ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World provides an extensive collection of ready-to-use authoritative maps, layers, scenes, and apps for ArcGIS Enterprise organizations. Enabling ArcGIS Living Atlas allows an organization’s members to use these items in analyses, maps, apps, and more.
In ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3, Esri made substantial changes to ArcGIS Living Atlas. In the past, ArcGIS Living Atlas content was tied to the ArcGIS Enterprise version that an organization was using. This means that organizations didn’t have access to updated ArcGIS Living Atlas items until they upgraded ArcGIS Enterprise to a newer version. But having access to fresh, relevant data is important to the work that users do, so Esri introduced a new way for organizations to keep their ArcGIS Living Atlas content up-to-date.
Starting with ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3, organizations can refresh their ArcGIS Living Atlas content in ArcGIS Enterprise. When Esri provides an updated package of ArcGIS Living Atlas items, ArcGIS Enterprise administrators can go into their organization’s settings and initiate an ArcGIS Living Atlas content update. This allows an organization’s members to access the latest ArcGIS Living Atlas maps, layers, scenes, and apps.
Get Ready for New Content
When a new version of ArcGIS Enterprise is released, an ArcGIS Living Atlas package will now be released alongside it. With the release of ArcGIS Enterprise 11.4, a new package of ArcGIS Living Atlas items is being made available to organizations that use ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3 and 11.4.
This set of content will include exciting new items—such as Landsat Level-2 imagery, updated boundary layers from many regions around the world, Sentinel-5P imagery, and data on current wildfires in the United States—as well as updates to existing items. To find out when this content becomes available, users can look for an announcement on ArcGIS Blog or follow the steps below to check for and deploy the new items.
How to Deploy New ArcGIS Living Atlas Content
ArcGIS Enterprise administrators have a tab in their organization’s Settings section labeled Living Atlas. This tab contains the organization’s ArcGIS Living Atlas configuration settings, including a section that shows which version of the content the organization is currently using.
If a new update is available, administrators will see a notification that includes details about the new version of ArcGIS Living Atlas content. Administrators can choose to update the content immediately or schedule an update for later.
Once an ArcGIS Living Atlas content update begins, new items will be added to the organization’s ArcGIS Enterprise portal, existing items will be updated if necessary, and any deprecated content will be removed. There is no downtime while the content gets updated, so users can continue working with ArcGIS Enterprise as they normally do.
When the update is complete, members of the organization have immediate access to the newest ArcGIS Living Atlas content available for ArcGIS Enterprise.
Install ArcGIS Living Atlas Content After Upgrading
In ArcGIS Enterprise 11.4, administrators will notice that their organizations no longer come with a set of preinstalled ArcGIS Living Atlas items. To ensure that users have access to the most up-to-date ArcGIS Living Atlas content packages, Esri now requires administrators to update ArcGIS Living Atlas content after installing or upgrading ArcGIS Enterprise.
If you’re an administrator, upgrade your organization to ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3 or 11.4, and give your users access to the incredible, updated library of authoritative maps, layers, scenes, and apps available in ArcGIS Living Atlas.
