Workflow: Create and access custom basemap styles | Documentation

In this workflow, you will learn how to create a basemapA basemap is the foundational layer and data that provides the overall visual and geographic context for a map or scene. It typically includes geographic features and labels for land, water, roads, buildings, cities, places, and administrative boundaries, but can also include raster data such as satellite and areal images.Learn more style with the Vector Tile Style EditorThe ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor is a web-based application used to create, edit, and save a custom style for vector tile basemap layer.Learn more, and display that new basemap style in your application.

Create and access custom basemap styles

The Vector Tile Style EditorThe ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor is a web-based application used to create, edit, and save a custom style for vector tile basemap layer.Learn more can be used to create your own custom basemap stylesA basemap style is a definition that controls the visual appearance of how geographic data in a basemap are displayed. It includes colors, backgrounds, outlines, labels, and other visual elements. Each basemap style emphasizes a specific type of cartographic theme and data.Learn more and use them in applications. The editor allows you to create a new style with custom colors, fonts, and images and store them as new vector tile layerA vector tile layer is a data layer used to access and display tiled data and its corresponding styles.Learn more items in the portal. Once stored in the portal, applications can access the vector tile layer and styles easily from applications.

Workflow

Create a new basemap style with the Vector Tile Style Editor.
Display the basemap style in an application.

ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor interface showing color settings for land, water, roads, boundaries, buildings, and nature and preview maps of Southeast Asia.

Create a custom basemap style

Use the ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor to style a vector tile basemap layer.

Vector Tile Style Editor

A white-and-blue custom basemap style on a map centered in Southeast Asia.

Display a custom basemap style

Add and display a styled vector tile basemap layer.

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