Download OSM vector maps for graphic design

By John Nelson

Graphic designers! Here’s an easy way to grab beautiful accurate open map data for your design work. Real data. No tracing. Download vector map data as points, lines, and polygons, all styled and ready for your work in whatever program you stylish folks are using these days. Maps rule, and it’s too fun not to dive into the cartographic tomfoolery.

0:00 Graphic designers, fear not!
0:38 Choosing a basemap for download (OpenStreetMap)
1:00 Padawan mode: print to PDF in ArcGIS Online
1:51 Jedi Knight mode: sneaking high resolution
3:44 Encouragement from an insider
4:11 Force Ghost mode: ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud

If once you start down the map path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will.

Thanks for watching! Love, John

John Nelson

I have far too much fun looking for ways to understand and present data visually, hopefully driving product strategy and engaging users. I work in the ArcGIS Living Atlas team at Esri, pushing and pulling data in all sorts of absurd ways and then sharing the process. I also design user experiences for maps and apps. When I'm not doing those things, I'm chasing around toddlers and wrangling chickens, and generally getting into other ad-hoc adventures. Life is good. You might also like these Styles for ArcGIS Pro: esriurl.com/nelsonstyles

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