idea ArcGIS online basemaps: no constraints but which map? in ArcGIS Online Ideas https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-ideas/arcgis-online-basemaps-no-constraints-but-which/idi-p/946028 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BR />ESRI announced a couple of days ago:<BR /><BR />"As of the end of January, ArcGIS Online basemaps published and hosted by Esri are now freely available to all users regardless of commercial, noncommercial, internal, or external use. This means that you no longer have to pay a subscription fee for including ArcGIS Online basemaps in your commercial-use web applications."<BR /><BR />This is great<SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">! I've one suggestion:</SPAN> <P><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">When I use ArcMap and clik "file - add data from ArcGIS resource center" I have no easy way to tell which data is free of use-constraints. Would be great to be able to see right away which data can be used with no worries.</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;"> This is especially important when one has a big GIS organization to steer. </SPAN></P> <P><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">And also, I think it still says at eg. Streets (</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;"><A href="http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=9bfffc321c384852923bb15d97acbe84" target="_blank"><SPAN>http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=9bfffc321c384852923bb15d97acbe84</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">) : "To use this map in a commercial (revenue-generating) application, you must purchase an annual subscription ..."<BR /><BR />Cheers<BR />Matti / Finland</SPAN></P> <!-- content transformation source ID: 087300000008KLu --> </BODY></HTML> Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:21:59 GMT MattiPesu1 2011-02-22T07:21:59Z ArcGIS online basemaps: no constraints but which map? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-ideas/arcgis-online-basemaps-no-constraints-but-which/idi-p/946028 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BR />ESRI announced a couple of days ago:<BR /><BR />"As of the end of January, ArcGIS Online basemaps published and hosted by Esri are now freely available to all users regardless of commercial, noncommercial, internal, or external use. This means that you no longer have to pay a subscription fee for including ArcGIS Online basemaps in your commercial-use web applications."<BR /><BR />This is great<SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">! I've one suggestion:</SPAN> <P><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">When I use ArcMap and clik "file - add data from ArcGIS resource center" I have no easy way to tell which data is free of use-constraints. Would be great to be able to see right away which data can be used with no worries.</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;"> This is especially important when one has a big GIS organization to steer. </SPAN></P> <P><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">And also, I think it still says at eg. Streets (</SPAN><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;"><A href="http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=9bfffc321c384852923bb15d97acbe84" target="_blank"><SPAN>http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=9bfffc321c384852923bb15d97acbe84</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">) : "To use this map in a commercial (revenue-generating) application, you must purchase an annual subscription ..."<BR /><BR />Cheers<BR />Matti / Finland</SPAN></P> <!-- content transformation source ID: 087300000008KLu --> </BODY></HTML> Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:21:59 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-ideas/arcgis-online-basemaps-no-constraints-but-which/idi-p/946028 MattiPesu1 2011-02-22T07:21:59Z Re: ArcGIS online basemaps: no constraints but which map? - Status changed to: Closed https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-ideas/arcgis-online-basemaps-no-constraints-but-which/idc-p/1642486#M12926 Fri, 15 Aug 2025 18:18:52 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-ideas/arcgis-online-basemaps-no-constraints-but-which/idc-p/1642486#M12926 ScottBall 2025-08-15T18:18:52Z