Basemaps | Digital Maps for Apps

Bring the power of location to your applications and workflows with basemaps, which are ready-to-use maps that serve as the geographic foundation for your apps. Access a global collection of basemaps with localized languages and geographies, which can be customized to meet your unique needs.

The benefits of basemaps

Understand geographic context

Basemaps serve as a foundational layer in your applications. Choose from dozens of prestyled basemaps designed by Esri’s team of professional cartographers.
Realistic depictions of the earth at multiple scales

Basemaps use authoritative data as reference sources to produce maps for global and local geographies. Available in more than 40 languages, basemaps provide a global digital mapping solution trusted by commercial, governmental, and scientific agencies around the world.
Customizable by design

Choose from a variety of prepared maps that can be personalized to fit your needs. Basemaps enable dynamic cartography with the flexibility to create your own styles. You can customize your map with the colors, patterns, and labels that meet your organization's unique needs.

Choose a map style

Select a map that meets your needs. Basemaps are interactive and authoritative, including styles that represent topographic features, road networks, footpaths, building footprints, water features, administrative boundaries, and satellite imagery.

Four rectangular sections displaying different basemap styles overlaid with a street map within a circular border

Embed basemaps directly into your app

Quickly add Esri basemaps to your applications. Maps are optimized for web, mobile, and desktop applications.

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Select from more than 40 languages

Ready-to-use maps that give you the ability to localize place labels for any basemap style in the language of your choice.

A pair of hands belonging to an unseen person typing on a laptop displaying a grayscale country map

Incorporate raster tiles into your applications and solutions

Enhance the interactivity and accessibility of maps within your applications with the ArcGIS Static Basemap Tiles service. This service enables you to build apps that display rasterized basemap tiles in PNG format, include labels based on your preferred language, and choose from a variety of basemap styles to meet your development needs.

A map of the midwestern United States in beige and blue, overlaid with a popout map of the world and a legend of available map layers

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Create your account and take advantage of our free tier to access all the features and services of ArcGIS Location Platform. Then, pay only for what you consume with our pay-as-you-go model.

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