topic Terrain Basemap Water Bug in ArcGIS Online Questions

Terrain Basemap Water Bug

DeanChiang — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 18:38:22 GMT

The terrain basemap is IMO one of the best free AGOL basemaps, with the right combination of light colors, minimalism, clarity, and information, except for one persistent issue that has gone on for years and apparently is not resolved. The water bodies in the terrain basemap can often lie on top of user added feature layers and so cover up the primary overlay you are mapping. It happens in various scales and all over California (don't know about other areas). We've noticed this problem since the very first basemap digit we used in JSAPI, and the issue is still there.

Re: Terrain Basemap Water Bug

DanPatterson_Retired — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 19:17:32 GMT

is it this one you are talking about?

http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=fe44cf9a739848939988addfeba473e4

in that link there is an implied order of adding the layers.

Re: Terrain Basemap Water Bug

DeanChiang — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 20:49:46 GMT

I see. So since the water features are part of this so-called "Labels" overlay, it will always be placed on top of other feature layers even though it is supposed to be a basemap. So this behavior is a "feature" and not a bug, and likely will never be changed. I see similar comment under the World Reference Overlay home page http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=9763d83ba63048da8a2e0a71ccea4416

Thanks for pointing it out.