New Esri basemap highlights thematic content

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 REDLANDS, CALIF. — Esri released a new global basemap service designed to highlight users’ data. The Light Gray Canvas map features an overall soft gray color for land and darker gray for oceans and other bodies of water. These shades provide a pleasing neutral background so that data overlays contrast sharply with the rest of the map.

With fewer features and labels on the map, users have more freedom to color and label their own data. According to Esri, the map is a perfect alternative to traditional basemaps, which can have an abundance of detail that obscures data overlays. Any existing map backdrop can be changed to the Canvas map for a cleaner, less cluttered presentation of operational or custom data.

The Light Gray Canvas map is now available at arcgis.com and ArcGIS Explorer Online.