Layers containing online data
Click on a LYR file to add it to ArcMap. (If using 9.2 or earlier, right-click and save the file to disk).
The new ArcGIS Online public beta website is now live! Visit http://www.arcgisonline.com to find maps, data and other resources from ESRI and the ArcGIS community. You can easily upload your own data and share it either publically or in private groups. Sharing your local data such as feature layers is easy if you have ArcGIS 9.3.1 because you can create and upload layer packages (.lpk files) - single files containing a layer file and its data. People using ArcGIS 9.3.1 or ArcGIS Explorer 900 can click on your layer packages to automatically download them and add them into their maps and globes. All of the files below are now available on the new ArcGIS Online site, plus many more!
ArcGIS Online services from ESRI:
This layer presents satellite imagery for the world and high-resolution aerial imagery for the United States. The layer includes NASA Blue Marble: Next Generation 500m resolution imagery at small scales (above 1:1,000,000) and i-cubed 15m eSAT imagery at medium-to-large scales (down to 1:70,000) for the world. The layer also includes i-cubed Nationwide Select 1m resolution imagery for the contiguous United States for display at large scales (below 1:70,000). I-cubed Nationwide Select is a seamless, color mosaic of various government imagery sources, including USGS imagery for metropolitan areas and the best available USDA NAIP imagery and enhanced versions of USGS DOQQ imagery for other areas.
The layer also includes the World User Imagery layer containing imagery assembled by ESRI from various GIS agencies and other sources through the ArcGIS Online Content Sharing Program. Here is the list of current ArcGIS Online Content Sharing Program contributors. The Service column in that list shows you the name of the service in this layer that contains the imagery from a particular source.
The services in this layer are high performance cached map services being served by ESRI as part of the ArcGIS Online data program.
Use of these services is free inside ArcGIS Desktop. Use of these services inside ArcGIS Engine and ArcGIS Server applications requires licensing from ESRI, depending on your application and how it will be accessed.
ArcGIS Online product page: http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline-services/index.html
ArcGIS Online resources, FAQs, and additional information: http://resources.esri.com/arcgisonlineservices
This layer file requires ArcGIS 9.2 or more recent.
You can link to this layer file in an email, blog or web page using the following URL: http://downloads2.esri.com/resources/arcgisdesktop/layers/World_Imagery.lyr
This layer presents a worldwide street map, with highway-level data for the world and street-level data for the United States, Canada, and several countries in Europe. The street map was developed by ESRI using AND road data for the world and Tele Atlas Dynamap® and MultinetTM street data for North America and Europe.
The service(s) in this file are high performance, cached ArcGIS Server map services being served by ESRI as part of the ArcGIS Online data program.
Use of these services is free inside ArcGIS Desktop. Use of these services inside ArcGIS Engine and ArcGIS Server applications requires licensing from ESRI, depending on your application and how it will be accessed.
ArcGIS Online product page: http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline-services/index.html
ArcGIS Online resources, FAQs, and additional information: http://resources.esri.com/arcgisonlineservices
This layer file requires ArcGIS 9.2 or more recent.
You can link to this layer file in an email, blog or web page using the following URL: http://downloads2.esri.com/resources/arcgisdesktop/layers/World_Street_Map.lyr
This world topographic basemap includes boundaries, cities, water features, physiographic features, parks, landmarks, transportation, and buildings overlaid on land cover and shaded relief imagery for added context.
The map was compiled from a variety of best available sources from several data providers, including the U.S. Geological Survey, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, National Park Service, Tele Atlas, AND, and ESRI. The basemap currently provides coverage for the world down to a scale of ~1:1m and coverage for the continental United States and Hawaii to a scale of ~1:20k. The basemap also includes detailed maps for selected cities in the United States including Portland, Oregon, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The basemap was designed and developed by ESRI based on the topographic map templates that are available on the ArcGIS Map Template Resource Center. The scale range goes from 1:591,657,528 down to 1:1,128.
The service(s) in this file are high performance, cached ArcGIS Server map services being served by ESRI as part of the ArcGIS Online data program.
Use of these services is free inside ArcGIS Desktop. Use of these services inside ArcGIS Engine and ArcGIS Server applications requires licensing from ESRI, depending on your application and how it will be accessed.
ArcGIS Online product page: http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline-services/index.html
ArcGIS Online resources, FAQs, and additional information: http://resources.esri.com/arcgisonlineservices
This layer file requires ArcGIS 9.2 or more recent.
