{"id":80481,"date":"2017-11-30T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/coming-soon-updates-to-esri-vector-basemaps\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T23:41:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:41:58","slug":"coming-soon-updates-to-esri-vector-basemaps","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/mapping\/mapping\/coming-soon-updates-to-esri-vector-basemaps","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon!  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With our next update, this will also include contributed authoritative roads and administrative boundaries.<\/li>\n<li>More styles are available that don\u2019t require customization such as Human Geography, Colored Pencil, Newspaper, Mid-Century, and Nova.<\/li>\n<li>Map styles can be customized by users. 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