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Hi Corey Metz, Thanks for the questions. Can you send me a direct email (robert_green@esri.com) with the details of some of your OSM edits from April so we can investigate. I can follow up with you and also post a reply on this thread.
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This post was originally published on the Esri ArcGIS.com blog. As the month of June came to a close, we updated our Esri Vector Basemaps tile set. New content was contributed from our commercial, community, and open source data providers. Additionally, three new styles were released: Navigation (Dark Mode), National Geographic Style, and Watercolour. The latter two are described in more detail in their own blogs posted by the cartographer who designed the maps. First,Wes Jones shares info on Watercolour. Next up, Andy Skinner shares info on National Geographic Style. New Esri Vector Basemap designs: National Geographic Style and Watercolour https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/?post_type=blog&p=545922&preview=true Navigation (Dark Mode) The newly released Navigation (Dark Mode) is a counterpart to our existing Navigation style vector basemaps. The dark mode map was built with the Esri Tracker App in mind. This provides a basemap for low-light conditions and emphasizing the purpose of the app: asset location tracking. It can also be used in other situations where you want to symbolize your own content on a darker background. This Navigation (Dark Mode) joins our three other dark-focused designs: Streets (Night), Dark Gray Canvas, and Human Geography Dark. Each of these Esri Vector Basemaps have their own unique styling and content specs. They also have their own daytime or lighter-style counterpart. New map style: Navigation (Dark Mode) Esri vector basemap Our OpenStreetMap vector tile set was updated, too. It is built from the Esri-maintained OSM replica database. Two other OSM-based styles are now available. See this separate blog. Vector Tile Style Editor The Esri Vector Tile Style Editor is coming out of Beta. It is available on this Developer site to restyle vector basemaps. With the latest ArcGIS Online update, the vector style editor is accessible from within the Map Viewer of ArcGIS.com. Launch the app from the icon under a vector layer. See image at left. Do a Quick Edit restyling (one click gets you a completely restyled map) or change more parameters using the in-depth Style by Layer. Your options to redesign the a map are essentially unlimited. Accessible from the Developer Site or from within the Map Viewer, the Vector Tile Style Editor can create one-of-a-kind custom tile layers. WGS84/GCS We’ve expanded our collection of vector basemap styles for those users wanting the WGS84/GCS tiling scheme. The vector maps that utilize a raster base layer (e.g. Imagery Hybrid (WGS84)) are ready-to-use. Web maps include the correct base layers. Community Maps The last topic of new updates related to Esri vector basemaps this release. We now offer users this collection called Esri Vector Basemaps (Community Maps). We heard your requests. Include *ALL* the data that communities are providing through the Community Maps Program. This includes community roads and administrative boundary lines. The maps in this group do just that! Now, this version of vector basemap styles: Street, Navigation, Canvas, etc. present the community content — without users saving their own json styles. We’ve done it for you. All these maps include “(Community Maps)” in their title. Esri Vector Basemaps: Feedback Ever see a problem with Esri Vector Basemap data or display? Report issues directly on this Feedback Map. As a result, our team reviews your comments and considers the update for one of our frequent releases. GeoNet: the Esri community Visit the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World product page on GeoNet. Ask questions, share updates and custom styles, and browse this space for the content you need! Stop by say, “Hi!” at this year’s User Conference Finally, if you’re in San Diego for the 2019 Esri User Conference, stop at the Living Atlas Basemaps kiosk. We’re in the Data & Location Services area of the expo. Get your questions answered from the team of cartographers making the maps. Or just stop by to say, “Hi!”, because we’ll have buttons and stickers to collect. For a selection of Tech Workshops and Demo Theater topics, use keyword vector basemaps in the searchable online UC agenda. Session topics range from adding your data via the Community Maps Editor app to contributing larger amounts of content through the Community Maps Program. Learn best practices for building you own vector tiles in addition to how to find the best basemap for your use. For you creative types, learn how to restyle ready-made vector basemaps from the Living Atlas. There is so much to explore!