You can link to this layer file in an email, blog or web page using the following URL: http://downloads2.esri.com/resources/arcgisdesktop/layers/World_Topographic_Map.lyr
This group layer contains the ArcGIS Online World Terrain Base service, featuring shaded relief imagery, bathymetry, and coastal water features designed to provide a neutral background for other data layers.
It also contains a world reference overlay with place names, boundaries, etc that you can turn on. (If you are using ArcMap, this reference overlay service requires 9.3.1 to draw correctly).
This map is designed to be used as a basemap by GIS professionals to overlay other thematic layers such as demographics or land cover. This basemap features shaded relief imagery, bathymetry, and coastal water features designed to provide a neutral background for other data layers. The map was compiled from a variety of sources from several data providers, including the U.S. Geological Survey, Tele Atlas, AND, NPS, and ESRI. The basemap currently provides coverage for the world down to a scale of ~1:1m and coverage for the continental United States and Hawaii to a scale of ~1:70k. Actual scale range is: 1:591,657,528 down to 1:72,224.
The service(s) in this file are high performance, cached ArcGIS Server map services being served by ESRI as part of the ArcGIS Online data program.
Use of these services is free inside ArcGIS Desktop. Use of these services inside ArcGIS Engine and ArcGIS Server applications requires licensing from ESRI, depending on your application and how it will be accessed.
ArcGIS Online product page: http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline-services/index.html
ArcGIS Online resources, FAQs, and additional information: http://resources.esri.com/arcgisonlineservices
This layer file requires ArcGIS 9.2 or more recent. Note that the World Reference Overlay layer that you can turn on in this group layer does not draw correctly in ArcMap unless you are using 9.3.1.
You can link to this layer file in an email, blog or web page using the following URL: http://downloads2.esri.com/resources/arcgisdesktop/layers/World_Terrain_Base.lyr
Use of Bing Maps (formerly Microsoft Virtual Earth) is offered free to all ArcGIS Desktop 9.3.1 users. Bing Maps includes the aerial, roads, and hybrid services, each provided as separate web layers you can turn on and off in the Table Of Contents.
To use Bing Maps in ArcGIS Desktop, go to this page: http://resources.esri.com/arcgisonlineservices/virtualearth . That page contains the map document (MXD), globe document (3DD) and individual layer files (LYR) you can launch to access the Bing Maps services.
Use of these services in ArcGIS products and applications requires licensing from ESRI. The Bing Maps services will not draw if you do not have the appropriate license. For full subscription information, see this page http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline/bing-maps.html on the ESRI web site.
To compare Bing Maps with the other imagery and streets services available through ArcGIS Online, use the web application here: http://resources.esri.com/arcgisonlineservices/index.cfm?fa=compare_image_maps and here: http://resources.esri.com/arcgisonlineservices/index.cfm?fa=compare_street_maps.
Free use of Bing Maps in ArcGIS Desktop requires ArcGIS 9.3.1.
Bing Maps is © 2009 Microsoft Corporation and its data suppliers: http://www.microsoft.com
Displays a shaded relief map at approximately 1km or 90m resolution (where available) worldwide, and 30m for the U.S. Use this map to show topography, or as a base map for data layers which are associated with topography.
The service(s) in this file are high performance, cached ArcGIS Server map services being served by ESRI as part of the ArcGIS Online data program.
Use of these services is free inside ArcGIS Desktop. Use of these services inside ArcGIS Engine and ArcGIS Server applications requires licensing from ESRI, depending on your application and how it will be accessed.
ArcGIS Online product page: http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline-services/index.html
ArcGIS Online resources, FAQs, and additional information: http://resources.esri.com/arcgisonlineservices
This layer file requires ArcGIS 9.2 or more recent.
You can link to this layer file in an email, blog or web page using the following URL: http://downloads2.esri.com/resources/arcgisdesktop/layers/World_Street_Map.lyr
Displays the Earth's natural physical features at approximately 1km worldwide, and 500m for the coterminous U.S. Includes topographic maps at 1:1,000,000 scale worldwide down to 1:24,000 for the U.S. Use this map to illustrate the Earth's landforms, or a base map for data layers influenced by landforms.
The service(s) in this file are high performance, cached ArcGIS Server map services being served by ESRI as part of the ArcGIS Online data program.
Use of these services is free inside ArcGIS Desktop. Use of these services inside ArcGIS Engine and ArcGIS Server applications requires licensing from ESRI, depending on your application and how it will be accessed.
ArcGIS Online product page: http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline-services/index.html
ArcGIS Online resources, FAQs, and additional information: http://resources.esri.com/arcgisonlineservices
This layer file requires ArcGIS 9.2 or more recent.
