered":"What's new in Vector Basemaps (October 2017)"},"author":6081,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[22951,23171,22971,23951,40161,33541,29031],"industry":[],"product":[36581,36551],"class_list":["post-79741","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-arcgis-content","tag-basemaps","tag-community-basemaps","tag-community-maps-program","tag-living-atlas-of-the-world","tag-vector-basemaps","tag-vector-tile","product-arcgis-living-atlas","product-arcgis-online"],"acf":{"short_description":"Updated December 8, 2017:\u00a0 The Esri Vector Basemaps were recently updated to a new version (v2). The best way to access them in ArcGIS O...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Updated December 8, 2017:<\/strong>\u00a0 The Esri Vector Basemaps were recently updated to a new version (v2). The best way to access them in ArcGIS Online is through the Esri owned\u00a0<\/span>Vector Basemaps group<\/a>, which contains the latest set of web maps and tile layers. See\u00a0<\/span>What\u2019s New in Esri Vector Basemaps (December 2017)<\/a>\u00a0for information related to this update.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nova<\/a> <\/strong>is a brand new vector basemap map style that brings an extraterrestrial look and feel to mapping our world. The colors and fonts are reminiscent of something you’d expect to see in the latest Sci-Fi movie, as if you were viewing the map on a heads-up display. There are detailed graphics in open ocean areas and landuse features are limited to striped or square stippled patterns to enhance the vibe this map emanates. Maintaining limited geometric patterns – including the\u00a0clean, squarish, sans serif fonts – and a cool color scheme provides a less terrestrial, more futuristic and technology-inspired feel to the map’s interface. There are even glowing starbursts used for city points.<\/p>\n

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Esri cartographer Cindy Prostak’s original inspiration for the Nova style was the graphic on the ArcGIS.com home page.<\/a><\/p>\n

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We’ve already put this new Nova style to good use. It’s featured in a Story Map titled Broken Arrows<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>showing where all the U.S. DoD documented accidents involving nuclear weapons occurred.<\/p>\n

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New Map\u00a0Content<\/span><\/h2>\n

Our recent updates to map content include Asia Pacific regional data updates from HERE.\u00a0 If you are a steward for your local, city, county, state, region or nation data sets, we encourage you to join and contribute data and maps through the\u00a0Living Atlas of the World<\/a> Community Maps Program<\/a>.\u00a0These new and updated communities below are found in all the Esri vector map styles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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