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ArcGIS Basemap Styles service

The ArcGIS Basemap Styles service is a location service that provides basemap styles and data for the world. The basemap data and styles represent features and labels for land, water, roads, buildings, cities, places, and administrative boundaries. There are also styles for satellite imagery and labels. There are many styles to choose from, which can be modified by setting style preferences such as language and worldview. Each basemap style provides high-quality geographic data and visualization for maps.

The ArcGIS Basemap Styles service is typically used by modern APIs that support WebGL and dynamic rendering at all zoom levels. The service can return styles as JSON based on the Mapbox Style Specification (v8) or the ArcGIS Web Map Specification as specified by styles/v2/styles and styles/v2/webmaps, respectively. The Mapbox Style Specification is typically accessed by open source libraries such as MapLibre GL JS, whereas the ArcGIS Web Map Specification is accessed by clients built with ArcGIS Maps SDKs. The data provided by the service supports the Web Mercator spatial reference.

The service supports two families of styles: the ArcGIS Basemap styles and the Open Basemap styles. Examples of the styles include arcgis/streets, arcgis/navigation, arcgis/outdoor, arcgis/imagery (satellite), open/osm-style, and open/streets. Tile data for styles is returned as vector tiles and/or map tiles depending on the style requested. The styles are categorized into the following groups: streets, topography, satellite, reference, and creative. Optional query parameters can be defined to set style preferences such as language, worldview, and places.

The service also provides access to custom basemap styles. Custom basemap styles are created with the ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor based on any ArcGIS Basemap style or an Open Basemap style. For more information, see Custom basemap styles.

The pricing for basemap usage is based on the number of basemap tiles consumed or basemap sessions created. To learn how to implement different basemap usage models, go to Mapping and location services > Mapping > Basemap usage.

Service URL

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https://basemapstyles-api.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/styles/v2

Requests

ArcGIS Basemap styles use authoritative data from Esri and partners such as TomTom, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community. They support style preferences such as language, worldview, and places. For more information about data sources and capabilities, go to each request below.

Service data

To view the data providers, supported projections, underlying tile services, data coverage, and restrictions, go to Service data.

Pricing

The pricing for basemap usage is based on the number of basemap tiles consumed or basemap sessions created.

To learn how to implement different basemap usage models, go to Mapping and location services > Mapping > Basemap usage.

Price category
ArcGIS Location PlatformArcGIS Online
Basemap tiles2 million free basemap tiles consumed per month then $0.15 per 1,000 tilesIncluded in subscription
Basemap sessions1,000 free basemap sessions created per month then $4 per 1,000 sessionsNot available
Self$00 credits

Terms of use

To review the attribution requirements for using ArcGIS services, go to Esri and data attribution.

To review the terms of use that apply to using ArcGIS products, services, and data, go to Esri.com > Esri Legal.

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