World Street Map

World Street Map

Map Service Name: World_Street_Map

Description: 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; parts of Asia; Australia and New Zealand; parts of South America including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Venezuela; 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 imagery 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.

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 Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand, North America, South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Venezuela), and parts of southern Africa (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland); and TomTom data for parts of Africa (Mozambique and Zimbabwe) and select European island nations (Cyprus, Faroe Islands, Svalbard, and Jan Mayen Islands).

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, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China (Hong Kong and Taiwan only), Colombia, Egypt (Cairo only), Indonesia (Jakarta only), Japan, Lesotho, Mexico, Namibia, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, Swaziland, Thailand, Turkey, the United States (including Puerto Rico), and Venezuela.

See the Country coverage table to view coverage by country.

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. View the coverage map to learn more about the levels of detail:

Coverage map for World Street Map showing levels of detail

A larger coverage map is available.

Attribution: Sources: Esri, DeLorme, NAVTEQ, USGS, Intermap, Increment P Corp, NRCAN, Esri Japan, METI, Esri China (Hong Kong), Esri (Thailand), TomTom

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

9.71 TB

3.05 TB

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Number of files

468,124

131,222

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10/23/2012