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Overview

Basemaps

The National Security Basemaps are a set of ArcMap documents that can be used to author high-quality, essential basemaps for your organization or agency. They provide a consistent geographic context and important reference information to orient map users in desktop, mobile, and web mapping applications.

Each basemap is provided as an ArcMap document organized around the ArcGIS Online/Bing Maps/Google Maps tiling scheme. The data frame in each map document is reprojected to the Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere Projection, but the source data is maintained in its local projection.

Requirements

National Security Basemaps require specific technical experience and software. Minimum system requirements for the ArcGIS Platform can be found on the Support website.

National Security Basemaps are supported on ArcGIS 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4.

Requirement Description
Experience
  • Publishing GIS Services
  • Authoring maps
  • Administering ArcGIS Online groups and organizing content
Software
    Map Authoring
  • ArcGIS for Desktop (Standard or Advanced)
  • GIS Service Hosting
  • ArcGIS Online subscription, or
  • ArcGIS for Server (Standard or Advanced) with an enterprise or workgroup geodatabase
Data
    Topographic Basemap
  • Vector Data in UTDS Data Schema in a PostgreSQL Enterprise Geodatabase
  • Image Reference Basemap
  • Raster Imagery
  • CIB Raster Imagery
  • Canvas Basemap
  • Vector Data in UTDS Data Schema in a PostgreSQL Enterprise Geodatabase

What you get

When you download National Security Basemaps, you'll find the following files:

Directory Item Description
National Security Basemaps CanvasSDE.mxd Map document used to publish the Canvas cached map service.
ImageryReferenceOverlaySDE.mxd Map document used to publish the Image Reference cached map service.
TopographicSDE.mxd Map document used to publish the Topographic cached map service.
CanvasStyleFiles
    Canvas1K.style
    Canvas2K.style
    Canvas4K.style
    Canvas9K.style
    Canvas18K.style
    Canvas36K.style
    Canvas72K.style
Style files used to symbolize the Canvas map at different scales.
ImageryReferenceOverlayStyleFiles
    RefOverlay1K.style
    RefOverlay2K.style
    RefOverlay4K.style
    RefOverlay9K.style
    RefOverlay18K.style
    RefOverlay36K.style
    RefOverlay72K.style
Style files used to symbolize the Image Reference map at different scales.
TopographicBasemapsStyleFiles
    Topo1K.style
    Topo2K.style
    Topo4K.style
    Topo9K.style
    Topo18K.style
    Topo36K.style
    Topo72K.style
Style files used to symbolize the Topographic map at different scales.

What's new

Below are the release dates and notes for National Security Basemaps.

Version Description
2.0.1
  • Support for ArcGIS 10.4
2.0.0
  • Support for ArcGIS 10.3
1.0.0
  • Support for ArcGIS 10.0, 10.1, and 10.2

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