Community Maps Recreation Features for World Topographic Basemap

Moreton Bay GIS provides a vector tile layer offering a customized world basemap symbolized to highlight special areas of interest. These areas, contributed by community members, include landscaping features like grass, trees, and rock, and sports amenities such as tennis courts and field lines. The layer is built from the same data sources used for Esri's World Topographic Map and other basemaps.

Use Cases

• Enhancing topographic basemaps with detailed community-provided landscaping features like grass and trees.
• Mapping and analyzing the distribution of sports amenities such as tennis courts and baseball fields.
• Creating specialized recreational or park maps based on curated points of interest.

Strengths

• Integrates community-contributed data, allowing for localized detail.
• Built on authoritative Esri basemap data sources for foundational accuracy.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GeoJSON and KML for broad compatibility.

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 or contributor bias inherent to community-sourced projects.

Provenance

Source

City of Moreton Bay's Data Hub (moretonbaygis), utilizing Esri basemap data and Community Maps contributors.

Collection Method

Community-sourced contributions integrated with commercial basemap data.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-27 10:31:36.938322; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global, with customized areas of interest.