This map service presents highway-level data for the world and street-level data for for North America, Europe, Southern Africa, parts of the Middle East, Asia, and more. A brief summary of the item is not available. Add a brief summary about the item.
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Item created: Jun 8, 2012 Item updated: Sep 8, 2022 View count: 34,881
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This map was last updated May 2013. This worldwide street map presents highway-level data for the world. Street-level data includes the United States; much of Canada; Japan; most countries in Europe; Australia and New Zealand; India; most of the Middle East; parts of South America including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Venezuela; Ghana; and parts of southern Africa including Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland.
This comprehensive street map includes highways, major roads, minor roads, one-way arrow indicators, railways, water features, administrative boundaries, cities, parks, and landmarks, overlaid on shaded relief for added context. The map also includes building footprints for selected areas in the United States and Europe. Coverage is provided down to ~1:4k with ~1:1k and ~1:2k data available in select urban areas. Here is a ready to use web map that contains this map service.
Tip: This service is one of the basemaps used in the ArcGIS.com map viewer and ArcGIS Explorer Online. Click one of those links to launch the interactive application of your choice, then choose Streets from the Basemap control to start using this service. You'll also find this service in the Basemap gallery in ArcGIS Explorer Desktop and ArcGIS Desktop 10.
The street map was developed by Esri using Esri basemap data, DeLorme basemap layers, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) elevation data, Intact Forest Landscape (IFL) data for the world; NAVTEQ data for Europe, Australia and New Zealand, North America, India, the Middle East, South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Venezuela), and parts of southern Africa (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland).
Coverage for street-level data in Europe includes Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. Coverage for street-level data elsewhere in the world includes Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia (Jakarta only), Israel, Japan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lesotho, Mexico, Namibia, New Zealand, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Swaziland, Thailand, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and Venezuela.
For details on the coverage in this map service, view the list of Contributors for the World Street Map.
In addition, some of the data in the World Street map service has been contributed by the GIS community. You can contribute your data to this service and have it served by Esri. For details, see the Community Maps Program.
View the coverage map to learn more about the levels of detail:
- World coverage map: Shows the levels of detail throughout the world.
Feedback: Have you ever seen a problem in the Esri World Street Map (aka "Streets" basemap) that you wanted to see fixed? You can use the Street Map Feedback web map to provide feedback on issues or errors that you see in the Esri World Street Map. The feedback will be reviewed by the ArcGIS Online team and considered for one of our updates.
Tip: Here are some cities as they appear in the Streets web map. Each of these URLs launches that web map and contains location information to take you to a particular city:
Scale Range: 1:591,657,528 down to 1:1,128
Coordinate System: Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere (WKID 102100)
Tiling Scheme: ArcGIS Online/Bing Maps/Google Maps
Map Service Name: World_Street_Map
ArcGIS Desktop/Explorer URL: http://services.arcgisonline.com/arcgis/services
ArcGIS Desktop files: MXD LYR 3DD (ArcGIS 9.3 or more recent required).
ArcGIS Server Manager and Web ADF URL: http://server.arcgisonline.com/arcgis/services/World_Street_Map/MapServer
REST URL for ArcGIS Web APIs: http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Street_Map/MapServer
SOAP API URL: http://services.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/services/World_Street_Map/MapServer?wsdl
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