You can link to this layer file in an email, blog or web page using the following URL: http://downloads2.esri.com/resources/arcgisdesktop/layers/World_Physical_Map.lyr
DeLorme’s world topographic basemap is a seamless global data set that portrays transportation, hydrography, jurisdiction boundaries, and major geographic features.
DeLorme’s topographic basemap is designed to be used by GIS technicians and other mapping professionals, across a variety of industries. The DeLorme World Basemap is a seamless global data set with horizontal accuracy of +/- 50 meters. The map accurately portrays major transportation layers, inland and shoreline hydrography, agreed and disputed jurisdiction boundaries, and major geographic features. The map service currently provides coverage for the world down to a scale of 1:2 million. Additional feature density appropriate to 1:250k will be provided as an enhancement in Q3-2009. In designing the map, DeLorme has applied a rich cartographic look and feel to create a seamless view of the world, combining accurate object placement and projection with a compelling topographic visualization of the Earth. Scale Range: 1:591,657,528 down to 1:2,311,162
Copyright: ©2009 DeLorme
The service(s) in this file are high performance, cached ArcGIS Server map services being served by ESRI as part of the ArcGIS Online data program.
Use of these services is free inside ArcGIS Desktop. Use of these services inside ArcGIS Engine and ArcGIS Server applications requires licensing from ESRI, depending on your application and how it will be accessed.
ArcGIS Online product page: http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline-services/index.html
ArcGIS Online resources, FAQs, and additional information: http://resources.esri.com/arcgisonlineservices
This layer file requires ArcGIS 9.2 or more recent.
You can link to this layer file in an email, blog or web page using the following URL: http://downloads2.esri.com/resources/arcgisdesktop/layers/DeLorme_World_Basemap.lyr
This layer contains the ArcGIS Online World Political Map services which present a digital version of the Political World basemap from National Geographic's Atlas of the World, Eighth Edition.
The service(s) in this file are high performance, cached ArcGIS Server map services being served by ESRI as part of the ArcGIS Online data program. Use of these services is free inside ArcGIS Desktop. Use of these services inside ArcGIS Engine and ArcGIS Server applications requires licensing from ESRI, depending on your application and how it will be accessed.
Copyright: © 2008 National Geographic Society
ArcGIS Online resources, FAQs, and additional information: http://www.arcgisonline.com
This layer file requires ArcGIS 9.2 or more recent.
You can link to this layer file in an email, blog or web page using the following URL: http://downloads2.esri.com/resources/arcgisdesktop/layers/World_Political_Map.lyr
This layer contains the ArcGIS Online World Events Imagery service. It presents medium to high resolution imagery for various locations around the world related to major events, such as hurricanes or fires, for which the effects are visible in the imagery. The layer also includes coverage information at the small scales to illustrate where imagery is available. The layer is meant to overlay and supplement the base imagery in the ArcGIS Online World Imagery map document, globe document, and layer file.
You can use the Identify tool to find out more about particular world events imagery by clicking on the location symbol or footprint, or by clicking on the imagery itself.
The World Events Imagery layer currently features sub-meter resolution imagery for the post Hurricane Ike imagery for the Galveston, Texas, area.
Thanks to the ArcGIS user community and various agencies for sharing this event related imagery with us and the rest of the community.
Additional imagery will be added to the ArcGIS Online World Events Imagery service on a periodic basis as major events happen for which imagery is acquired and made available to ESRI. If there is serious event in your area, and you or any other agency have imagery that would help emergency recovery and post emergency planning, please contact your local ESRI representive, ESRI office or distributor, or the ArcGIS Online Content Sharing Program directly about the data. ESRI can help serve the GIS community by adding it into this service, which is cached using ArcGIS Server for maximum performance.
For more information on the ArcGIS Online Content Sharing Program, please see:
http://resources.esri.com/arcgisonlineservices/index.cfm?fa=content_howTo
See the ArcGIS Online Services Resource Center at: http://resources.esri.com/arcgisonlineservices for more information about ArcGIS Online including a preview application that lets you compare different sources of imagery available via ArcGIS Online.
The ArcGIS Online product page is here: http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline-services/index.html. This Includes full information about any usage restrictions that apply to this service. Use of ArcGIS Online services inside ArcGIS Engine and ArcGIS Server applications may require additional licensing, depending on your application and how it will be accessed.
This layer file requires ArcGIS 9.2 or more recent.
