ArcGIS Data Appliance 2026 includes the following improvements and enhancements.
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ArcGIS Data Appliance provides information about the ArcGIS Data Appliance product options, and ArcGIS Data Appliance 2026 content includes a table to help you understand the difference between the services in each product option.
Esri Vector Basemaps
Esri Vector Basemaps, an additional set of basemaps in vector tile format, is available in Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere projection and WGS84/GCS tiling scheme; it can be downloaded from My Esri or ships separately on a USB flash drive on request with most product options. This version of Esri Vector Basemaps presents two different editions of the basemaps to account for specific map labels and boundary depictions. Existing styles are updated. There are also new multisource style options that use new vector contour and hillshade packages. The vector tile packages contain updated global data from a variety of sources including commercial, authoritative agencies, and open-source providers, as well as local authoritative data from the Esri Community Maps Program. Vector basemaps can also be customized with ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor.
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This feature is not included with the World Basic product option.
Open Vector Basemaps
Open Vector Basemaps, an additional set of basemaps in vector tile format, is available in Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere projection and WGS84/GCS tiling scheme; it can be downloaded from My Esri or ships separately on a USB flash drive on request with most product options. There are 13 vector map styles. The contents of these maps include open data from Overture Map Foundation, OpenStreetMap, and other open data sources. Vector basemaps can also be customized with ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor.
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Open Vector Basemaps: Basic (WMA only), a set of basemaps in vector tile format, can be downloaded from My Esri or is included on the ArcGIS Data Appliance 2026 World Basic USB flash drive (ships separately on request) as part of the World Basic product option.
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ArcGIS Data Appliance: OpenStreetMap Vector Basemaps is in Mature Support in ArcGIS Data Appliance 2025. For ArcGIS Data Appliance 2026, OSM Vector Basemaps is replaced with Open Vector Basemaps.
World Gazetteer
The World Gazetteer is a places locator that allows you to geocode various types of places around the world. The World Gazetteer locator is composed solely of open-source content, primarily from GeoNames. The GeoNames database contains more than 25 million geographical names and consists of more than 12 million unique features with approximately 4.8 million populated places and 16 million alternate names. The gazetteer references a dataset including countries, states and provinces, administrative areas (for example, counties), cities, landmarks, water bodies, and more. It can be downloaded from My Esri or ships separately on a USB flash drive on request with most product options.
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World Gazetteer is not included with the World Basic product option.
World Imagery
The World Imagery basemap was updated with more recent, higher-accuracy, and more detailed imagery.
World Imagery basemap updates include high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery. Large portions of the world include updates from Maxar's constellation of high-resolution imaging satellites, while select areas include high-resolution aerial photography updates through Esri's Community Maps Program. Additional information is available in the World Imagery service description and in the associated metadata layer provided with your source documents.
The following map shows the updated coverage in this release:
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Coverage is defined by the product option you licensed.
World Hillshade and World Hillshade (Dark)
The World Hillshade and World Hillshade (Dark) layers were updated with lidar-derived 50-centimeter data for Wallonia (Belgium); 1-meter data for Austria, Slovakia, Vlaanderen (Belgium), Wales (UK), San Mateo County (CA, USA), German States of Bavaria, Saxony, Brandenburg and Hessen, and parts of New Zealand, Canada, and the United States; 2-meter data for parts of Canada; and 10-meter data for Austria and the United States.
This release also includes updates from Maxar Precision3D at 50-centimeters covering approximately 6 million kilometers2 for parts of the globe.
World Elevation
The Terrain 3D layer was updated with lidar-derived 50-centimeter elevation data for Wallonia (Belgium); 1-meter elevation data for Austria, Slovakia, Vlaanderen (Belgium), Wales (UK), San Mateo County (CA, USA), German States of Bavaria, Saxony, Brandenburg and Hessen, and parts of New Zealand, Canada, and the United States; 2-meter elevation data for parts of Canada; and 10-meter elevation data for Austria and the United States.
The Terrain layer was updated with lidar-derived 30-centimeter elevation data for the Nebraska (USA) counties of Sarpy, Douglas, and Lancaster; 50-centimeter elevation data for Cook County (Illinois, USA); 1-meter elevation data for England, France, Wales, Bavaria (Germany), Saxony (Germany), Brandenburg (Germany), parts of New Zealand, and the United States; and 10-meter elevation data for Italy and the United States.
Elevation Analysis
The Profile, Viewshed, and Summarize Elevation geoprocessing tools were updated with 10-meter elevation data for Austria and the United States along with 30-meter elevation data for Canada, Mexico, and the United States.