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ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World

ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World

The world's foremost collection of geospatial information

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There is always new content available in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Access ready-to-use, authoritative data layers, curated and prepared for easy ArcGIS integration. Stimulate your creativity by exploring inspiring spatial content from thousands of organizations including maps, apps, and story maps. Support the greater spatial community by contributing your own projects and data to Living Atlas and engage others with the content you create.

You do the analyzing, we'll do the curating.

Your time is valuable. Trust in Esri to get you started using quality location data, fast. Living Atlas saves you time with curated and prepared data layers that can be easily integrated into your GIS workflows.

See What Others Can't

Discover the global collection of prepared maps and apps that bring ArcGIS to life. Insert live feeds, ready-to-use visualizations, and interactive maps into your dashboards to complement your narrative.

Contribute to Living Atlas

Do you have a captivating story map, web app, or data layer that you would like to contribute to Living Atlas? Would you like to enhance your local basemap with areas of interest, addresses, or street locations? Get started today and see why thousands of organizations already contribute authoritative content to advance Esri's basemaps, imagery, elevation, and so much more.

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Living Atlas resources

  • Living Atlas Data for On-Premises Use

    ArcGIS Living Atlas Blog

    Learn more about Living Atlas maps and data that are available to deploy and use on-premises in your private network.
  • Policy Mapping—Improve Newborn Health

    Learn ArcGIS lesson

    Identify counties in need of low birth weight intervention by making a policy map and creating a web app to share your results.
  • Evaluate climate change data with ArcGIS Pro

    Spatial data webinar

    Dive into the latest scientific data on climate change and get the basis to explore how scientists project your climate will change.
  • Predict Weather with Real-Time Data

    Learn ArcGIS lesson

    Explore real-time weather data, make predictions, and interpolate surfaces.


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There is always new content available in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World. Access ready-to-use, authoritative data layers, curated and prepared for easy ArcGIS integration. Stimulate your creativity by exploring inspiring spatial content from thousands of organizations including maps, apps, and story maps. Support the greater spatial community by contributing your own projects and data to Living Atlas and engage others with the content you create.

Living Atlas in the news

  • USGS releases PAD-US 2.0

    ArcGIS Blog

    Newly released protected areas of the United States are now available in Living Atlas.
  • New Live Feed weather data

    ArcGIS Blog

    Access real-time maps and layers from Living Atlas.
  • Warming waters threaten coral reefs

    Mongabay News

    New interactive map can help you identify, in near real time, the areas where the sea is warming up, increasing the risk of coral reef bleaching.
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