Mark Stewart
Recent Posts
Esri User Conference showcases Community Maps
With the Esri International User Conference just a little over one month away, the time is right to begin planning how you can get the most out of this once a year event. As usual, there will be some important … Continue reading
Community Maps and educational campuses combine at the Esri Education GIS Conference
Some of the richest and most interesting content in the World Topographic Map is contributed by educational campuses across the world. So far almost two dozen higher education and K-12 organizations have created their campus basemaps using Esri templates and … Continue reading
ArcGIS Explorer Online presentations showcase Esri Community Maps contributors
Every month the World Topographic Map Service is refreshed to reflect newly contributed and updated content. These Community Maps deployments are regularly announced in the ArcGIS Online Content blog, and, recently, we’ve even started featuring them in the form of ArcGIS … Continue reading
Austin Community College Student Work Shines in the World Topographic Map
Sean Moran, GIS Department Chair at Austin Community College (ACC), had ambitious goals for his Advanced Problems in GIS course last spring. He wanted to offer students exposure to GIS technology and concepts that would challenge them and that they … Continue reading
Multi-language labeling in the World Topographic Map Template
Since posting the recently redesigned World Topographic Map Template on the Community Maps Resource Center we have received several questions about using the template and data model to label multiple languages. As you may be aware, the template is based on … Continue reading
New workshop videos offer self-paced training option.
Have you wanted to participate in our complimentary instructor-led online workshops, but found that schedule conflicts or your daily responsibilities were an obstacle to spending two days in class? Do you prefer to learn at your own pace, rather than … Continue reading
New story map helps explain the Community Maps data model
Preparing source data for contributing to Esri Community Maps isn’t complicated, but it does involve migrating the basemap layers you want to contribute into the geodatabase schema of the Local Government Information Model (LGIM). At first glance this can seem a … Continue reading
Special Areas of Interest in the new World Topographic Map design
Since the beginning of the Community Maps Program, content contributors have been encouraged to include large scale features from “special areas of interest” within their geographies, such as university and public school campuses, large commercial centers and tourist attractions. More recently, the Community Maps Program has been actively reaching out to campus organizations themselves to include their basemaps as part of the World Topographic Map, and many examples can be seen in this ArcGIS Explorer Online presentation. Continue reading
Understanding the Community Maps Program Contribution Extent
All contributors to the Community Maps Program have a geographical extent associated with their account. This polygon boundary is used to define the extent of data provided to the program. We refer to this as the contribution extent. The program currently supports one contribution extent per contributor, with plans to support multiple extents per contributor in the future. Continue reading
New Community Maps Online Help Now Available
The Community Maps team is pleased to announce that comprehensive online documentation for the program is now available from the Community Maps Resource Center.
Whether you are a current Community Maps contributor, new member or just looking for information, we hope that this new resource is helpful. You will find topics on the new Community Maps 2.0 work flow, data migration, QAQC and much more. We will continue to update and add topics to the Help over time, so please provide us your feedback and let us know how we can make this resource better for you.
