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Layer files (LYR files) referencing web services
The layers below reference commonly used web services. To find additional web services and downloadable data from ESRI and the GIS community please visit: http://www.arcgisonline.com.
ESRI ArcGIS Online services for people using 9.3 or more recent
Click on a layer file to automatically add it into your map. (Note: the USA Prime Imagery entry has been removed from this list now that all the imagery in that service is now available in the free World Imagery service).
This new and updated new World Imagery service consolidates the best of the original World Imagery service with USA Prime Imagery service, a service that was previously only available via a subscription, along with additional high-resolution imagery for the world.
ArcGIS 9.3 or more recent is required to view this layer. (The services it contains are in the WGS 1984 Web_Mercator (Auxiliary_Sphere) coordinate system which is not supported in 9.2). The separate subscription-only USA Prime Imagery service is still provided for backwards compatibility and use in 9.2 but this new World Imagery service incorporates the imagery from that service at no cost for ArcGIS Desktop users.
This map presents low-resolution imagery for the world and high-resolution imagery for the United States and other areas around the world. The map includes NASA Blue Marble: Next Generation 500m resolution imagery at small scales (above 1:1,000,000), i-cubed 15m eSAT imagery at medium-to-large scales (down to 1:70,000) for the world, and USGS 15m Landsat imagery for Antarctica. The map also includes i-cubed Nationwide Prime 1m or better resolution imagery for the contiguous United States, Getmapping 1m resolution imagery for Great Britain, and GeoEye IKONOS 1m resolution imagery for Hawaii, parts of Alaska, and several hundred metropolitan areas around the world. i-cubed Nationwide Prime is a seamless, color mosaic of various commercial and government imagery sources, including Aerials Express 0.3 to 0.6m resolution imagery for metropolitan areas and the best available United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) imagery and enhanced versions of United States Geological Survey (USGS) Digital Ortho Quarter Quad (DOQQ) imagery for other areas.
For details on the coverage in this map, view the list of Current ArcGIS Online World Imagery contributors.
The coverage includes 1m imagery for the continental United States and for all or part of more than 2,000 other cities and towns:
- More than 875 cities with populations of more than 50,000 people. View a list in HTML or Excel (XLS) format.
- More than 1,200 towns with populations of more than 20,000 people. View a list in HTML or Excel (XLS) format.
View the coverage maps below to learn more about the coverage for the 1m imagery:
- World coverage map: Shows the areas with high-resolution imagery throughout the world.
- North America coverage map: Indicates the areas with high-resolution imagery in North America.
- Europe coverage map: Shows the areas with high-resolution imagery in Europe.
- Asia coverage map: Indicates the areas with high-resolution imagery in Asia.
This map is metadata-enabled. With the Identify tool in ArcMap or in Web mapping applications, you can see the resolution, collection date, and source of the imagery at the location you click. The metadata applies only to the best available imagery at that location. You may need to zoom in to view the best available imagery.
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 9.3 or more recent. This service is in the WGS 1984 Web_Mercator (Auxiliary_Sphere) coordinate system which is not supported in 9.2.
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 new and updated new World Street Map service includes enhancements to cartography at all scale levels, and updates to the latest AND global road data and Tele Atlas street data at large scales. It also includes additional coverage for large scale maps for other countries and regions such as South Africa, Japan, Thailand, Colombia, and Hong Kong.
ArcGIS 9.3 or more recent is required to view this layer. (The services it contains are in the WGS 1984 Web_Mercator (Auxiliary_Sphere) coordinate system which is not supported in 9.2).
This worldwide street map presents highway-level data for the world and street-level data for the United States, Canada, Japan, Southern Africa, and a number of countries in Europe and elsewhere. This comprehensive street map includes highways, major roads, minor roads, railways, water features, administrative boundaries, cities, parks, and landmarks, overlaid on shaded relief imagery for added context.
The street map was developed by ESRI using ESRI basemap data, AND road data, USGS elevation data, and UNEP-WCMC parks and protected areas for the world, and Tele Atlas Dynamap® and Multinet® street data for North America and Europe. Coverage for street-level data in Europe includes Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Northern Ireland (Belfast only), Norway, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. Coverage for street-level data elsewhere in the world includes China (Hong Kong only), Colombia, Egypt (Cairo only), Indonesia (Jakarta only), Japan, Mexico (Mexico City only), Russia (Moscow and St. Petersburg only), South Africa, Thailand, and Turkey (Istanbul and Ankara only).
View the coverage maps below to learn more about the levels of detail:
- World coverage map: Shows the levels of detail throughout the world.
- North America coverage map: Indicates the levels of detail in North America.
- European coverage map: Shows the levels of detail in 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 9.3 or more recent. This service is in the WGS 1984 Web_Mercator (Auxiliary_Sphere) coordinate system which is not supported in 9.2.
