World Light Gray Base

Map Service Name: World_Light_Gray_Base

Description: This map draws attention to your thematic content by providing a neutral background with minimal colors, labels, and features. Only key information is represented to provide geographic context, allowing your data to come to the foreground. This light gray map supports any strong colors, creating a visually compelling map graphic which helps your reader see the patterns intended.

The map shows political boundaries, populated places, water, roads, urban areas, and parks. Worldwide coverage is provided from ~1:591M-scale through ~1:9k-scale. The map was developed by Esri using administrative and cities data from Esri; DeLorme basemap layers for the world; NAVTEQ data for Australia, New Zealand, South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Venezuela), India, most of the Middle East, and parts of Southern Africa (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland); NAVTEQ administrative, cities, and landmark data for North America and Europe; and TomTom data for select European island nations (Cyprus, Faroe Islands, Svalbard, and Jan Mayen Islands).

As illustrated in the coverage map below, worldwide coverage is provided in the World Premier (down to ~1:9k) and World Small-Scale (down to ~1:72k) Collections; regional coverage is provided in the North America Collection (down to ~1:9k). The World Light Gray Reference layer includes similar coverage. View the coverage map to learn more about the levels of detail:

A larger coverage map is available.

Attribution: Copyright © 2013 Esri, DeLorme, NAVTEQ, 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