topic Basemap with street/traffic direction in ArcGIS Online Questions

Basemap with street/traffic direction

mikaël — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 18:36:09 GMT

Hi,

Is there a basemap that exists for the map viewer that contains the street direction (one way streets), like there is on google maps?

Sorry if the info exists, I was not able to find anything.

Thanks!

Re: Basemap with street/traffic direction

Kelly_G — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 23:57:12 GMT

Try Open StreetMaps roads layer. Here is a link to one that Esri hosts : https://arcg.is/0SPPSK0

If you want to connect to the data directly try Overture maps or OpenStreetMap where oneway is a field: https://www.openstreetmap.org/

Re: Basemap with street/traffic direction

mikaël — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 17:52:29 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion.

I played with the feature layer a bit and there is an "oneway" field. But the table is so huge (53M rows), that it basically fails when I try to filter it or cut/join the data to just retain data for my work area.

Also, there are no arrow symbols on the , so I'm not sure how I would map the "oneway" field, I'd have to try if I could get it to work.

Re: Basemap with street/traffic direction

MappyIan — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 11:33:05 GMT

Hey @mikaël, we noticed that the Esri hosted OSM basemaps don't include the one-way direction arrows (even though the information is available in OSM). What we did was:

extract line features for our area of interest directly from OSM where oneway=yes,
load them in to ArcGIS Pro,
style them as directional arrows,
upload to ArcGIS Online,
publish as a Vector Tile Layer,
and finally combine this with the default OSM basemap.

It's not ideal because the directional markers have to be updated separately so could get out of sync with the basemap but it was the best we could do. I note that Esri have stopped updating the OSM basemaps now too, so maybe in the new Overture based basemaps will include the directional markers (we can but hope).

Hope this helps.

Re: Basemap with street/traffic direction

mikaël — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:50:10 GMT

That seems like a good enough workaround.

Thank you!