on January 27, 2023

Configurable Map Viewer Basemaps in Dropdown With Different Projections

Geographic Information Systems

How do I add a custom Basemap to Basemap gallery?

Step 1 – Go to your organizations Settings, and open the Map tab. Step 2 – In the Basemap Gallery section, do the following. a – Select your custom basemap gallery group from the dropdown list. b – Choose Share basemaps to add the default Esri basemaps to the group.
 

How do I change the basemap in ArcGIS?

To change the basemap, do the following:

  1. From the map tools, click Basemap. to display the basemap gallery.
  2. In the gallery, select a basemap. The map automatically displays the new basemap.
  3. Click Close. when you are finished changing the basemap to close the Basemap pane and view the map.





How do I customize a basemap in ArcGIS pro?

To add or change the basemap in the active map, follow these steps:

  1. On the Map tab, in the Layer group, click Basemap. to open the basemap gallery.
  2. Click an icon in the gallery to choose a basemap.




How do I clip a basemap in ArcMap?



When working with basemaps it is possible to clip the basemap to reduce the time it takes ArcMap to draw, and also to eliminate data outside of the shapefile of interest. Open the Data Frame properties dialogue box and choose the Data Frame tab. Choose ‘clip to shape’ and ‘specify shape’.

How do you change the basemap projection?

Navigate to the View menu > Data Frame Properties > Coordinate System and change the coordinate system back to the correct spatial reference. If working with the same basemap layer frequently, the basemap layer can be saved as a layer file.
 

How do I create a custom Basemap?

Click Add > Add Layer from Web. Choose A Bing Basemap from the drop-down list. Choose which Bing basemap you want to use. Click Add Layer.



Create and share basemaps

  1. Click Basemap.
  2. Choose the basemap from the gallery.
  3. To show a more focused area, zoom to the extent you want to use as the initial extent of the basemap.


How do you add multiple Basemaps in ArcGIS pro?

In ArcGIS Pro, click Map > Add Data > Data.

  1. In the Add Data window, click Portal > Living Atlas.
  2. Type the title of the desired basemap layer in the Search Portal: Living Atlas box.
  3. Select the desired basemap layer in the search results, and click OK.

 



What is basemap projection?

Basemap provides 24 different map projections. Some are global, some can only represent a portion of the globe. When a Basemap class instance is created, the desired map projection must be specified, along with information about the portion of the earth’s surface that the map projection will describe.

What is a vector basemap?

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How do I add a basemap in Python?

Installation



  1. Install pre-requisite requirements.
  2. Untar the basemap version X.Y.Z source tar.
  3. Install the GEOS library.
  4. cd back to the top level basemap directory (basemap-X.Y.Z) and run the usual python setup.py install .
  5. To test, cd to the examples directory and run python simpletest.py .


How do I add a basemap in Matlab?

Download Basemaps

  1. On the MATLAB Home tab, in the Environment section, click Add-Ons > Get Add-Ons.
  2. In the Add-On Explorer, scroll to the MathWorks Optional Features section, and click show all to find the basemap packages.
  3. Select the basemap data packages that you want to download.


How do I add a basemap to Google Earth?

How To: Use Google Earth images as basemaps in ArcGIS Pro



  1. In Google Earth, zoom in to the desired map extent.
  2. Add at least three placemarks within the extent as ground control points, and note the latitude and longitude coordinates of each placemark.
  3. Save the Google Earth map as an image.