topic Re: What are ESRI Well Known Basemap Ids? in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

What are ESRI Well Known Basemap Ids?

BlairJones — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:18:05 GMT

I want to construct a BasemapGallery from a collection of Basemap. In the API reference does not provide a link to "well known Ids"; my internet search for "basemap well known id" comes up empty. So what are these "well known" ids?

From the ESRI API Reference for Basemap

// or create the basemap from a well known ID

Basemap.fromId("topo");

Good health!

Blair

Re: What are ESRI Well Known Basemap Ids?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:27:48 GMT

Blair,

Here they are:

The following are valid options: "streets" , "satellite" , "hybrid", "topo", "gray", "dark-gray", "oceans", "national-geographic", "terrain", "osm", "dark-gray-vector", gray-vector", "streets-vector", "streets-night-vector", "streets-relief-vector", "streets-navigation-vector" and "topo-vector". Property added at v3.3. The "terrain" and "dark-gray" options added at v3.12. The "dark-gray-vector", "gray-vector", "streets-vector", "streets-night-vector", "streets-relief-vector", "streets-navigation-vector" and "topo-vector" options were added at v3.16.

Re: What are ESRI Well Known Basemap Ids?

KenBuja — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:33:26 GMT

You can find them here: Map | API Reference | ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.7

Re: What are ESRI Well Known Basemap Ids?

BlairJones — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 17:08:32 GMT

Thanks Robert and Ken!

The API for Map lists 17, ESRI phrase "well known IDs" is, at best, unfortunate; they could have easily pointed to the map API.

I would like to mark both answers as "correct"; I chose Robert's because he was first with an explicit answer. I did mark Ken's "Helpful".

Now to make the rendered widget useful with features like resizable and draggable and sortable (jQuery UI).

Good health!

Blair

Re: What are ESRI Well Known Basemap Ids?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 17:18:15 GMT

Blair,

Ken's link is for the 4.x API and my list is from 3.x API. Not sure which you are using.

Re: What are ESRI Well Known Basemap Ids?

KenBuja — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 18:00:12 GMT

The documentation indirectly links to the well-known IDs. From the Basemap page, click on the link "basemap ID" in the line

Basemaps can be created from a PortalItem, from a well known basemap ID, or can be used for creating custom basemaps.

which takes you to the fromID method. In that description is the line

See Map.basemap for a list of possible values.

That takes you to the list of well-known IDs. Granted, it should be done directly in the code snippet that you showed.