You can link to this layer file in an email, blog or web page using the following URL:
http://downloads2.esri.com/resources/arcgisdesktop/layers/World_Events_Imagery.lyr
Displays detailed topographic maps for the United States. It comprises i-cubed eTOPO 1:250,000 scale maps for the contiguous United States at medium scales, and National Geographic TOPO! 1:100,000 and 1:24,000 scale maps (1:250,000 and 1:63,000 in Alaska) for the United States at large scales. The TOPO! maps are seamless, scanned images of USGS paper topographic maps.
The service(s) in this file are high performance, cached ArcGIS Server map services being served by ESRI as part of the ArcGIS Online data program.
Use of these services is free inside ArcGIS Desktop. Use of these services inside ArcGIS Engine and ArcGIS Server applications requires licensing from ESRI, depending on your application and how it will be accessed.
ArcGIS Online product page: http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline-services/index.html
ArcGIS Online resources, FAQs, and additional information: http://resources.esri.com/arcgisonlineservices
This layer file requires ArcGIS 9.2 or more recent.
You can link to this layer file in an email, blog or web page using the following URL: http://downloads2.esri.com/resources/arcgisdesktop/layers/US_Topo_Maps.lyr
This group layer file contains the ArcGIS Online US demographics services. These thematic services present some of the most valuable current year content created by ESRI's demographic data team. These services include US population change 2000-2008, US 2008 diversity index, and US 2008 median household income. These services are valuable decision making tools that provide useful nationwide maps for visual overlay and comparison with other local or national data.
For more information about each demographic layer in this group layer, please see the following web pages or look at the description in the Layer Properties dialog General tab for each layer once you have added it to a map:
Tip: To quickly switch between the layers in a group layer, hold down ALT and click on the check box next to the layer you want to switch to. (This shortcut was added at 9.3)
The service(s) in this layer are high performance, cached ArcGIS Server map services being served by ESRI as part of the ArcGIS Online data program. The services in this group layer are ArcGIS Online standard services. Use of ArcGIS Online standard services is free inside ArcGIS products, except if used in commerical applications outside your organization. If you publish them in a commercial application that will be accessed by users outside your organization, a subscription fee is required. Please see the following pages for more information:
ArcGIS Online product page:
http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline-services/index.html
ArcGIS Online Resource Center:
http://resources.esri.com/arcgisonlineservices
For more information about ESRI's demographic data offerings including complete sets of vector data containing the latest year demographic estimates and community profile data, please see the Community Data product page: http://www.esri.com/data/community_data/index.html
This layer file requires ArcGIS 9.2 or more recent.
You can link to this layer file in an email, blog or web page using the following URL: http://downloads2.esri.com/resources/arcgisdesktop/layers/US_Demographics.lyr
Free services from government agencies and other sources:
This layer contains NASA JPL's most recent daily image of earth, which provides the most current, near-global image of the earth available.
This mosaic is continuously updated with images from NASA's MODIS TERRA satellite, which has almost global daily coverage. This data is served by NASA JPL's OnEarth server: http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov and this layer references their tiled WMS service. It updates as soon as scenes are available, usually with a 6 to 24 hour delay from real time. The resolution is 250m per pixel in the middle of the swath, less on the edges. Base resolution is 8 arcseconds per pixel.
See the NASA MODIS website for more information about the imagery:
http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov
This layer file requires ArcGIS 9.0 or more recent.
You can link to this layer file in an email, blog or web page using the following URL: http://downloads2.esri.com/resources/arcgisdesktop/layers/World_Daily_Image.lyr
Disclaimer: This layer file references one or more online web services published by a third party such as a government agency or educational institution. This layer is provided as a convenience to ArcGIS Desktop users so they can easily discover and access these services. ESRI isn't the supplier or publisher of these services and makes no warranty about the accuracy, currency or availability of the data. The design, availability and content of these services is not controlled or managed by ESRI. Please be sure to review the terms and conditions on the website of the publisher of these services. It is up to you to know and trust your data before using it in any mission critical situations or analyses. The publisher of the services may impose conditions on the use of these services or technical restrictions such as the maximum image size that can be returned and ability to export data locally. Questions, issues or suggestions about the content and use of these services should be directed to the publisher of the services. Please credit the publisher fully when using these services and please contact the publisher to see if any clearance or permission is needed before utilizing these services in printed map products or web-based applications.
This layer shows world earthquakes in the past 7 days. The data is obtained from the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: http://earthquake.usgs.gov
The USGS Earthquake Hazards Program provides several alternative ways to obtain real-time, worldwide earthquake lists. Earthquake information is extracted from a merged catalog of earthquakes located by the USGS and contributing networks. Earthquakes will be broadcast within a few minutes for California events, and within 30-minutes for world-wide events.
