ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World provides foundation elevation layers and tools to support analysis and visualization across the ArcGIS system. These layers get updated quarterly with high resolution elevation data from federal agencies, open sources, and community maps program. Esri is providing these datasets as ready to use services that benefit the GIS community and extend the use of data in new and innovative ways. In this release, world elevation layers are updated with many lidar derived high-resolution Digital Terrain Models (DTM’s).
Terrain and TopoBathy layers are updated with:
- HVBG’s lidar derived 1 meter DTM’s covering Hesse state of Germany.
- Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen’s (BEV) 1 meter lidar derived DTM’s covering the entire country of Austria. This is the latest data update from BEV.
- Expanded coverage of USGS 3DEP 1 meter lidar derived DTM’s covering areas of the conterminous United States. In this release, entire 3DEP 1 meter collection was reprocessed and approximately 402,100 sq kms (~ 155250 sq miles) of new coverage has been added. The graphic below shows the new additions (magenta) along with previously available coverage (green).
Let’s see a few examples highlighting the improvements.
These data updates will be rolled out to the world elevation tiled services – Elevation 3D (Terrain3D and TopoBathy3D) and Hillshade (World Hillshade and World Hillshade (Dark) ) tentatively by the end of next quarter.
To see the coverage extents of each source comprising World Elevation services, check out the Elevation coverage map.
You can help in improving these services by contributing high-resolution elevation data to Living Atlas of the World. To participate and learn more, check out the Esri Community Maps for Elevation program.
This is great, but there is a catch (as of 17 Jan 2025): If a web map which contains a group with “Exclusive Visibility” enabled is used in the Field Maps app, turning off visibility of the layer currently being displayed in such a group will hang the application and necessitate a relaunch of Field Maps. If one is using a web map with “Exclusive Visibility” group(s) in Field Maps, be sure to turn on visibility of the group’s layers, and don’t turn visibility off for the layer currently chosen. Seems like this would be pretty easy to fix by… Read more »
Agreed. It’s now almost March 2025 and this problem in Field maps app persists, generally rendering any map with exclusive viz of layers set in a group NOT an option for any scaled mobile applications. Please address this BUG.
Hi Jim, Will, Thank you for bringing this to our attention. This appears to be an issue on the current released version of Field Maps on iOS. However, it does seem that the problem does not persist on the next generation of Field Maps on the updated Maps SDK engine. This new version of Field Maps is aiming for a release in either the summer or fall of this year. Please reach out to us at arcgisfieldmaps@esri.com if you have any further questions about this issue. I encourage you to reach out to Technical Support and get a public bug… Read more »