Basemap styles service (v2)

The basemap styles service is a ready-to-use location service that serves vector and image tiles that represent geographic features around the world. It includes styles that represent topographic features, road networks, footpaths, building footprints, water features, administrative boundaries, and satellite imagery. The styles are returned as JSON based on the Mapbox Style Specification or the ArcGIS Web Map Specification. The service also supports displaying localized language place labels, places, and worldviews. Custom basemap styles can also be created from the the default styles.

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You can use the service to display:

• Streets and navigation styles
• Imagery, oceanic, and topographic styles
• OSM standard and streets styles
• Creative styles such as nova and blue print
• Custom basemap styles
• Localized place labels
• Places with styles (beta)
• Worldview boundaries (beta)

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Service URL

The service supports two different endpoints. One returns JSON for the style based on the Mapbox Style Specification and the other returns JSON for the web map based on the ArcGIS Web Map Specification.

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

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

Requests

To access each basemap style, use the service URL with the desired data source and style.

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https://basemapstyles-api.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/styles/v2/styles/{data_source}/{style}

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https://basemapstyles-api.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/styles/v2/webmaps/{data_source}/{style}

ArcGIS styles

Below are the style and web map requests for the ArcGIS data source styles.

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

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https://basemapstyles-api.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/styles/v2/webmaps/arcgis/{style}

Learn more about each style in the tables below:

Streets and navigation

Name	Layer sources	View in ArcGIS
Navigation	Single
Navigation (night)	Single
Streets	Single
Streets relief	Multiple
Streets relief base	Single
Streets (night)	Single

Topography and Imagery

Name	Layer sources	View in ArcGIS
Outdoor	Multiple
Imagery	Multiple
Imagery standard	Single
Imagery labels	Single
Topographic	Multiple
Topographic base	Single
Terrain	Multiple
Terrain base	Single
Terrain detail	Single
Oceans	Multiple
Oceans base	Single
Oceans labels	Single
Hillshade (dark)	Single
Hillshade (light)	Single

Reference

Name	Layer sources	View in ArcGIS
Dark gray	Multiple
Dark gray base	Single
Dark gray labels	Single
Light gray	Multiple
Light gray base	Single
Light gray labels	Single

Creative

Name	Layer sources	View in ArcGIS
Human geography	Multiple
Human geography (base)	Single
Human geography detail	Single
Human geography labels	Single
Human geography dark	Multiple
Human geography dark base	Single
Human geography dark detail	Single
Human geography dark labels	Single
Colored pencil	Single
Community	Single
Nova	Single
Charted territory	Multiple
Charted territory base	Single
Midcentury	Single
Newspaper	Single
Modern antique	Multiple
Modern antique base	Single

OSM styles

Below are the style and web map requests for the OSM data source styles.

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https://basemapstyles-api.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/styles/v2/styles/osm/{style}

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https://basemapstyles-api.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/styles/v2/webmaps/osm/{style}

Learn more about each style in the tables below:

Streets and navigation

Name	Layer sources	View in ArcGIS
Standard	Single
Standard relief	Multiple
Standard relief base	Single
Navigation	Single
Navigation (dark)	Single
Streets	Single
Streets relief	Multiple
Streets relief base	Single

Imagery

Name	Layer sources	View in ArcGIS
Imagery hybrid	Multiple
Imagery hybrid detail	Single

Reference

Name	Layer sources	View in ArcGIS
Dark gray	Multiple
Dark gray base	Single
Dark gray labels	Single
Light gray	Multiple
Light gray base	Single
Light gray labels	Single

Creative

Name	Layer sources	View in ArcGIS
Blueprint	Single

Custom styles

You can also access custom styles with the service. Styles are stored in ArcGIS as items.

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https://basemapstyles-api.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/styles/v2/styles/items/{item_id}

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https://basemapstyles-api.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/styles/v2/webmaps/items/{item_id}

Authentication

To access the basemap styles service, you need an ArcGIS Developer account or ArcGIS Online account and you need to use one of the following authentication methods:

• API key: A permanent token that grants your application access to ready-to-use services. The API key must include the basemaps scope.

• ArcGIS Identity (formerly named user): A short-lived token, generated via OAuth 2.0, giving your application permission to access the service authorized to an existing ArcGIS user's account.

Service data

Data providers

The data sources contributing to a basemap service layer depend on the layer. To view a list of providers, go to each item in the World basemaps for developers group.

Attribution

Basemap attribution is required when you build and deploy an application which uses the basemap styles service. There are two types of attribution that you need to display in your application:

• Powered by Esri
• Attribution for the data source providers.

Most client APIs display attribution text by default. If the API you are using does not provide the appropriate attribution, you need to add it manually. For more information, visit basemap attribution.

Detail and accuracy

The detail and accuracy of the data varies across the globe.

Projections

Basemaps service layers are published in the Web Mercator (Auxiliary Sphere) projection.

Languages

The place labels in ArcGIS basemap styles are, by default, rendered with global place names. By default, place labels in OpenStreetMap basemap styles are localized. To customize the language settings for a basemap style, set the language parameter in the URL request to one of the language codes from the table below:

Boundary disputes

Vector basemap service layers can be configured to display disputed boundaries according to a specific world view. This requires modifying the style definition JSON.

The source Esri Community Map data used to build the vector tiles has disputed boundaries defined for many areas around the world. In the Esri vector basemaps, internationally recognized national boundaries (e.g. United States / Canada border) are typically represented with different types of “solid” lines while disputed boundaries (e.g. parts of French Guiana / Suriname border) are typically represented with “dashed” lines. In some cases, a country will want to not render (i.e. make invisible) a disputed boundary that it does not recognize. See this blog for an example of how to change the JSON code and apply the DisputeID code in the filter for boundary lines.

Visit this web map to view details of all the disputed boundaries, with DisputeID codes, configured in the Esri Vector Basemaps.

API support

Limitations

APIs

The service can only be accessed by the supported APIs above. To access basemap layers with additional APIs, go to Basemap styles service (v1).

Basemap places (beta)

The new places query parameter allows you to display places with basemap styles.

The following are known limitations and issues:

• Style support: Only arcgis/navigation and arcgis/navigation-night are supported.
• Icons and locations: Displaying places in North America with places=all vs places=attributed will result in some icon and location differences.
• MapLibre JS: When using MapLibre JS with places=all or places=attributed, the place symbols may appear incorrectly or intermittently at smaller map scales (zoomed out). However, places will appear correctly at larger map scales (zoomed in to street levels).
• ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript: To display places with the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript you need to access the style directly with the places=all or places=attributed parameter. To authenticate requests, an access token is required. It is also not possible to perform a hitTest to access place features.

Worldview (beta)

The new worldview query parameter allows you to display country boundaries and labels based on a specific view of a country.

Worldviews can only be specified for key ArcGIS basemap styles (OSM is not supported). When a specific worldview is chosen, it is possible for some labels to change language. However, when the language query parameter is used in combination with the worldview selection, the explicitly selected language will take priority over any language changes associated with the worldview.

Pricing

Terms of use

You cannot store basemap style service tiles or data for future use. To see a complete description of the allowable usage, attribution, and usage rules, please see the Terms of use.