This live service was created by ESRI Technical Marketing using ArcGIS Server and the methodology described in these resources: http://resources.esri.com/publicsafety/index.cfm?fa=codeGallery and http://resources.esri.com/publicsafety/index.cfm?fa=mediaGalleryDetails&mediaID=3D795B52-1422-2418-A00DF65C0E6A2B43
This layer file requires ArcGIS 9.2 or more recent.
You can link to this layer file in an email, blog or web page using the following URL: http://downloads2.esri.com/resources/arcgisdesktop/layers/World_Earthquakes.lyr
Disclaimer: This layer file references one or more online web services published by a third party such as a government agency or educational institution. This layer is provided as a convenience to ArcGIS Desktop users so they can easily discover and access these services. ESRI isn't the supplier or publisher of these services and makes no warranty about the accuracy, currency or availability of the data. The design, availability and content of these services is not controlled or managed by ESRI. Please be sure to review the terms and conditions on the website of the publisher of these services. It is up to you to know and trust your data before using it in any mission critical situations or analyses. The publisher of the services may impose conditions on the use of these services or technical restrictions such as the maximum image size that can be returned and ability to export data locally. Questions, issues or suggestions about the content and use of these services should be directed to the publisher of the services. Please credit the publisher fully when using these services and please contact the publisher to see if any clearance or permission is needed before utilizing these services in printed map products or web-based applications.
The layer provides the current NEXRAD (NEXt Generation RADar) weather radar from NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) served as an OGC WMS service. The NEXRAD weather radar is updated at least every 10 minutes. You can also expand the layer to access the 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 minute old NEXRAD radar images in order to see the most recent movement of weather patterns.
The OGC WMS service referenced by this layer is the best freely available source of continuously updated NEXRAD radar data that we have been able to find for use in ArcGIS Desktop. However we have so far not been able to determine the exact source and publisher of this particular OGC WMS service.
The current NEXRAD weather radar is also being served in web service formats that can be accessed in ArcGIS Desktop by http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu, http://www.pasda.psu.edu/mapping/default.asp and on the NOAA NowCOAST system: http://nowcoast.noaa.gov
In ArcMap 9.3 or more recent, press the Refresh button to get the latest data for this layer. In earlier versions of ArcMap you have to redraw the map (i.e. zoom, pan, etc) to refresh the data.
This layer file requires ArcGIS 9.0 or more recent.
You can link to this layer file in an email, blog or web page using the following URL: http://downloads2.esri.com/resources/arcgisdesktop/layers/US_Weather_Radar.lyr
Disclaimer: This layer file references one or more online web services published by a third party such as a government agency or educational institution. This layer is provided as a convenience to ArcGIS Desktop users so they can easily discover and access these services. ESRI isn't the supplier or publisher of these services and makes no warranty about the accuracy, currency or availability of the data. The design, availability and content of these services is not controlled or managed by ESRI. Please be sure to review the terms and conditions on the website of the publisher of these services. It is up to you to know and trust your data before using it in any mission critical situations or analyses. The publisher of the services may impose conditions on the use of these services or technical restrictions such as the maximum image size that can be returned and ability to export data locally. Questions, issues or suggestions about the content and use of these services should be directed to the publisher of the services. Please credit the publisher fully when using these services and please contact the publisher to see if any clearance or permission is needed before utilizing these services in printed map products or web-based applications.
This group layer contains the latest available visible and infrared imagery from the National Weather Service (NOAA/NWS) GOES satellite. The two services used in this group layer are being served by PASDA, the Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access based in the Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment at the Pennsylvania State University.
The satellite images used in these ArcIMS image services on are downloaded from the National Weather Service site: ftp://gp16.ssd.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/GIS/GOESeast (and GOESwest) by PASDA and the service is updated with new images every 15 minutes. Each service is a mosaic of two images, one from the GOES East satellite and one from the GOES West satellite. To see the latest imagery after adding this layer into ArcMap, redraw the map (zoom, pan, resize ArcMap window) or press the Refresh button in ArcMap's horizontal scrollbar (pressing Refresh doesn't get the latest imagery from the server if you are using 9.2 or earlier).
PASDA home page: http://www.pasda.psu.edu
Metadata for Latest Visible Satellite Image service:
http://www.pasda.psu.edu/uci/MetadataDisplay.aspx?entry=PASDA&file=latestvisiblesatellite.xml&dataset=878
Metadata for Latest Infrared Satellite Image service:
http://www.pasda.psu.edu/uci/MetadataDisplay.aspx?entry=PASDA&file=latestinfaredsatellite.xml&dataset=876
PASDA National Weather Service map services page:
http://www.pasda.psu.edu/uci/SearchResults.aspx?originator=National%20Weather%20Service%20(NOAA/NWS)&Keyword=&searchType=originator&entry=PASDA
This layer file requires ArcGIS 9.0 or more recent.
