7/11/08—ESRI will conclude the beta period for ArcGIS Online in August. In preparation for this, we intend to retire a set of services that are no longer necessary to retain. Most of these services have either been replaced with more current or complete services or contain outdated information that cannot be maintained.
Below is a list of the services that are to be retired. The services to be retired will include the 2D versions as well (*_2D), if applicable. These services will be retired and removed from the ArcGIS Online servers on or after August 14, 2008.
In some cases, we have listed services that we recommend you use instead of the service to be retired. We have removed any references to these services from our published maps, but, if you are referencing them in your maps and applications, please update the references before they are retired to prevent any broken connections.