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Welcome to ArcGIS Online (Beta)

ArcGIS Online provides a series of 2D map services and 3D globe services that you can use to support your GIS work. These ready-to-use services can be accessed with any ArcGIS application—for example, with ArcGIS Explorer, ArcMap, ArcGlobe, ArcReader, or Web mapping applications that you create with ArcGIS Server.

ArcGIS Online includes a number of online map layers that you can use within your own mapping projects. This example illustrates the use of a shaded relief map service from ArcGIS Online overlaid with local roads.

A range of geographic themes is available from ArcGIS Online as both 2D maps and 3D globes, such as the political boundary globe shown here.

ArcGIS Online includes a multi-scale street map for the world.

Portions of the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska are shown here. Global, multi-resolution imagery is available as a map service from ArcGIS Online.

ArcGIS Online services are always available on the Web so that users with Internet access can use these services at any time. You can use the ArcGIS Online maps as your base map framework for deploying GIS applications to your users both inside and outside your organization.

What you can do with ArcGIS Online

Using ArcGIS Online, you can:

• Explore data for many digital worlds seamlessly in both 2D and 3D maps—for example using ArcGIS Explorer, the free 3D application for ArcGIS.
• Create your own digital worlds in 2D and 3D by combining ArcGIS Online services with your local data and services from ArcGIS Server, ArcIMS, Open Geospatial Consortium WMS services, and KML Services.
• Embed ArcGIS Online services into your own maps and applications and share the results with others.
• Add user tasks from your own secure servers and fuse them with services from ArcGIS Online and other servers—for example, visibility modeling, proximity search, or demographic analysis.