topic Re: ESRI World Imagery Tile Capture Dates in Mapping Questions

ESRI World Imagery Tile Capture Dates

MikeMacRae — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 19:18:20 GMT

We use the ESRI World Imagery base map layer in a web mapping application. Is there any way to determine the date of an image? Specifically when were are in a large scale zoom level (say lower than 1:22,000)? ESRI's website indicates the imagery was updated in 2017, but I'm not sure if they mean every image was updated or bits and pieces here and there?

https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=10df2279f9684e4a9f6a7f08febac2a9

Re: ESRI World Imagery Tile Capture Dates

JayantaPoddar — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 04:11:08 GMT

Please check the steps in Learning more about the World Imagery basemap | ArcGIS Blog

For viewing in ArcGIS Desktop, you could just use the Identify tool. FAQ: Is it possible to determine the date of an image from the World Imagery basemap?

Re: ESRI World Imagery Tile Capture Dates

Anonymous User — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 02:43:43 GMT

Does anyone know how to get image capture dates from this layer in ArcGIS Pro?

I have to switch back to ArcMap and use identify tool to obtain it which is not ideal.

Cheers,

Re: ESRI World Imagery Tile Capture Dates

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 09:40:51 GMT

From the map tab, does the Attributes button/tool allow you to click and bring up the information? It does for features with associated tabular information

Re: ESRI World Imagery Tile Capture Dates

Anonymous User — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 22:21:16 GMT

Hi Dan,

Unfortunately this tool does not seem to work for the basemap layers in ArcGIS Pro yet. Hopefully it will soon!

Cheers,

Re: ESRI World Imagery Tile Capture Dates

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 22:23:59 GMT

Ahhh perhaps not those basemaps, but the ones i tried (standard fodder offering) it worked

Re: ESRI World Imagery Tile Capture Dates

WillyLynch2 — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 15:16:54 GMT

Add the Citations layer to your ArcGIS Pro map from the URL- https://services.arcgisonline.com/arcgis/rest/services/World_Imagery/MapServer/4 and this layer can be identified or selected and the various image details viewed such as Date, Resolution, Accuracy, Description (Platform) and Source/Source Information.

Re: ESRI World Imagery Tile Capture Dates

Anonymous User — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 08:35:54 GMT

It would be nice to see the imagery date like this when a user clicks imagery in a web map or in a WebApp app.

To do this, they could simply store it as the pixel value, and use my solution I proposed here https://community.esri.com/ideas/12329

Re: ESRI World Imagery Tile Capture Dates

CalebPourchot — Tue, 21 May 2019 18:20:32 GMT

I'm using the javascript api and for any given identify operation on the World Imagery layer you get a handful of Citation results. When you look at their properties, it would seem you could pick the one that represents the tile at the current zoom level using the "FROM_CACHE_LEVEL" and "TO_CACHE_LEVEL" fields, but in my experience these are not reliable. So you have many situations where you can visually see the change from older tiles to newer tiles and yet the citation dates don't change.

So, unless there is something I'm missing, this feature is pretty useless. Even the sample map at

https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=c03a526d94704bfb839445e80de95495

is pretty useless. It just displays all the citations in a page view. If you really care about the date at the zoom you are looking at, there is no way to tell which date applies.

Does anyone have a good idea about how to do this reliably?

Re: ESRI World Imagery Tile Capture Dates

AnnaRiling1 — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 16:47:38 GMT

This is what I use: https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=c1c2090ed8594e0193194b750d0d5f83

It shows attributes of all tiles/zoom levels when you click on a location.

Re: ESRI World Imagery Tile Capture Dates

FrankPanaro2 — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 18:59:54 GMT

This helps a lot. Much easier than opening ArcMap (which I never use anymore) and importing the basemap for your project area just to use the "i" tool to find the capture date. I thought they were going to add this date into the ArcGIS Pro metadata but as far as I know they have not as of 1/29/2020.