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Many organizations use ArcGIS to share and work with open data. People are looking for ways to liberate data so they can meet mandated transparency requirements and enable greater insights. Esri offers options to make that data liberation possible.

ArcGIS Open Data

Build an open data community with ArcGIS Open Data. This feature of ArcGIS Online is a way to find public data for your GIS and share your own authoritative data with the public. All vector datasets are automatically available for download as CSV, KML, and Shapefiles and accessible via the GeoJSON and GeoService APIs.

Discovering Open Data

ArcGIS Open Data provides public access to open data directly from the source. Discover map, feature and images services, spreadsheets and tables, and even web apps and documents. Search and download entire datasets or a filtered subset in a variety of data formats, or access it dynamically via an API.

Discover Open Data

Sharing Open Data

ArcGIS Open Data uses the ArcGIS Online groups you already have to identify open data, allowing you to quickly publish or remove your open data. Your open datasets automatically sync with the latest version of your sources. They can even integrate with other open data platforms such as CKAN.

Share Open Data

OpenStreetMap

ArcGIS makes it easy to integrate OpenStreetMap (OSM) data into your maps and apps. OpenStreetMap is an open, collaborative project designed to create a free, editable map of the world. Volunteers gather and upload location data using GPS, local knowledge, and other free sources of information.

OpenStreetMap Basemap

Esri includes a live tiled map service of OpenStreetMap as a default ArcGIS basemap.

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ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap

ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap is a free, open source add-on for ArcGIS for Desktop that allows you to download, import, edit, analyze, and upload OpenStreetMap data.

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