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ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World provides foundation elevation layers and tools to support analysis and visualization across the ArcGIS system. These layers get updated quarterly with high resolution elevation data from federal agencies, open sources, and community maps program. World elevation layers have been updated with many high-resolution elevation datasets.

 For more information on these updates, see this blog article by @RajinderNagi  High resolution data updates to Living Atlas World Elevation layers and tools.

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Land use/land cover (LULC) maps are a valuable tool for decision-makers at local, regional, and national levels around the world. Performing change analysis on a series of LULC maps over time can help to quantify and better understand the impacts of earth processes and human activity on our environment. 

Through the Living Atlas partnership with Impact Observatory, the annual Sentinel-2 10m Land Use/Land Cover Time Series has been updated with new data from 2023, expanding the time series to include global coverage from 2017-2023.

The Sentinel-2 Land Cover Explorer, one of the Living Atlas ready-to-use-apps, has also been updated.

For more information, see Global Land Cover Updates by @RobertWaterman 

 Visit the ArcGIS Living Atlas home page to learn about what's new and how to use content. See the ArcGIS Living Atlas blog for more blog articles that help you get the most out of Living Atlas.

Just about all of us use ArcGIS Living Atlas every day. Living Atlas is deeply integrated and integral to the ArcGIS system, so whether you are using ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Pro or other ArcGIS apps, Living Atlas is an inherent part of your mapping activities.

The recently updated Ten ways to get the most out of ArcGIS Living Atlas lists suggestions for getting the most out of ArcGIS Living Atlas in your work and workflows. 

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Visit the ArcGIS Living Atlas home page to learn about what's new and how to use content. See the ArcGIS Living Atlas blog for more blog articles that help you get the most out of Living Atlas.

A vital part of the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is the availability of public charging stations and whether that supply meets EV demand. The Electric Vehicle Charging Stations layer in ArcGIS Living Atlas can help support your EV-focused analysis, including the ratio of EVs to charging stations and EV adoption by state.

For more information, see Tracking the adoption of electric vehicles in the U.S. by @Steven_Aviles.

Also see the Electric vehicle charging story collection.

Visit the ArcGIS Living Atlas home page to learn about what's new and how to use content. See the ArcGIS Living Atlas blog for more blog articles that help you get the most out of Living Atlas.

Landsat Level-2 multispectral and multitemporal imagery is a is a critical tool for organizations that must track, and document land use and land change associated with climate change, urbanization, drought, wildfire, deforestation, and other natural processes and human activity. This collection is found in Living Atlas and sourced from the Microsoft Planetary Computer Landsat Collection 2 Level-2 data catalog on Azure.

The newly udated Landsat Explorer app leverages ArcGIS capabilities to provide an easy and compelling way to explore and unlock the wealth of information that Landsat provides.

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 To learn more about the app, see Landsat Explorer: Earth science and observation for all which includes discusions of how to use the app to get the most out of exploring Landsat imagery.

To explore the app online, go to livingatlas.arcgis.com/landsatexplorer.

Visit the ArcGIS Living Atlas home page to learn about what's new and how to use content. See the ArcGIS Living Atlas blog for more blog articles that help you get the most out of Living Atlas.

In collaboration with the US Geological Survey (USGS),the Living Atlas team recently updated Esri’s online USGS historical topographic map collection with over 1,745 new maps, bringing the total number of maps in the collection to over 181,000.

These maps are part of the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection (HTMC) which includes all the historical topographic quadrangle maps (quads) that had been printed since the USGS was established in 1879.

It is easy to explore and download these maps, or quickly create an ArcGIS Online map, using the recently updated Historical Topo Map Explorer app. The app provides a visual interface to search and explore the historical maps by geographic extent, publication year, and map scale.

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For more information, see Access Over 181,000 USGS historical topographic maps.

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Watch as Madeline Schueren shows how you can transform the way you create your maps using layers and tools from ArcGIS Living Atlas.

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The U.S. Census Bureau publishes a special tabulation of the American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates – the Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP) by race and ethnicity – every year for the Department of Justice. 

These Living Atlas layers have recently been updated, including changes to boundaries. They're important for studying voting requirements, identifying discriminatory practices and procedures, voting rights analysis, and voter turnout analysis.

For more information, see Citizen voting age population layers updated in Living Atlas.

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A good basic intro to using Map Viewer analysis tools with Living Atlas content, this recently updated blog exercise uses the Recent Earthquakes live feed and steps you through the process of determining the total population that is within proximity of an earthquake with measured shake intensity. 

 For more information, see Earthquake impact analysis using ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Living Atlas.

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Map an earthquake using ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Living Atlas has recently been updated. This blog tutorial now includes new workflows and screenshots, reflecting changes that have been made to Map Viewer over recent updates.

This blog tutorial shows you how to create your own earthquake map, in a minute or less, using Living Atlas live feeds and Map Viewer.

Visit the ArcGIS Living Atlas home page to learn about what's new and how to use content. See the ArcGIS Living Atlas blog for more blog articles that help you get the most out of Living Atlas.