There are a number of posts of people looking for basemaps without labels and replies talking about the various services available. One idea came up a few times suggesting you could load the base of an ESRI Basemap directly and simply not load its corresponding reference layer.
From what I can tell, though, most of bases actually have text (for example, Canvas/World_Light_Gray_Base (MapServer)). I don't suppose there really is a light gray base kicking about somewhere that really doesn't have labels?
Cheers,
jtm
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If you want to create your own custom style using the vector basemaps you could disable the labels in your custom style.
Here, here! Really...no labels basemap needed.
If you want to create your own custom style using the vector basemaps you could disable the labels in your custom style.
Oooo...time to play!
Thanks!
Thanks for the suggestion, Russell! Works like a charm.
Hi Russell, Do you know if this exists for the new vector basemaps? I'm trying to find the World topographic maps with no labels.
Here is a blog on how to do this: Using basemaps without reference layers | ArcGIS Blog
Includes directions specific to light gray canvas. Hope this helps.
Thanks for the link, Matthew, but unfortunately that blog discusses how to add a basemap that does have labels. As I noted in my initial post, many people have already suggested what it does with respect to not including the reference layer, but that was not what I was looking for.
So, to anyone who's looking for a basemap with no labels ("no, really no labels"), you can skip the blog post above. Russell Robers response about Vector Basemaps actually delivered.
Cheers,
jtm
Any evolution on this....almost all the base maps have labels, feels like there is a need/desire for basemaps with NO labels
The ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor web application allows us to generate new styles that can be used as basemaps in our projects:
I found this to be the best way:
You can't exactly turn the labels "off", but you can turn layers on and off AND make labels smaller so that they "disappear".
Hope this helps!