ArcGIS Data Appliance 2025 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 2025 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 ships separately on a USB flash drive or can be downloaded from My Esri with most product options. There are five new vector tile layers (map styles) as well as updates to 54 existing style items. 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.
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This feature is not included with the World Basic product option.
OpenStreetMap Vector Basemaps
OpenStreetMap (OSM) 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 ships separately on a USB flash drive or can be downloaded from My Esri with most product options. There is one new and 12 updated OSM vector map styles. The contents of these maps are built from the OpenStreetMap Daylight Distribution data. Vector basemaps can also be customized.
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OSM Vector Basemaps: Basic (WMA only), a set of basemaps in vector tile format, is included on the ArcGIS Data Appliance 2025 World Basic USB flash drive (ships separately or downloaded from My Esri) 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. This is the last release for OSM Vector Basemaps. For ArcGIS Data Appliance 2026, OSM Vector Basemaps will be replaced with new Open Basemap Vector Basemaps, which will include open data from OpenStreetMap and other sources.
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 itself contains more than 27 million geographical names and consists of more than 12 million unique features with roughly 4.8 million populated places and 15 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 ships separately on a USB flash drive or can be downloaded from My Esri with most product options.
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World Gazetteer is not included with the World Basic product option.
World Places Locator is no longer included with ArcGIS Data Appliance.
World Imagery
The World Imagery basemap was updated with more recent, higher-accuracy, and more detailed imagery.
World Imagery receives updated high-resolution, commercially licensed content globally and contributions from the GIS community in select areas. The commercial content is sourced from Maxar's constellation of high-resolution imaging satellites, while the community contributions are generally high-resolution aerial photography. 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 30-centimeter elevation data for the Nebraska (USA) counties of Sarpy, Douglas, and Lancaster; 50-centimeter elevation data for Hong Kong and Cook County (Illinois, USA); 1-meter elevation data for Slovenia, England, France, Berlin (Germany), Hamburg (Germany), and parts of Poland, New Zealand, and the United States; 2-meter elevation data for Saxony-Anhalt (Germany); 5-meter elevation data for New South Wales (Australia) and parts of Poland; and 10-meter elevation data for Italy and the United States.
This release also includes commercial licensed elevation data from Maxar at 50 centimeters for large parts of Asia and Africa along with a few areas in Europe, North America, South America, and Australia.
World Elevation
The Terrain 3D 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 Hong Kong and Cook County (Illinois, USA); 1-meter elevation data for Slovenia, England, France, Berlin (Germany), Hamburg (Germany), and parts of Poland, New Zealand, and the United States; 2-meter elevation data for Saxony-Anhalt (Germany); 5-meter elevation data for New South Wales (Australia) and parts of Poland; and 10-meter elevation data for Italy 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 Italy and the United States along with 30-meter elevation data for the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
In addition, the Profile tool was updated with the GEBCO 2023 grid for the 500 m (15 arc second) DEM Resolution option.