World Topographic Map

Map Service Name: World_Topo_Map

This map is designed to be used as a basemap by GIS professionals and as a reference map by anyone. The map includes administrative boundaries, cities, water features, physiographic features, parks, landmarks, highways, roads, railways, and airports overlaid on land cover and shaded relief imagery for added context.

The map provides coverage for the world down to a scale of ~1:72k. Coverage is provided down to ~1:4k for the following areas: Australia and New Zealand; Europe; Canada; Mexico; United States; parts of Southern Africa including Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland; and parts of South America including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Venezuela. Coverage down to ~1:1k and ~1:2k is available in select urban areas.

This basemap was compiled from a variety of best available sources from several data providers, including the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. National Park Service (NPS), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Department of Natural Resources Canada (NRCAN), GeoBase^1,2, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, DeLorme, NAVTEQ, TomTom (select European island nations), and Esri.

As illustrated in the coverage map below, worldwide coverage is provided in the World Premier (down to ~1:1k) and World Small-Scale (down to ~1:72k) Collections; regional coverage is provided in the Europe and North America Collections (down to ~1:1k) as indicated in the inset maps.

A larger coverage map is available.

The map is designed to be a basemap for other layers. The map design purposefully omitted the darkest and brightest colors from the map so users could incorporate those colors to symbolize the data to be overlaid on this map. Visit the Esri Mapping Center blog for more information on the design.

Attribution: Sources: Esri, DeLorme, NAVTEQ, TomTom, Intermap, Increment P Corp, USGS, FAO, NPS, NRCAN, GeoBase, Kadaster NL, Ordnance Survey, Esri Japan, METI, Esri China (Hong Kong), and the GIS User Community

¹Portions of this data originate from GeoBase®. Use of the Data shall not be construed as an endorsement by GeoBase®. All distributed data should be accessed and used relatively to the GeoBase Unrestricted Use Licence Agreement. With this licence, users are granted a nonexclusive, fully paid, royalty-free right and licence to exercise all intellectual property rights in the data. This includes the right to use, incorporate, sublicense (with further right of sublicensing), modify, improve, further develop, and distribute the data; and to manufacture and/or distribute Derivative Products. The Licensee shall identify GeoBase as a data source.

²Portions of this data originate from © Department of Natural Resources Canada. All rights reserved.

Coordinate System: Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere (WKID 102100)

Tiling Scheme: Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere

Map Service Data Format: Map Server Cache in JPEG Format

Data Collection Details:

	World Premier Collection	North America Collection	Europe Collection	World Small-Scale Collection
Largest scale	~1:1k	~1:1k	~1:1k	~1:72k
Map service size on disk	11.5 TB	5.68 TB	Not Available	Not Available
Number of files	427,121	156,051	Not Available	Not Available