Comparing online street maps
ESRI offers two online street maps to enrich your ArcGIS applications:
- World Street Map provides a comprehensive worldwide street map with highway-level data for the world and street-level data for the United States, Canada, Japan, Southern Africa, and a number of countries in Europe and elsewhere.
- Bing Maps Road offers worldwide road data with street-level detail for many countries/regions around the world.
Compare street maps
Use this application to compare the online street maps available from ESRI.
Comparison table
Use this table to learn about the differences between the online street maps available from ESRI.
| Map Details | World Street Map | Bing Maps Road |
|---|---|---|
| Small-Scale Coverage | 1:140,000 Global | 1:70,000 Global |
| Large-Scale Coverage | International | International |
| Maximum Scale | 1:4,500 | 1:4,000 |
| Update Frequency | Semi-Annual | Quarterly |
| Primary Data Providers | AND, Tele Atlas | Europa, Navteq |
| Service Provider | ESRI | Microsoft |
| ArcGIS Licensing | ||
| Explorer | Free | Free with an ArcGIS Desktop license or Subscription without |
| Desktop | Free | Free with maintenance |
| Server (internal use and non-commercial external use) | Free | Subscription |
| Server (external commercial use) | Subscription | Subscription |