Esri Canada Community Maps Program
The Esri Canada Community Maps Program provides a cost-effective and efficient framework for organizations to share their geographic information with the online public. The program enables organizations across Canada to contribute their geographic information to be published as community maps on ArcGIS Online, a Web site for finding and sharing GIS content and building communities. The available maps are rendered with uniform cartography, cached and integrated into a World Topographic Map on ArcGIS Online. The global map is compiled using best available authoritative data from numerous sources worldwide.
View a map of participating communities. Check out featured Canadian community maps at maps.esri.ca.
Why participate?
There are numerous advantages to making your content available through the Esri Canada Community Maps Program. Benefits include:
- Free and easy access to detailed, accurate and high-performance online community basemaps that users within and outside your organization can leverage to develop innovative GIS applications to support areas such as economic development, disaster management, elections planning and community outreach
- Reduced costs associated with making your data widely available, such as setting up and maintaining the infrastructure and hosting online map services
- Significant time and cost savings in developing high-quality community basemaps. Esri Canada will return your data in ready-to-use ArcGIS Server map cache format, allowing you to publish it in your own Web applications and services
- Promotion of your organization's valuable GIS work
How do I participate?
Please contact us at communitymaps@esri.ca.
Download the Esri Canada Community Maps Program brochure to find out more.
Latest News
- Designed for those interested in ocean mapping and bathymetry, the recently published Ocean Basemap displays the seafloors and surface and subsurface features.
- Web Seminar recording now available: Migrating Data into the Community Maps Template
- Exciting changes are coming to the community maps program: a new mapping template, a more automated process of moving contributors' data into the community maps template, and more. Complete details
- ReNew Canada leveraged the Community Maps Program to create an interactive Web app that maps over $114 billion in infrastructure investments. Learn more
- Innovative apps developed through the Community Maps Program:
We view the Community Maps Program as an opportunity to benefit from Esri Canada's technical expertise for free while developing a new basemap for our Web site. We have a small staff and limited resources so the ability to leverage Esri Canada experts for time-consuming cache creation, server management and cartographic decision-making is tremendously helpful.
Stéphane Robertson
City of Gatineau
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Case Study: ReNew Canada brings infrastructure report to life with Community Maps
