Collection date of imagery on 'satellite' basemap

Question

Is there a way to get the collection date of the aerial imagery of the current extent in a map from the satellite basemap? I was thinking i could add the world imagery as a rest service and do an identify.. but this seems quite tedious and very unefficient. I hope there's an better way that I am just missing.

FriedaL · Answer

Hi. Is there any news on that?

I would also be interested in the answer. I am looking for the exact same thing.

BradleyNeish1 · Answer

Use the first map here:  http://www.arcgis.com/features/maps/imagery.html

Navigate to your area of interest then click the map.

thanks, but that's not what i am looking for at all. i already know how to manually find a date for an area, and i've seen that map before.
let me try to explain again. inside of a js map application using the 'satellite' basemap option, i would like to have the image date always visible and dynamically update as the user zooms and pans around the map like the service layer credits do and similar to what is available in Google Earth. I can accomplish this with an identifytask and the world imagery rest service, but i was just curious if there was a more efficient way to do this. thank you.

derekswingley1 · Answer

Use the first map here:  http://www.arcgis.com/features/maps/imagery.html

Navigate to your area of interest then click the map.