[Talk-us] ESRI Community Basemaps

[Julia Harrell]

The ESRI community basemaps are "more popular" among GIS professionals only because it's the only thing most of them know about, as insulated as they are inside their little shrink-wrapped cocoons :)   Seriously, seems like at least 50% of the state and local government GIS people I interact with still are not really aware that anything besides ESRI and Google exist. It's pathetic...

>I was forwarded this podcast about ESRI Community Basemaps. They compare
>OpenStreetMap and ESRI's Community Basemaps. They find that the community
>basemaps are much more popular among GIS professionals. Also, they are
>sponsored by ESRI and have a commercial for ESRI immediately before the
>podcast.