A data appliance collection is a set of hard drives in a RAID array containing data and resources required for publishing services. Data Appliance collections are composed of the following contents:
| Collection | Contents |
|---|---|
Collection 1 | Includes the World Imagery basemap (published as a 2D map service), World Hillshade, World Hillshade (Dark), and World Ocean Base layers, at small and medium scales down to 1:144,000 (Level [L] 12), where available; and World Elevation (published as a 3D image service) for the World Basic product option. |
Collection 2 | Includes the World Imagery basemap (published as a 2D map service), World Hillshade, World Hillshade (Dark), and World Ocean Base layers with content for the world to 1:1,000, but with limited availability from 1:9,000 to 1:1,000 (L16–L19); the Arctic and Antarctic services; World Elevation (published as 2D and 3D image services) and elevation analysis services for the World Standard product option. |
Collection 3 | Includes the World Imagery basemap (published as a 2D map service), World Hillshade, World Hillshade (Dark), and World Ocean Base layers with content for the world to 1:282 (L21), where available; the Arctic and Antarctic services; World Elevation (published as 2D and 3D image services) and elevation analysis services for the World Advanced product option. |
Collection 4 | Includes the World Imagery basemap (published as a 2D map service), World Hillshade, World Hillshade (Dark), and World Ocean Base layers with content for North America to 1:1,000, but with limited availability from 1:9,000 to 1:1,000 (L16–L19); World Elevation (published as 2D and 3D image services) and elevation analysis services for the North America Standard product option. |
Collection 5 | Includes the World Imagery basemap (published as a 2D map service), World Hillshade, World Hillshade (Dark), and World Ocean Base layers with content for North America to 1:282 (L21), where available; World Elevation (published as 2D and 3D image services) and elevation analysis services for the North America Advanced product option. |
Esri Vector Basemaps | Ships separately on a USB flash drive or may be downloaded from My Esri and includes all vector basemap styles (published as vector tile layers on a portal) and two vector tile packages (published as hosted vector tile services) for the World Standard and Advanced, North America Standard and Advanced, and the Esri Vector Basemaps product option. |
OpenStreetMap Vector Basemaps | Ships separately on a USB flash drive or may be downloaded from My Esri and includes all vector basemap styles (published as vector tile layers on a portal) and two vector tile packages (published as hosted vector tile services) for the World Standard and Advanced, North America Standard and Advanced, and the OpenStreetMap (OSM) Vector Basemaps product option.¹ |
OSM Vector Basemaps: Basic (WMA only) | Ships separately on the World Basic USB flash drive or may be downloaded from My Esri and includes all OSM Vector Basemaps (WMA only down to 1:144,000) styles (published as vector tile layers on a portal) and a vector tile package (published as a hosted vector tile service) for the World Basic product option.¹ |
World Gazetteer | Ships separately on a USB flash drive or may be downloaded from My Esri and includes the World Gazetteer locator for the World Standard and Advanced, North America Standard and Advanced, and the World Gazetteer product option. |
¹ ArcGIS Data Appliance: OpenStreetMap Vector Basemaps is in Mature Support in ArcGIS Data Appliance 2025. This is the last release for OSM Vector Basemaps. For ArcGIS Data Appliance 2026, OSM Vector Basemaps will be replaced with Open Basemap Vector Basemaps, which will include open data from OpenStreetMap and other sources.
Note:
The Data Appliance Raster Services Help PDF file (arcgis_data_appliance_2025_raster_services_help.pdf) can be downloaded from My Esri for Collections 1 through 5.For details on the services available with each product option, see the Data Appliance service summary table below.