You can link to this layer file in an email, blog or web page using the following URL: http://downloads2.esri.com/resources/arcgisdesktop/layers/US_Weather_Satellite.lyr
Disclaimer: This layer file references one or more online web services published by a third party such as a government agency or educational institution. This layer is provided as a convenience to ArcGIS Desktop users so they can easily discover and access these services. ESRI isn't the supplier or publisher of these services and makes no warranty about the accuracy, currency or availability of the data. The design, availability and content of these services is not controlled or managed by ESRI. Please be sure to review the terms and conditions on the website of the publisher of these services. It is up to you to know and trust your data before using it in any mission critical situations or analyses. The publisher of the services may impose conditions on the use of these services or technical restrictions such as the maximum image size that can be returned and ability to export data locally. Questions, issues or suggestions about the content and use of these services should be directed to the publisher of the services. Please credit the publisher fully when using these services and please contact the publisher to see if any clearance or permission is needed before utilizing these services in printed map products or web-based applications.
This LYR file contains the NOAA/National Weather Service current weather warnings for the USA being served as an ArcGIS Server live map service by the USGS Natural Hazards Support System: http://nhss.cr.usgs.gov/ . The NHSS Watches/Warnings contains all of the current weather watches and warnings issued by NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS). NHSS retrieves these feeds every 10 minutes and uses the information for active weather watches and warnings to update the layer. NHSS uses the same Watch and Warning Map Colors that were developed by the NWS. You can identify the weather warning polygons and in the Identify results you'll see a clickable link in the Web field that takes you to the actual http://www.weather.gov/ warning report for that warning.
For more information about the data used in the NHSS please see: http://nhss.cr.usgs.gov/data.shtml
To connect directly to this ArcGIS Server map service directly from any ArcGIS app instead of using this layer file, connect to:
ArcGIS Server: http://rmgsc.cr.usgs.gov/arcgis/services
Map Service: nhss_weat
This layer file requires ArcGIS 9.2 or more recent.
You can link to this layer file in an email, blog or web page using the following URL: http://downloads2.esri.com/resources/arcgisdesktop/layers/US_Weather_Warnings.lyr
Disclaimer: This layer file references one or more online web services published by a third party such as a government agency or educational institution. This layer is provided as a convenience to ArcGIS Desktop users so they can easily discover and access these services. ESRI isn't the supplier or publisher of these services and makes no warranty about the accuracy, currency or availability of the data. The design, availability and content of these services is not controlled or managed by ESRI. Please be sure to review the terms and conditions on the website of the publisher of these services. It is up to you to know and trust your data before using it in any mission critical situations or analyses. The publisher of the services may impose conditions on the use of these services or technical restrictions such as the maximum image size that can be returned and ability to export data locally. Questions, issues or suggestions about the content and use of these services should be directed to the publisher of the services. Please credit the publisher fully when using these services and please contact the publisher to see if any clearance or permission is needed before utilizing these services in printed map products or web-based applications.
This layer contains information about current and recent wildfires in the US. It is published by the GEOMAC (Geospatial Multi-Agency Coordination Group), a US federal goverment inter-agency team.
The Current Fires layer displays point data for large active fire incidents that have been entered into the National Interagency Fire Center Oracle database. This database is updated every morning.
The Current Fire Perimeters layer contains fire perimeters that are submitted to GeoMAC by field offices. The fire perimeters are updated every one or two days, as the data is made available.
Layers are also included showing thermal imaging data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite and the Hazard Mapping System (HMS).
The GEOMAC team is a multi-agency group with technical and subject matter experts from the Department of Interior's fire management agencies - the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the United States Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture. As the sole science agency for the Department of the Interior the U.S. Geological Survey also plays a pivotal role by hosting and maintaining the GeoMAC website. Other partners include the National Interagency Fire Center National Interagency Fire Center (http://www.nifc.gov), U.S. Department of the Interior - Office of Wildland Fire Coordination, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. For more information please see http://www.geomac.gov. The PDF Users Guide at that site describes the content of the data. This map can also be accessed directly on the Internet using the viewer at that website.
This layer file requires ArcGIS 9.0 or more recent. To add the GEOMAC service into ArcGIS Desktop or ArcGIS Explorer directly without using this LYR file or the US Wildfire MXD file available on the US Maps page, connect to this ArcIMS server http://www.geomac.gov and add the service called geomac into your map.
