This web map provides a detailed vector basemap with a monochromatic style and content adjusted to support Human Geography information.  The web map consists of 3 vector tile layers:

• A label reference layer including cities and communities, countries, administrative units, and at larger scales street names.
• A detail reference layer including administrative boundaries, roads and highways, and larger bodies of water. This layer is designed to be used with a high degree of transparency so that the detail does not compete with your information. It is set at approximately 60% in this web map, but can be adjusted.
• A simple basemap consisting of land areas in a very light gray only.

Precise Tile Registration: The map uses the improved tiling scheme “WGS84 Geographic, Version 2” to ensure proper tile positioning at higher resolutions (neighborhood level and beyond). The new tiling scheme is much more precise than tiling schemes of the legacy basemaps Esri released years ago. We recommend that you start using this new basemap for any new web maps in WGS84 that you plan to author. Due to the number of differences between the old and new tiling schemes, some web clients will not be able to overlay tile layers in the old and new tiling schemes in one web map.