Data Appliance service summary
The following tables summarize the differences between the services included with each Data Appliance product option:
Basemaps
| Service | Thumbnail | Overview | Coverage for World Basic (Collection 1) | Coverage for World Standard (Collection 2) | Coverage for World Advanced (Collection 3) | Coverage for North America Standard (Collection 4) | Coverage for North America Advanced (Collection 5) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Includes high-resolution imagery for North America, Europe, and other areas around the world and low-resolution satellite imagery for the rest of the world. | ~1:591M to ~1:144,000 Global | ~1:591M to ~1:72,000 Global ~1:36,000 to ~1:1,000 Limited global coverage Geographic coverage and levels of detail for ~1:36,000 to ~1:1,000 is a subset of what is included with World Advanced. See the coverage map. | ~1:591M to ~1:72,000 Global ~1:36,000 to ~1:282 Limited global coverage ~1:36,000 to ~1:282. Complete contiguous United States, Australia, New Zealand, and most of Europe coverage where available. See the coverage map. | ~1:591M to ~1:144,000 Global ~1:36,000 to ~1:1,000 Limited North America coverage Geographic coverage and levels of detail for ~1:36,000 to ~1:1,000 is a subset of what is included with North America Advanced. See the coverage map. | ~1:591M to ~1:144,000 Global ~1:36,000 to ~1:1,000 Complete contiguous United States coverage ~1:36,000 to ~1:282 Limited North America coverage. See the coverage map. |
| Service | Thumbnail | Overview | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15-meter TerraColor imagery designed to be used as a basemap for overlaying other data for the Antarctic region. | World Standard (Collection 2) and World Advanced (Collection 3): ~1:902,000,000 down to ~1:110,000 | |
| 15-meter TerraColor imagery designed to be used as a basemap for overlaying other data for the Arctic region. | World Standard (Collection 2) and World Advanced (Collection 3): ~1:902,000,000 down to ~1:110,000 | |
| Designed to be used as a basemap by marine GIS professionals and as a reference map by anyone interested in ocean data. | World Standard (Collection 2) and World Advanced (Collection 3): ~1:902,000,000 down to ~1:881,000 | |
| Portrays elevation as an artistic hillshade. It was designed to be used as a backdrop for topographical, soil, hydro, land cover, or other outdoor recreational maps. | World Basic (Collection 1): ~1:591,000,000 to ~1:144,000 Global World Standard (Collection 2), World Advanced (Collection 3), North America Standard (Collection 4), North America Advanced (Collection 5): ~1:591,000,000 to ~1:144,000 Global; ~1:72,000 to ~1:9,000 Select areas in United States and Europe | |
| Portrays elevation as an artistic hillshade. It was designed to be especially useful in building maps that provide terrain context while highlighting feature layers and labels. | World Basic (Collection 1): ~1:591,000,000 to ~1:144,000 Global World Standard (Collection 2), World Advanced (Collection 3), North America Standard (Collection 4), North America Advanced (Collection 5): ~1:591,000,000 to ~1:144,000 Global; ~1:72,000 to ~1:9,000 Select areas in United States and Europe | |
| Map of the oceans showing bathymetry. | World Basic (Collection 1): ~1:591,000,000 to 1:577,000; ~1:288,000 to ~1:144,000 Limited global coverage World Standard (Collection 2), World Advanced (Collection 3), North America Standard (Collection 4), North America Advanced (Collection 5): ~1:591,000,000 to ~1:577,000 Global; ~1:288,000 to ~1:9,000 Limited global coverage |
Reference layers
| Service | Thumbnail | Overview | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Designed to be used as the reference layer for the Arctic Ocean Base map, this reference layer includes marine water body names, undersea feature names, and derived depth values in meters. | World Standard (Collection 2), and World Advanced (Collection 3): ~1:902,000,000 down to ~1:881,000 |
World Elevation
| Service | Thumbnail | Overview | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| World elevation layer composed of multiresolution and multisource elevation data (DTM) that provides access to elevation values and derivatives such as slope, aspect, and hillshade to use in analysis and visualization. | World Standard (Collection 2), World Advanced (Collection 3), North America Standard (Collection 4), North America Advanced (Collection 5): Includes global elevation data from multiple sources with resolutions ranging from 1,000 meters globally to 2 meters in a few regions | |
| World elevation surface to use for oblique viewing in Scenes in ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online Scene Viewer. | World Basic (Collection 1), World Standard (Collection 2), World Advanced (Collection 3), North America Standard (Collection 4), North America Advanced (Collection 5): Includes global elevation data from multiple sources with resolutions ranging from 1,000 meters globally to 2 meters in a few regions |
Elevation analysis
| Data | Thumbnail | Overview | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Profile geoprocessing tool calculates profile tables for lines you specify on a global elevation dataset. | World Standard (Collection 2), World Advanced (Collection 3), North America Standard (Collection 4), North America Advanced (Collection 5): Includes global elevation data from multiple sources, with resolutions ranging from 1,000 meters globally, 30 meters for most latitudes, and 10 meters in the continental United States | |
| The Viewshed geoprocessing tool creates viewshed polygons for observation points you specify on a global elevation dataset. | World Standard (Collection 2), World Advanced (Collection 3), North America Standard (Collection 4), North America Advanced (Collection 5): Includes global elevation data from multiple sources, with resolutions ranging from 90 meters for most latitudes, 30 meters for most latitudes, and 10 meters in the continental United States | |
| The Summarize Elevation geoprocessing tool calculates elevation, slope and aspect statistics for point, line or polygon features you specify on a global elevation dataset. | World Standard (Collection 2), World Advanced (Collection 3), North America Standard (Collection 4), North America Advanced (Collection 5): Includes global elevation data from multiple sources, with resolutions ranging from 90 meters for most latitudes, 30 meters for most latitudes, and 10 meters for most latitudes |
Locators
| Service | Overview | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
This locator allows you to geocode various types of places around the world. | World Standard, World Advanced, North America Standard, North America Advanced: References a geodatabase of more than 27 million geographical names including more than 12 million unique features with roughly 4.8 million populated places and 15 million alternate names. including countries, states and provinces, administrative areas (for example, counties), cities, landmarks, water bodies, and more |