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This post was originally published on the ArcGIS blog page. Last summer, we introduced a new OpenStreetMap Vector Basemap. Since that time, we have made numerous updates to the basemap and improved the integration with ArcGIS Online. With our update last week, we’ve added new styles and another tile scheme to the OpenStreetMap group. Esri hosts a live replica of the OpenStreetMap (OSM) data, which we reference with ArcGIS Pro to build and publish a hosted vector tile layer in ArcGIS Online. Because it is a vector basemap, Esri and our users can re-style the basemap in many ways. The initial style mimics OSM cartography. We created two more styles built on the OSM data. We created map items in the Esri Street Map style as well as Esri Hybrid Reference style intended for display over imagery. OpenStreetMap Vector Tiles hosted by Esri OpenStreetMap Vector Tiles hosted by Esri, Cartography matching Esri Street Map OpenStreetMap Vector Tiles hosted by Esri, Cartography matching Esri Imagery Hybrid Vector Tile Style Editor If you’d like to create your own style, you can do that through the Vector Tile Style Editor! The Vector Tile Style Editor app supports re-styling the OpenStreetMap basemap through the Quick Edit tools, along with the other Esri basemaps. You can select the OpenStreetMap style to get started, use the Quick Edit tools to quickly re-style the many layers in the map to make it your own, and then save the custom map to your ArcGIS Online account. The Vector Tile Style Editor can also be accessed through the ArcGIS Online Map Viewer. Esri Vector Tile Style Editor As an alternative to the stand-alone style editor app, sign in to ArcGIS.com and add a vector tile layer to the contents of the Map details panel. Click the icon under the layer to launch the style editor app. The editor is accessible from a vector tile layer within or outside of the basemap. Style Editor accessible through the Map Viewer WGS84/GCS For those looking for WGS84/GCS tiling scheme, we’ve released a separate GCS tile set (OpenStreetMap_GCS_v2) with the same map styles as the OSM in Web Mercator Aux. Sphere: OSM cartography, Esri Street style, and Esri Hybrid Reference. OpenStreetMap Vector Tiles hosted by Esri, GCS varieties Accessing the Map The OpenStreetMap vector basemap hosted by Esri is freely available to any user or developer to use in your map or app! The OpenStreetMap vector basemap hosted by Esri is provided under a Creative Commons by Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license so that it may be used freely, and without transaction limits, in your internal and public facing maps. You just need to give appropriate credit for use of the map (i.e. “Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, Map layer by Esri”) in your work. The OpenStreetMap vector basemap is available in the ArcGIS Online basemap gallery. This is the case for anonymous users, new organizations, as well as ArcGIS Online organizations that have configured the Basemap Gallery to use the Esri Default maps and have enabled use of Esri vector basemaps. If your organization has not yet enabled use of Esri vector basemaps, we encourage you to do that now. Default Vector Basemaps in Gallery You can also access the map through the OpenStreetMap Vector Basemap group. If you are a developer, or a user embedding the map in a website or story map, we encourage you to use the web map referenced in this group, and also part of the Living Atlas. GeoNet: The Esri Community Finally, ask questions, share updates, and browse the space for the content you need! Visit the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World product page. GeoNet Product Page: Living Atlas of the World
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This blog was written by Andy Skinner and was originally posted on the ArcGIS Blog vector basemap arcgis vector tile style editor The National Geographic Style Map The National Geographic basemap, first released on ArcGIS.com in 2012, continues to be a popular map for reference, education, storytelling, and conservation mapping. This release of the new National Geographic Style Basemap builds on that history and completes the transition of Esri basemaps to using vector tiles! The map retains much of the flavor of the original, including the rich cartography and saturated land colors at smaller scales, with a series of enhancements: Coverage The vector style is now available worldwide at all scales, from global to the very largest of street-level information. National Geographic Style map at large scale The Background At smaller scales, a new cached base layer has been created, the National Geographic Style Base. It blends our multi-directional hillshade with a specially prepared version of the Esri/USGS Ecophysiographic Land Units Map. More information on the science behind ELUs can be found here. At mid-scales, the ELUs give way to a single tone land color. The hillshade continues into large scale, matching the coverage seen on other basemaps such as Topographic. The National Geographic Style map base only The Vector Tile information. All other map information is contained in the National Geographic Style, built from the same vector tile data as our other Esri vector basemaps. The sharpness of vector detail is retained regardless of the resolution of the screen and with the help of the Vector Style Editor this detail can be customized by you. Map content is subject to our regular update schedule. The rich cartography of the original map continues into the vector tile data with the addition of color boundary tint bands, and a selection of distinctive open source fonts. National Geographic Style map showing Switzerland As with the original, the National Geographic Style has value as a stand-alone reference map, as well as a basemap for your operational data. In the right circumstance it can add some real character to your work. We hope that you find this vector style as appealing.
