Your Living Atlas Questions Answered
A great map starts with great data. But finding the data you need for your specific project isn’t always an easy accomplishment. The traditional workflow has always been to go find a data source, download the raw data, process it into the format you need, fumble through the nuances of metadata, and then you’d finally start your real GIS work. Luckily, ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World is a resource included within ArcGIS to help address this need for easily accessible, quality spatial content. But Living Atlas is far more than just data. It spans the possibilities of web GIS by offering spatial content in useful ways across ArcGIS.
Since its debut in 2014, the ArcGIS Living Atlas team has received some common questions about how to access and understand Living Atlas.
What is Living Atlas? How can I use it? Can I nominate my own data and maps?
This article and the associated ArcGIS Blog item aims to help address these core questions (and more!) so that you can get started with Living Atlas immediately. The questions are broken into three groupings: General Questions, Using Living Atlas, and Nominating Your Spatial Content to Living Atlas. Use the list of links below to navigate to the question you need.
General Living Atlas Questions
- What is ArcGIS Living Atlas?
- Why use Living Atlas?
- Are there any resources to help me get started with Living Atlas?
- How is Living Atlas different from the items in ArcGIS Online?
- Can I trust the content I find in Living Atlas?
Using Living Atlas
- Where can I access Living Atlas?
- How can I find what I need within Living Atlas?
- What can I do with Living Atlas content?
- What are the different badges I see on items?
- Can I access Living Atlas through my ArcGIS Enterprise Portal?
- Why do I see different content within the various Regions?
Nominating Your Spatial Content to Living Atlas
- Why nominate to Living Atlas?
- What can be nominated to Living Atlas?
- What is needed to nominate content to Living Atlas?
- How do I nominate my content?
- When nominating, what does the scoring mean?
- How does my item get curated once it is nominated?
- Will Esri edit my items in any way?
- How can I mark my items as authorititative?
- What happens after my item is accepted?
- How do I maintain my Living Atlas items?
I have more questions, or I want to learn more. Where should I go?
