All I wanted to find… was the Great Wall of China. I didn’t need each historic section, or attributes related to the materials used. I just wanted a basic polyline, of the Great Wall, that I could use in ArcGIS Online. I couldn’t find it.

ArcGIS Online holds so much promise for data sharing… but we are still hiding an amazing wealth of data away in silos. Data has been siloed off because of a lack of data sharing, poor metadata, permissions issues, and other reasons. But we can start to tear down some of these walls!
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