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Esri is continuing the final phase of the product life cycle to fully retire the early editions of vector tile basemaps. These versions of the services were made available during the early releases of Esri Vector tile basemaps. These services entered Mature Support between early 2016 and the beginning of 2018. Their items in ArcGIS Online were tagged as \u201cDeprecated\u201d when they entered Mature Support. All updates to those services stopped when they entered Mature Support.<\/span><\/p>\n

These services will be fully retired on December 31, 2020.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All users should use the current release of vector basemaps, otherwise known as version two \u2013 V2.\u00a0Please reach out to your colleagues and remind them of the need to update their webmaps, and apps to use the current release of vector basemaps.\u00a0For any questions or concerns, please contact\u00a0<\/span>@Robert Jensen<\/span><\/a>\u200b\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Below is the list of services impacted by this change, and the recommended replacement service.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alpha service<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/basemaps.arcgis.com\/arcgis\/rest\/services\/World_Basemap\/VectorTileServer<\/a><\/p>\n

Beta service<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/basemaps.arcgis.com\/b2\/arcgis\/rest\/services\/World_Basemap\/VectorTileServer<\/a><\/p>\n

Version 1 services<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/basemaps.arcgis.com\/v1\/arcgis\/rest\/services\/World_Basemap\/VectorTileServer<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/basemaps.arcgis.com\/v1\/arcgis\/rest\/services\/World_Basemap_WGS84\/VectorTileServer<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Current Services<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/basemaps.arcgis.com\/arcgis\/rest\/services\/World_Basemap_v2\/VectorTileServer<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/basemaps.arcgis.com\/arcgis\/rest\/services\/World_Basemap_GCS_v2\/VectorTileServer<\/a><\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":8632,"user_firstname":"Robert","user_lastname":"Jensen","nickname":"Robert Jensen","user_nicename":"rjensen","display_name":"Robert Jensen","user_email":"rjensen@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-12-04 23:55:08","user_description":"Robert is a Senior Product Manager for Esri's Data & Location Services. Robert is focused on Geocoding, Routing and the ArcGIS Network Analyst solvers, as well as basemap services. 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