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This blog was written by Wes Jones and was originally posted on the ArcGIS Blog. #vector basemap #arcgis vector tile style editor Have you ever felt like you were destined to do something? With this map, I felt a calling. A faint whisper at first. But—surely as a clock ticks—that whisper has grown. For as long as I have enjoyed making maps, I have particularly enjoyed watercolour maps. Easily, a watercolour map would be among my favourite map types. They make me smile, so what more could you ask for? I am pleased to introduce Watercolour, the newest map in the Esri basemap collection. INSPIRATION Inspiration is magical. I can’t think of anything created in a vacuum. There are too many watercolor map artists to mention, but over the years I’ve tried to take mental notes on their work to build a catalogue of things I liked. As an aside, I can’t tell you how many great winery and travel maps are painted so beautifully. I am also very drawn to fantasy maps, and the watercolour skill in that genre is phenomenal. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the awe-inspiring Stamen watercolor map. It still looks fresh to this day and is one of my favourites. I took inspiration from architectural plans, which are so often painted in watercolour. So are golf course maps. Those are some of my favourite, including one in particular, but I will get back to that later. TECHNICALITIES This map is made up of 64 painted images. What a task. I loved every minute of it, but it was slow going at first. Because I was gearing up for this map over such a long period, I even took watercolour painting classes to build up my skills. Funnily enough, it wasn’t until I watched my children paint that I found some of the techniques I had been searching for. Once a colour scheme was chosen, the process went a little quicker. As I said, this map has been on my mind for a long time and is probably my fourth official attempt. Painting the watercolour swatches was great, but making them seamless repeating textures was almost as enjoyable. I spent a long time on this phase, as I wanted them to look right. ARCGIS VECTOR TILE STYLE EDITOR I designed almost the entire map in the ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor. It was probably the game changer that I didn’t know I was waiting for. If you haven’t used it, you really should give it a minute. I don’t think I can stress enough how important it was in the creation of this map. INSPIRATION & COMMUNITY MAP EDITOR As I mentioned earlier, a certain golf course map has inspired me over the years. It is from the golf course in Osoyoos (pronounced O-soo-yuss), British Columbia. Growing up, I spent all my summers in that town. One day my uncle came up to me, pointed at the golf course map on the wall, and said, “Have you ever looked at that map?” I had, but then he added, “Do you know who the first member of the club was?” I looked through the names on the wall, and there it was—my grandfather. Audrey from the club graciously took a picture for me. But this story has a point besides nostalgia. Beyond this map’s having extra meaning for me and beyond its being one of my early inspirations, I wanted to show off this golf course in my map. The problem was, the golf course wasn’t in our data. However, that didn’t remain a problem long. I jumped over to the Community Map Editor and digitized the course. Now, if you haven’t used this editor either, it is a game changer too. THE TOUR Making this map has been a wonderful journey. I’d really like to thank all the teams here at Esri who have helped me along the way—without their help, this would still be just a whisper in my ear. I hope you enjoy it at least half as much as I have enjoyed making it and I can’t wait to see how you use it. To conclude, I want to take you on a tour. And finally…
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This blog was originally published by Wes Jones on May 24, 2019, on the ArcGIS blog page. REDESIGNING As map makers we make maps. However, that doesn’t mean that each map is made from scratch. It is just as often the case that a map is updated, tweaked, or redesigned. I want to share some of my journey redesigning the Navigation Basemap. WHY REDESIGN? There were several reasons why a redesign was in order. Other than needing a freshening up (as all maps need periodically), there were areas identified as needing adjustment to better serve some common use cases. Some of the main concerns were road widths being too thin, the label hierarchy, and some colour selections. OTHER CRITERIA This map is a heavily used map with many different users, so the changes couldn’t be so drastic as to radically change the look. FIVE MAJOR COMPONENTS WHEN REDESIGNING Any map redesign is nuanced, but I want to look at five things that helped make this redesign more successful and that can be applied to similar projects: GRATITUDE I think this is one of the most important steps: feel gratitude. I was/am very grateful for what came before. The original map was a really nice design, which was a huge bonus. It made the redesign easier in many ways. Even if it hadn’t been, what comes before is one of the pillars for building that which comes after. ONE CHANGE LEADS TO ANOTHER