{"id":80831,"date":"2017-12-08T14:24:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T14:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/whats-new-with-the-ssurgo-downloader\/"},"modified":"2020-07-06T17:55:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T00:55:52","slug":"whats-new-with-the-ssurgo-downloader","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/national-government\/national-government\/whats-new-with-the-ssurgo-downloader","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s new with the SSURGO Downloader?"},"author":4911,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22851,23051],"tags":[34901,26921,24981,40161,22901,28601,30261,28451,34991],"industry":[],"product":[36581,36551,36561],"class_list":["post-80831","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-government","category-water","tag-december-2017-release","tag-esri_landscape","tag-hydro","tag-living-atlas-of-the-world","tag-national-government","tag-sciences","tag-soil","tag-ssurgo","tag-ssurgo-soils","product-arcgis-living-atlas","product-arcgis-online","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"short_description":"\tMap packages updated to the 2017 version of SSURGO\r\n\tNew application\r\n\tMap packages now on Amazon s3, resulting in much faster downloads\r\n...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<ul>\n<li>Map packages updated to the 2017 version of SSURGO<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"SSURGO Downloader\" href=\"http:\/\/arcg.is\/0uer5S\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New application<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Map packages now on Amazon s3, resulting in much faster downloads<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=cdc49bd63ea54dd2977f3f2853e07fff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SSURGO downloader<\/a> provides fast access to 2,200 ready-to-use map packages with the same suite of attributes contained in the map image layer for a hydrologic subbasin. 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