You can link to this layer file in an email, blog or web page using the following URL: http://downloads2.esri.com/resources/arcgisdesktop/layers/US_Wildfires.lyr
Disclaimer: This layer file references one or more online web services published by a third party such as a government agency or educational institution. This layer is provided as a convenience to ArcGIS Desktop users so they can easily discover and access these services. ESRI isn't the supplier or publisher of these services and makes no warranty about the accuracy, currency or availability of the data. The design, availability and content of these services is not controlled or managed by ESRI. Please be sure to review the terms and conditions on the website of the publisher of these services. It is up to you to know and trust your data before using it in any mission critical situations or analyses. The publisher of the services may impose conditions on the use of these services or technical restrictions such as the maximum image size that can be returned and ability to export data locally. Questions, issues or suggestions about the content and use of these services should be directed to the publisher of the services. Please credit the publisher fully when using these services and please contact the publisher to see if any clearance or permission is needed before utilizing these services in printed map products or web-based applications.
This group layer contains data for federal land management agency boundaries for public lands within the United States. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is responsible for cadastral survey, land and mineral use authorization, land and mineral title, and resource management of the public lands. In support of the development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure, the BLM was given the lead by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB Circular A-16) for Public Land Conveyance, Federal Land Ownership Status, and Cadastral Survey. The Federal Land Stewardship application is the beginning of our goal to provide the public with access to land status data. Land Status is a method of classifying land to determine what rights have or have not been allocated. Each category of land status is derived by searching for events on the land that were conducted under authorities affecting the category of land status being derived, then accumulating the effect of the actions.
Metadata and more information: http://www.geocommunicator.gov/GeoComm/fedland/home/fedland_about.shtm
This layer file requires ArcGIS 9.0 or more recent.
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Disclaimer: This layer file references one or more online web services published by a third party such as a government agency or educational institution. This layer is provided as a convenience to ArcGIS Desktop users so they can easily discover and access these services. ESRI isn't the supplier or publisher of these services and makes no warranty about the accuracy, currency or availability of the data. The design, availability and content of these services is not controlled or managed by ESRI. Please be sure to review the terms and conditions on the website of the publisher of these services. It is up to you to know and trust your data before using it in any mission critical situations or analyses. The publisher of the services may impose conditions on the use of these services or technical restrictions such as the maximum image size that can be returned and ability to export data locally. Questions, issues or suggestions about the content and use of these services should be directed to the publisher of the services. Please credit the publisher fully when using these services and please contact the publisher to see if any clearance or permission is needed before utilizing these services in printed map products or web-based applications.
This layer contains the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) of the United States as it is distributed from the US Bureau Of Land Management National Integrated Land System (NILS) Land Survey Information System, the official federal government website for the distribution of this data. The data can be also be downloaded from GeoCommunicator (www.geocommunicator.gov) as GIS shapefiles. The locations of Public Land Survey System - PLSS corners, as represented in geographic coordinate pairs, were derived from a variety of source documents, which include U.S. General Land Office and BLM survey plats/notes, as well as survey data obtained from other U.S. Government agencies, private sector survey firms, and local governments. The attributes assigned to PLSS polygons were taken from the BLMs Legal Land Description (LLD) data set, contained within the Legacy Rehost for the year 2000 (LR2000) automated records system. The coordinate data was produced by using control stations of known location, with varying degrees of accuracy, from various sources which include but are not limited to; U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) topological quadrangles and other sources, National Geodetic Survey (NGS) and US Coast & Geodetic Survey Cooperative Base Network (CBN) control, Federal Base Network control (FBN), and Continuous Operating Reference Stations (CORS), and Global Positioning System (GPS) data, which is then analyzed and adjusted in concert with official survey data for any given geographic area. More info at http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/more/gcdb.html.
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This layer file requires ArcGIS 9.0 or more recent.
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Disclaimer: This layer file references one or more online web services published by a third party such as a government agency or educational institution. This layer is provided as a convenience to ArcGIS Desktop users so they can easily discover and access these services. ESRI isn't the supplier or publisher of these services and makes no warranty about the accuracy, currency or availability of the data. The design, availability and content of these services is not controlled or managed by ESRI. Please be sure to review the terms and conditions on the website of the publisher of these services. It is up to you to know and trust your data before using it in any mission critical situations or analyses. The publisher of the services may impose conditions on the use of these services or technical restrictions such as the maximum image size that can be returned and ability to export data locally. Questions, issues or suggestions about the content and use of these services should be directed to the publisher of the services. Please credit the publisher fully when using these services and please contact the publisher to see if any clearance or permission is needed before utilizing these services in printed map products or web-based applications.