The map changes were focused around road widths, label hierarchy, and some colour adjustment. At first glance that doesn’t seem like a lot, but it really is. One change leads to another. By the end of the project, every single feature had been adjusted, and it really is a new map in so many ways. DIALOGUE WITH THE INVOLVED PARTIES It is important to have an open dialogue with the parties involved. Listen to their concerns and explain your choices. The more openness, the better a chance of success. MEASURING SUCCESS One obvious metric is whether the stakeholders are happy. Another measure of success in this project’s redesign was whether the changes generally went unnoticed by everyone else. THERE WILL ALWAYS BE OTHER UPDATES The update process never ends. There are already some tweaks that are needed. In the future, maybe I will have to do a complete redesign again, or maybe someone will have to update what I have done. The point is, it is never-ending journey. LET’S TAKE A LOOK Here is a look at some of the Navigation redesign. The new design is the first image in the following breakdown. At the smallest scales the changes were very minimal. The colours are a hint more vibrant, and the city label positions were changed. At this scale, some of the focus was on changing the colour balance. It is also a good scale to see how the changes aren’t drastic and are mainly noticeable only in a side-by-side comparison. A goal at this scale was to help the transition and tone down the road density. This was another scale where that same road transition technique was applied. Again, that road transition technique was applied. It hasn’t been mentioned, but at this scale and others, the city labels are larger and darker than on the original map. This scale is a good example to again show how the maps are fairly similar but the new one is a bit more vibrant and the colours are balanced slightly differently. One goal at this scale was to promote the roads slightly more. This scale is a good example of the increased importance placed on street names in the hierarchy. The adjusted symbology also opens the map up too. The map changes the most at the largest scales. The roads start to become much wider, and the labels are much darker and larger. The buildings stand out more too. The colour scheme follows the previous patterns and is brighter and the map moves away from a slightly backgroundy look that is had before. This is the last example and a good illustration that shows how maps evolve. Our maps continue to get more detailed, and greater emphasis is placed on larger and larger scales. The maps have to continue to evolve to better represent those scales and details. Thanks for coming along with me on this journey. I had a great time. I want to note that the ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor was the tool used to redesign this map. If you haven’t used it, it is totally worth your time!
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This blog post was originally posted to the ArcGIS blog page on May 23, 2019. Since the last blog about Esri Vector Basemaps, we rolled out several data updates in our tile set. These changes include HERE commercial data updates, authoritative Community Maps Program contributions , Community Maps Editor additions of highly detailed “campus” areas, and open data updates. In addition to updated map content, several map styles were improved. The most notable change is in the World Navigation vector tile layer. The updated style allows for better use on mobile devices through Runtime as well as in ArcGIS Online and Pro applications. This separate blog post provides our cartographer’s insight to his Navigation redesign. Updated Navigation vector basemap style Basemap Localization: Turkish Turkish is our 18 th language with localized maps, aside from our global English map. Each language displays in ten basemap styles. For localized language maps in your ArcGIS.com gallery, change your organization’s Region and Language in the General settings. Set Esri vector basemaps as the default gallery. This option is in the Map settings. More language updates are planned in future releases. Each link directs you to a group of web maps in that language: Arabic | Chinese (Hong Kong) | Chinese (Taiwan) | Modern Chinese | Czech | Finnish | French| German | Hebrew | Italian | Japanese | Korean | Polish | Brazilian Portuguese | Russian |Spanish | Swedish | Turkish Other Localization and Customization Do you want one of your custom-styled Esri vector basemaps to displays a localized language? Our World_Basemap_v2 tile set includes the language data that allows you to do that. See the Esri Vector Basemap Reference Document (v2) for details on how to customize your map to expose translated labels. The reference document includes the list of layers supported and the 2-digit language code you apply to the json. Try starting with one of our existing localized map styles and apply your own cartographic styling. Additionally, the reference document provides how-to details on customizing Esri vector basemap boundaries and names to show different world views. Boundaries are changeable from disputed to non-disputed. Displaying alternate names for select features is possible with json edits (for example: