ArcGIS Desktop

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.

You can contribute your organization's imagery into this service so that you and the rest of the GIS community can access it via ESRI's ArcGIS Online high performance servers via the ESRI Community Maps Program! For more information please see: http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline/community-maps.html

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 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

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).

You can contribute your organization's imagery into this service so that you and the rest of the GIS community can access it via ESRI's ArcGIS Online high performance servers via the ESRI Community Maps Program! For more information please see: http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline/community-maps.html

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

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.

You can contribute your organization's imagery into this service so that you and the rest of the GIS community can access it via ESRI's ArcGIS Online high performance servers via the ESRI Community Maps Program! For more information please see: http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline/community-maps.html

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, Hybrid and Road services, each provided as separate layers you can turn on and off in the Table Of Contents.

To use Bing Maps in ArcGIS Desktop, go to the 'Using Bing Maps' page. 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://www.arcgis.com/help/content/esri/compare_imagery_maps.htm and here: http://www.arcgis.com/help/content/esri/compare_streets.htm

Free use of Bing Maps in ArcGIS Desktop requires ArcGIS 9.3.1 or more recent.

Bing Maps is © 2009 Microsoft Corporation and its data suppliers: http://www.microsoft.com

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 accurately portrays major transportation layers, inland and shoreline hydrography, agreed and disputed jurisdiction boundaries, and major geographic features. The map provides coverage for the world down to a scale of approximately 1:288k.

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.

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

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. This reference overlay service requires 9.3.1 to draw correctly because it is cached in the PNG32 image format to maximize quality.

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

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. 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.

This group layer also contains the World Boundaries and Places Alternate map service and the World Reference Overlay service which can be turned on after you've added the group layer to your map to provide boundaries, place names, etc. 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.

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

This layer file requires ArcGIS 9.3 or more recent. The services in this group layer use the WGS 1984 Web_Mercator (Auxiliary_Sphere) coordinate system which is not supported in 9.2. ArcGIS 9.3.1 is required to draw the World Reference Overlay in this service.

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.

This group layer also contains the World Boundaries and Places Alternate map service and the World Reference Overlay service which can be turned on after you've added the group layer to your map to provide boundaries, place names, etc. 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.

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

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. ArcGIS 9.3.1 is required to draw the World Reference Overlay in this service.

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

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

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

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 presents satellite imagery for the world and high-resolution aerial imagery for the United States.

It contains the I3_Imagery_Prime_World_2D service from ArcGIS Online. This service 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. It also includes the i-cubed Nationwide Prime 1m or better resolution imagery for the contiguous United States. 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.

It also contains the World Boundaries and Places and World Transportation services.

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

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 Multinet^TM 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

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

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 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

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

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.

The layer provides the current NEXRAD (NEXt Generation RADar) weather radar from NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) served as an OGC WMS service, updated every 5 minutes.

This OGC WMS service, which is is maintained by Doug Nebert, accesses the data from the Iowa State University MESONET, which receives the data from NOAA NWS every 5 minutes.

You can 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 current NEXRAD weather radar is also being served in web service formats that can be accessed in ArcGIS Desktop by Iowa State University MESONET ( http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu ), the NOAA NowCOAST system ( http://nowcoast.noaa.gov ) and the California Natural Resources agency ( http://atlas.resources.ca.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.

Full geodata.gov metadata record for the Iowa State University MESONET service:
http://www.geodata.gov/E-FW/DiscoveryServlet?uuid=%7b4F6F3CB1-A2C4-95FD-7E92-DE8711A6EDC8%7d&xmltransform=metadata_details.xsl

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 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.

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