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Intelligent Base Maps

ArcGIS Online provides ready to use content and capabilities including 2D maps, 3D globes, and reference layers. This collection of web-based products and resources is designed to enhance and extend the ArcGIS user experience. ArcGIS Online services are deeply integrated with ArcGIS and provide immediate access to these cartographically designed, seamless globes and basemaps to which users can easily add their own data.

ArcGIS Online services can be accessed by ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Explorer users via the web. The services include satellite imagery for the world; a worldwide shaded relief map; a seamless, multiscale street map with highway data for the world and local street-level data for the United States and Canada; and political world, physical world, world protected areas, and historical world globes and basemaps. These maps and globes work directly with prebuilt tasks in ArcGIS Desktop, such as placefinder and gazetteer, and all the default ArcGIS Explorer tasks including Find Place, Find Address, and Get Driving Directions.  Access the ArcGIS Online Quick Start Guide.

What you can do with ArcGIS Online

Using ArcGIS Online, you can:

  • Create digital worlds in 2D and 3D by combining ArcGIS Online with local data and services from ArcGIS Server, ArcIMS, Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Services (WMS), and KML services.
  • Embed ArcGIS Online content and tasks into maps and applications and share the results with others.
  • Combine user content with ArcGIS Online to quickly and easily author maps for a variety of applications such as city planning, cadastral management, mineral exploration, environmental management, disease monitoring, and hydrography.
  • Focus on mission-critical work rather than spending time creating basemaps.
  • Save on costs associated with data acquisition and maintenance, hardware infrastructure, and staffing.

Click here to register for the Beta program and begin using ArcGIS Online.