The Gulf -or- Persian Gulf -or- Arabian Gulf). Customize the look of your own vector basemaps In addition to language or geopolitical customization, you can also edit overall cartographic styling. Change the root.json code in a text editor and update your tile layer. Alternately, try the ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor (beta) app for a user-friendly styling experience. The Quick Editor function changes groups of features on layers en masse. In contrast, the editor also has an Edit Layer Styles option for a deep dive into individual map specifications. Change style settings for text, sprites, lines, polygons, and point features with the editor app. Use it to edit an Esri vector basemap style or your own vector tile layer created through ArcGIS Pro. We also have a Customizing Esri’s Vector Basemaps series of story maps. Topics include the Basics, Color, Lines, Labels, and Sprites. These reference tools can help when you’re modifying an existing vector basemap or when you’re creating your own multi-scale vector maps. The Vector Road Ahead Stay tuned to this blog page and the vector basemap group for new vector basemap styles available in ArcGIS Online. Some new map styles are being built for specific apps while others provide unique cartographic presentations of the Esri Vector Basemap tile set. Esri Vector Basemaps: Feedback Have you ever seen a problem with Esri Vector Basemap data or display? Report issues directly on this Feedback Map. Our team reviews your comments and considers the update for one of our frequent releases.
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Great question Kevin MacLeod ! The vector (and even the raster) basemaps include select community-contributed data, although Topographic was the only style to show contributor roads and admin boundaries. With Esri Vector Basemaps there is the ability for users to make a version of any our styles to show community roads & admin. HOW? Edit your own copy of the style root.json file and change the filter value from ["!in", "Viz", 3] to ["!in", "Viz", 2]... see the Reference Document page 4 for details of why that works. BUT... we've come to understand having an Esri-owned item with all the contributed community content is the preferred path. Users get all the style updates we make periodically and you don't have to manage your own separate map style just to display your own data. Vector basemaps with all the community contributed content can now be found in this group in ArcGIS Online. More info will be posted later this month in an upcoming blog (vector basemaps ArcGIS Blogs and Living Atlas GeoNet Blogs) as we roll into the User Conference. This is a set of core Esri Vector Basemap styles featuring community roads and admin line in addition to the other community content. We have both web maps and tile layers. The names include "(Community Maps)" in the title: Navigation (Community Maps), Imagery Hybrid (Community Maps), etc. You've heard it here first! As noted in the group description... while these maps include roads sourced from community contributions, the roads are not included in the routing network. Route displays may not align with road features from these maps.
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byDeane Kensok | This blog was originally posted on the Esri blog website Last summer, we introduced a new OpenStreetMap Vector Basemap, initially available in beta release. Since that time, we have made several updates to the basemap and improved the integration with ArcGIS Online. With the March update of ArcGIS Online, the OpenStreetMap vector basemap is now in general release and available to you through the basemap gallery in ArcGIS Online. This means that you can now freely use this new OpenStreetMap vector basemap in your production maps and apps! About the Map Esri now hosts a live replica of the OpenStreetMap (OSM) data, which we reference with ArcGIS Pro to build and publish a hosted vector tile layer in ArcGIS Online. As with our Esri basemaps, we refresh the OpenStreetMap vector basemap every 3 weeks with the latest OSM data worldwide. The OpenStreetMap vector basemap is displayed, by default, using the familiar OSM cartography. Because it is a vector basemap, however, Esri and our users are able to re-style the basemap in many different ways. Best of all, the OpenStreetMap vector basemap hosted by Esri is freely available to any user or developer to use in your map or app! The OpenStreetMap vector basemap hosted by Esri is provided under a Creative Commons by Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license so that it may be used freely, and without transaction limits, in your internal and public facing maps. You just need to give appropriate credit for use of the map (i.e. “Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, Map layer by Esri”) in your work. Accessing the Map As mentioned above, the OpenStreetMap vector basemap is now available in the ArcGIS Online basemap gallery. This is the case for ArcGIS Online organizations that have configured the Basemap Gallery to use the Esri Default maps and have enabled use of Esri vector basemaps (as shown below). If your organization has not yet enabled use of Esri vector basemaps, we would encourage you to do that