Are ESRI basemaps free to use ?

[shaileshgavathe]

Hello,

Are ESRI basemaps free to use in terms of following use case?

1. No Portal or ArcGIS Online to pull the basemaps from. Portal is still being used for user authentication.

2. Use basemap tile Url like the one shown in the example below,

https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/sample-code/sandbox/?sample=basemap-custom

Do we need an API Key for this use case in order to be compliant with License Terms ?

Thanks and Regards,

Shailesh Gavathe

[LaurenBoyd · Accepted solution]

Hi @shaileshgavathe -

As long as you have ArcGIS Enterprise set up, you are able to use the ArcGIS API for JavaScript without API keys. See the Licensing Information here: https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/licensing/

You could also take advantage of our basemaps for use with an ArcGIS Online organization or ArcGIS Enterprise if not wanting to set up a custom basemap: https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/api-reference/esri-Map.html#basemaps-for-others

Hope this helps!

[shaileshgavathe]

@LaurenBoyd Thank you.

We do have a ArcGIS Portal & Server (10X) setup, which I believe you are referring to as ArcGIS Enterprise. The reason behind using ESRI Base maps directly inside our app (ArcGIS Javascript API 4X based) was so we can use external tiles directly into app instead of proxying it through Portal.

So in our use case, do we still need a Key to use ESRI hosted Base map?

Thanks again for the response and licensing terms.