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.
This service is designed to be used as a basemap by GIS professionals and as a reference map by anyone. The service includes administrative boundaries, cities, water features, physiographic features, parks, landmarks, highways, roads, railways, airports, and buildings overlaid on land cover and shaded relief imagery for added context.
The service was compiled to uniform cartography using a variety of best available sources from several data providers, including the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. National Park Service, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Tele Atlas, DeLorme, and ESRI. The service currently provides coverage for the world down to a scale of ~1:150k and coverage for the continental United States and Hawaii to a scale of ~1:20k.
The service also includes detailed maps for selected cities in the United States including Portland, Oregon; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Pasadena, California; and Redlands, California. These are meant to demonstrate how the topographic map can and will be extended with more detailed data sets for local areas. The data for these large-scale maps was provided by Metro (Portland Metropolitan Area); the City of Philadelphia and PA GIS Data; and the Cities of Pasadena and Redlands, California, respectively.
For details on the coverage in this service, view the list of Current ArcGIS Online World Topographic Map Contributors.
The service was designed and developed based on the topographic map templates that are available through the Map Templates Resource Center. You can download and use these map templates to build maps for your area of interest that can be published as part of, or along with, the world topographic map.
The service is designed to be as a basemap for other layers. The map design purposefully omitted the darkest and brightest colors from the map so users could use those colors to symbolize the data to be overlayed on this map. You can visit the ESRI Mapping Center Blog for more information on the design.
This layer file requires ArcGIS 9.3 or more recent. This service is in the WGS 1984 Web_Mercator (Auxiliary_Sphere) coordinate system which is not supported in 9.2.
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
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
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 9.3 or more recent. This service is in the WGS 1984 Web_Mercator (Auxiliary_Sphere) coordinate system which is not supported in 9.2. 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 because it is cached in the PNG32 image format to maximize quality.
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
This service portrays surface elevation as shaded relief. This map is used as a basemap layer to add shaded relief to other GIS maps, such as the ArcGIS Online World Street Map. It is especially useful in maps that do not contain orthoimagery. The map resolution (cell size) is as follows: 30 Meters for the U.S. 90 Meters for all land areas between 60° north and 56° south latitude. 1 KM resolution above 60° north and 56° south. The shaded relief imagery was developed by ESRI using GTOPO30, Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), and National Elevation Data (NED ) data from the USGS.
The World Boundaries and Places Alternate map is designed to be drawn on top of this map as a reference overlay. That reference overlay, along with others such as World Transportation, are included in this layer file.
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 9.3 or more recent. This service is in the WGS 1984 Web_Mercator (Auxiliary_Sphere) coordinate system which is not supported in 9.2.
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_Shaded_Relief.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 World Boundaries and Places Alternate service is designed to be drawn on top of this map as a reference overlay, and this reference service is included in this layer file.
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 9.3 or more recent. This service is in the WGS 1984 Web_Mercator (Auxiliary_Sphere) coordinate system which is not supported in 9.2.
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
This service presents land cover imagery for the world and detailed topographic maps for the United States. The map includes the National Park Service (NPS) Natural Earth physical map at 1.24km per pixel for the world at small scales, 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 United States Geological Survey (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 9.3 or more recent. This service is in the WGS 1984 Web_Mercator (Auxiliary_Sphere) coordinate system which is not supported in 9.2.
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
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 9.3 or more recent. This service is in the WGS 1984 Web_Mercator (Auxiliary_Sphere) coordinate system which is not supported in 9.2.
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
A wide range of US demographic services is available as free ArcGIS Online services, along with some World and European ones.
These services are high performance, cached ArcGIS Server map services being served by ESRI as part of the ArcGIS Online data program. 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
ArcGIS Online:
http://www.arcgisonline.com
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
ESRI companies and distributors worldwide also offer demographic data. Please contact your local distributor for details.
These services require ArcGIS 9.3 or more recent. They are in the WGS 1984 Web_Mercator (Auxiliary_Sphere) coordinate system which is not supported in 9.2.
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
ESRI ArcGIS Online services for people using 9.2
Right-click a layer file, save it to disk locally, and then add it into your map.
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_Old.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_Old.lyr
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_Shaded_Relief_Old.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_Old.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_Old.lyr
Free services from government agencies and other sources
Some of these require at least 9.2. Others work in 9.0 and 9.1. (See the Description for the layer you want to use). If you are using 9.3 or more recent, click on a layer file to add it into your map. If you are using 9.2 or earlier, right-click a layer file, save it to disk locally, and then add it into your map.
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 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.
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_Land_Cover.lyr
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.
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/Europe_Land_Cover.lyr
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.