Extracting Polygons from Basemap

[TrevorDunne10]

Is there any way I can extract the green area from the basemap to a polygon? Trying to find an quicker/easier solution than manually tracing it.

[KrishnaDaravath]

You can’t directly convert a basemap into a polygon because basemaps are just images, not real vector data.

If you need that green area as a polygon, you have 3 options:

• Manually trace it (Sketch tool)
• Use imagery and run classification tools
• Find a land cover dataset that already has boundaries

If it’s just a quick job, manual tracing is usually the fastest.

[TrevorDunne10]

Thank you!

[Robert_LeClair]

As stated above, no.  But this Learn ArcGIS lesson provides another workflow to do something similar - Extract high-resolution land cover with GeoAI | Documentation