Community Maps World Topographic Vector Tiles with Custom Areas of Interest

A vector tile layer provides a customized world basemap optimized to display special areas of interest (AOIs) created by Community Maps contributors. These AOIs include landscaping features like grass, trees, and rock, and sports amenities such as tennis courts and field lines. The layer is built using the same data sources as Esri's World Topographic Map and is published by the City of Moreton Bay's Data Hub.

Use Cases

• Enhance local map detail based on community-contributed landscaping features like grass and trees.
• Visualize sports infrastructure such as tennis courts and baseball field lines for planning.
• Create customized basemaps by overlaying special areas of interest on a world topographic foundation.

Strengths

• Integrates community-contributed data for localized detail.
• Built on authoritative Esri World Topographic Map data sources.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GeoJSON and KML.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to community contributions.

Provenance

Source

City of Moreton Bay's Data Hub (author: moretonbaygis)

Collection Method

Community Maps contributors create and edit special areas of interest; data is integrated into a vector tile layer.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-27 10:31:57.606292; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global, with custom areas of interest.