This group layer contains the USGS National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD), a component of the USGS Land Cover Characterization Program. It contains the 1992 and 2001 versions of the NLCD as ArcIMS map services. The seamless NLCD contains 21 categories of land cover information suitable for a variety of State and regional applications, including landscape analysis, land management, and modeling nutrient and pesticide runoff.
The NLCD ArcIMS map services are published by the USGS EROS (Earth Resources Observation and Science) Data Center (http://eros.usgs.gov) via the USGS National Map Seamless Server (http://seamless.usgs.gov), and the data program is also managed by the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium (http://www.mrlc.gov).
USGS EROS Data Center Land Cover Products page: http://eros.usgs.gov/products/landcover
USGS Land Cover Institute: http://landcover.usgs.gov
NLCD 2001: http://www.mrlc.gov/nlcd.php
NLCD 1992: http://landcover.usgs.gov/natllandcover.php
NLCD legend as graphic file: http://ims.cr.usgs.gov/Image_Library/Legends/MRLC/NLCD_2001_Land_Cover.gif
This layer file requires ArcGIS 9.2 or more recent. The USGS NLCD services on the National Map Seamless server used in this layer file are in ArcIMS image service format that can be accessed with ArcGIS 8.2 or more recent.
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Disclaimer: This file references one or more online web services published by a third party such as a government agency or educational institution. This file is provided as a convenience to ArcGIS Desktop users so they can easily discover and access these services. ESRI isn't the supplier or publisher of these services and makes no warranty about the accuracy, currency or availability of the data. The design, availability and content of these services is not controlled or managed by ESRI. Please be sure to review the terms and conditions on the website of the publisher of these services. It is up to you to know and trust your data before using it in any mission critical situations or analyses. The publisher of the services may impose conditions on the use of these services or technical restrictions such as the maximum image size that can be returned and ability to export data locally. Questions, issues or suggestions about the content and use of these services should be directed to the publisher of the services. Please credit the publisher fully when using these services and please contact the publisher to see if any clearance or permission is needed before utilizing these services in printed map products or web-based applications.
This group layer contains the CORINE Land Cover datasets published by the European Environment Agency (EEA) in the form of ArcGIS Server cached map services. The datasets for 1990 and 2000 are included in the layer.
The CORINE (Co-ordination of Information on the Environment) Land Cover dataset is the official geographic land cover/land use database used by the European Union. It compasses most of Europe. Data on land cover is necessary for the environmental policy as well as for other such as regional development and agriculture policies. It also provides one of the basic inputs for the production of more complex information on other themes (soil erosion, pollutant emissions into the air by the vegetation, etc.). The objectives of the CORINE Land Cover project are to 1) provide those responsible for and interested in the European policy on the environment with quantitative data on land cover, which is consistent and comparable across Europe, and 2) provide one comprehensive land cover database for the 25 EC member states and other European countries, at an original scale of 1:100,000, using 44 classes of the 3-level Corine nomenclature.
CORINE is based on the interpretation of satellite images (SPOT, LANDSAT TM and MSS) and various ancillary data (aerial photographs, topographic or vegetation maps, statistics, and local knowledge). The smallest surfaces mapped (mapping units) correspond to 25 hectares. Linear features less than 100 meters in width are not considered. The scale of the output product was fixed at 1:100.000. Thus, the approximate location precision of the CLC database is approximately 100 meters.
For more information about CORINE, including technical publications, full data downloads, the CORINE web map service in other formats, and on online viewer for working with CORINE in a web browser, please see the European Environment Agency's Land Use home page: http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/landuse
(c) European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark. http://www.eea.europa.eu. An agency of The European Union.
This layer file requires ArcGIS 9.2 or more recent.
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Disclaimer: This file references one or more online web services published by a third party such as a government agency or educational institution. This file is provided as a convenience to ArcGIS Desktop users so they can easily discover and access these services. ESRI isn't the supplier or publisher of these services and makes no warranty about the accuracy, currency or availability of the data. The design, availability and content of these services is not controlled or managed by ESRI. Please be sure to review the terms and conditions on the website of the publisher of these services. It is up to you to know and trust your data before using it in any mission critical situations or analyses. The publisher of the services may impose conditions on the use of these services or technical restrictions such as the maximum image size that can be returned and ability to export data locally. Questions, issues or suggestions about the content and use of these services should be directed to the publisher of the services. Please credit the publisher fully when using these services and please contact the publisher to see if any clearance or permission is needed before utilizing these services in printed map products or web-based applications.