now. You can also access the map through the OpenStreetMap Vector Basemap group. If you are a developer, or a user embedding the map in a website or story map, we encourage you to use the web map referenced in this group, and also part of the Living Atlas, so that you take advantage of any updates in the style we make over time. Styling the Map Speaking of styles, Esri plans to release multiple map styles based on the OpenStreetMap vector basemap, similar to what we do with the Esri vector basemaps. Some of these will be familiar styles, such as our Streets style, while others will be new and highlight some of the unique characteristics of the OSM data. You’ll find these styles in the group above as they become available. If you’d like to create your own style, you can do that through the Vector Tile Style Editor! The Vector Tile Style Editor app has recently been updated to support re-styling of the OpenStreetMap basemap through the Quick Edit tools, along with the other Esri basemaps. You can select the OpenStreetMap style to get started, use the Quick Edit tools to quickly re-style the many layers in the map to make it your own, and then save the custom map to your ArcGIS Online account. We are very excited to see how you use the OpenStreetMap vector basemap in your maps and apps. Stay tuned for more on how we are making OSM data easily available to you …
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Nathan Mellor, The Flat Tile Set (FTS) OSM map from Esri is in beta release. The "regular" tile set is an indexed version of the tiles, creating additional tiles as needed based on density of the content. The FTS has a set number of tiles on each scale level (multiple of 4 at each larger scale). So the FTS has many, many more tiles. The indexed is designed for use on the Esri ArcGIS platform (Online, Pro, etc.). The FTS can be used outside the Esri platform as well as within our platform. As the OSM vector basemap story matures at Esri, we'll be providing more information about all of our offerings. Thanks for the question.
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Esri vector basemaps updated Recent updates to Esri Vector Basemaps deployed new map content from contributing cities and counties who supplied data through our Community Maps Program to enhance our maps. Contribute your organization’s local, authoritative content through this program. Esri integrates your data with other providers and publishes the tile set as the ArcGIS Online vector basemap. Additionally, this release has one of the first rounds of contributions coming from the Esri Community Maps Editor. With the start of baseball spring training, there is a new Community Maps Challenge focused on compiling detailed content of the stadiums. Details available online. Ralston High School campus and sport facilities compiled through the Esri Community Maps Editor app. Basemap localization Czech, Finnish, Hebrew, and Swedish are the newest languages in our vector basemap localization styles. Currently we publish 17 languages, besides our global English map, in nine basemap styles each. The available languages: Arabic Chinese (Hong Kong) Chinese (Taiwan) Modern Chinese Czech Finnish French German Hebrew Italian Japanese Korean Polish Brazilian Portuguese Russian Spanish Swedish The link on the language names takes you to a group page of web maps. To get localized language maps in your ArcGIS.com gallery, change your organization’s Region and Language in the General settings. Make sure Esri vector basemaps are set as the default gallery. This option is in the Map settings. More language updates and more languages are planned in future releases. Translations are expanding across more feature classes and to larger scales. Do you want to convert one of your custom Esri vector basemaps into a map that displays a localized language? Our World_Basemap_v2 tile set includes the language data that allows you to do that. See the Esri Vector Basemap Reference Document (v2) for details on how to customize your map to expose translated labels. The reference document includes the list of layers this supports and the 2-digit language codes needed when editing json. Try starting with one of our existing localized map styles and apply your own cartographic styling. The reference document also provides details on how to customize the vector basemap boundaries and names to display a preferred world view. Disputed boundaries can be removed or changed to non-disputed. Alternate names for select features can appear on the map by json code modifications (for example, The Gulf -or- Persian Gulf -or- Arabian Gulf). Note: North Macedonia country name can be exposed by a JSON modification to your own map layer. It will be the default name on the Esri Vector Basemaps in our March update. This example shows the Nova creative vector basemap style with Hebrew labels. You can achieve a similar result with any of the Esri creative styles or your own vector style built on the Esri Vector Basemaps. Make a copy of the tile layer in your own account using the ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor. Download the root.json style file from this new tile layer's item page. Select fields identified in the reference document are edited in Notepad++ changing _name