Map Object Properties: How do I tell if it's a basemap programmatically?

abaldenweck@blm.gov_BLM_EGIS

I have several map objects in my APRX. One of them is specifically a basemap object, created using "Right-click-->New--> New Basemap"

What I'm running into now is: How do I tell that it's a Basemap using arcpy? 

Looking at the actual documentation for both the APRX and the Map objects, it doesn't seem possible, which is bizarre.

 

Brian_Wilson

I did some testing and found the isBasemapLayer of a layer would only tell me if the layer was an ESRI basemap, not my own.

When I created a map, and examined it in the debugger, I found it has a mapType of BASEMAP.

This snippet lists the name and type of each map in my project.

I found this by looking in the map objects in the debugger. (Visual Studio Code in my case)

import arcpy
p = "K:/Taxmaps/taxmaps2.aprx"
project = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject(p)
print()
map = project.listMaps(wildcard="*")
for m in map:
    print("map:", m.name, " type:", m.mapType)
pass

Output from code:

map: Clatsop County B&W tiles type: BASEMAP
map: County Overview Map type: MAP
map: Map type: MAP
map: Main Map type: MAP
map: Section Overview Map type: MAP
map: Township Overview Map type: MAP