Community-Mapped World Basemap with Special Areas of Interest

A customized world basemap vector tile layer, uniquely symbolized to highlight special areas of interest (AOIs) created and edited by Community Maps contributors. These AOIs include landscaping features like grass, trees, and rock, as well as sports amenities such as tennis courts and football and baseball field lines. The layer is built using the same data sources as Esri's World Topographic Map and other Esri basemaps.

Use Cases

• Enhancing topographic maps with community-contributed landscaping features like grass and trees.
• Visualizing sports facility locations and layouts, such as tennis courts and baseball fields.
• Creating customized basemaps for local planning and recreational area management.
• Integrating community-edited points of interest into broader geospatial applications.

Strengths

• Integrates community-sourced edits, providing localized detail not found in standard basemaps.
• Built on authoritative Esri basemap data sources, ensuring a reliable foundational geospatial framework.

Limitations

• Specific column names and data schema are not provided, limiting precise understanding of the data structure.
• The dataset's size (rows, file size) is unknown across all sources, making it difficult to assess scale.
• Conflicting 'last updated' dates (2026-05-27 and 2026-05-01) create uncertainty about the most recent version.

Provenance

Source

City of Moreton Bay's Data Hub (author: moretonbaygis), integrated with Esri basemap data and Community Maps contributions.

Collection Method

Community mapping contributions curated and integrated into a vector tile basemap.

Freshness

Last updated dates range from 2026-05-01 to 2026-05-27, indicating recent maintenance.

Geography

Global, as a world basemap.