to _name_he ("he" for Hebrew): "text-field" : "{_name_he}". Fonts also change to Arial Unicode (bold or regular) to display the appropriate glyphs, Finally, update the item's root.json style file. Community: a new creative style for vector basemaps A new creative vector style is available for your basemap use. “Community” provides a customized world basemap that is uniquely symbolized. It is optimized for the display of special areas of interest (SAI) created and edited by Community Maps contributors. These special areas of interest features include landscaping polygons and sport ammenity lines. These are features such as grass, trees, rock, tennis courts, football and baseball lines, and more. This vector tile layer is built using the same data sources used for the World Topographic Map and other Esri basemaps. Cindy Prostak is the cartographer behind the design of Community, as well as many of our other creative styles including Charted Territory, Colored Pencil, Mid-Century, Modern Antique, Newspaper, and Nova. Check out this Story Map which builds off both our Community Maps baseball stadium challenge and our new Community style vector basemap. It also presents a number of real-world running challenges for you to conquer! Customize the look of your own vector basemaps In addition to customizing the language or geopolitical view of your vector basemaps, you can also edit overall cartographic styling. Change the root.json code in a text editor and update your tile layer. Alternately, try the ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor (beta) app for a user-friendly experience to change your map’s look. The Quick Editor function changes features en masse. In contrast, the editor also has an Edit Layer Styles option for a deep dive into individual map specifications. Change style settings for text, sprites, lines, polygons, and point features with the editor app. Edit one of the Esri vector basemaps or use it to edit your own vector tile layer created through ArcGIS Pro. Feedback Have you ever seen a problem with Esri Vector Basemap data? Report issues directly on this Feedback Map. Our team reviews your comments and considers the update for one of our frequent releases. This was originally posted on our ArcGIS Blog page: What's New in Esri Vector Basemaps (February 2019)
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Stefan Stefanov Thanks for your question. The Imagery with Labels that's seen in the Basemap Gallery is not a single service. It is a Web Map comprised of World Imagery and Boundaries and Places services (you could also add the Transportation layer if you wanted a roads overlay). Each of these individual services are available at the URL you provided. We do not maintain cache as a single service of both imagery and feature data/labels.
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Braden E & Nathan Mellor Just following up on this thread. The OpenStreetMap tile layer was updated late last week (and we are 'cooking' another set of tiles for an upcoming update). You'll see improvements to the placement of the Admin0 names from previous labels over islands to now over the 'expected' part of the country (see United States, Portugal, Mexico, etc.). Other improvements on city labeling priorities (St. Louis notably) as well as continued changes to reflect the specs of OSM. Our items are still flagged Beta, but we inch closer to becoming our production OpenStreetMap tile layer and web map offering. We'll announce the end of Beta likely through a blog on the ArcGIS site as well as a GeoNet blog.
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02-11-2019
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Hi Nathan Mellor, Thanks for your questions. While in and when we exit beta for our OpenStreetMap vector map tiles, the service URL is planned to be OpenStreetMap_v2. We're currently using the "ele" field to label the elevation in meters and we're not doing any modifications to the data. The OSM Wiki is reporting there's likely no good solution without using a separate tag... (see Key:ele - OpenStreetMap Wiki Local Units section). If there are changes that creates this separate tag, we may add the modification.
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Hi Braden E, thanks for the questions and comments. GeoNet is a great place to report issues at this point while we're still in Beta. As feedback comes in we'll need to review where the responsibility is to fix it. It could be data-driven (we are just pulling OSM data, no modifications) so any changes would need to be applied directly to the OSM map. Or it could be from the tile cooking or the styling. So having it on GeoNet would allow us to review and report back on the changes requested. We have a new edition of vector OSM tiles being tested for release shortly. We can see that many of the labels you reported are fixed in this latest version of the tiles. St. Louis appears at the smaller scale as expected, Manchester at larger scales, along with other smaller towns. Country names are also showing improvement in placement over mainland areas of the Admin0 area. These labels will appear in their new location with the release of the updated vector tile set soon.
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