How to add Digital Earth Africa Coastlines Web Services to ESRI ArcGIS Pro

How to add Digital Earth Africa Coastlines Web Services to Esri ArcGIS Pro

Digital Earth Africa Coastline service is a vector dataset that provides free access to more than 20 years of shoreline changes rates and location  across the African coast to support sustainable coastal areas management.

This dataset is distributed via OGC-compliant webservices that can be consumed by ArcGIS. The procedure below explains how to import Coastlines into ArcGIS Pro 2.8.

  1. Open ArcGIS Pro.

  2. Click on File > Add Data > Add Data or the icon in the top tool menu

  3. Select Add data from Path  in the  muti choice look up table.






  1. Copy  the entire following addresses in the Path box

  2. For service type, select “A WMS OGC Web Service


  1. Click Add

  2. Make sure you tick “DE Africa Coastline v0.4.0"