Manage map tile cache

The cache settings for a hosted map tile layer (item) can be used to control the map tile service cache.

The tile settings allow you to:

• Set the minimum and maximum scales at which a hosted map tile layer draws when added to a map.
• Manage the scale levels at which tiles are built.
• Define how tile updates are managed: manually or automatically to reflect changes to feature data.
• Allow tiles to be used in offline maps and apps.

What is a map tile cache?

Map tile services published to and hosted in ArcGIS portal support fast visualization of large datasets using a collection of pre-generated map tiles. Map tiles are stored in an image format, such as PNG32 or JPG. Map tile layers are ideal when you want to display a large number of complex features efficiently. For example, you may have high density elevation data that you want to be able to view seamlessly for an entire county.

To take advantage of the drawing performance of hosted map tiles, you can publish them from hosted feature layers or hosted feature layer views you own. Tiles published from hosted feature layers reflect the changes you make to the source feature data, and these tile layers automatically have popups enabled.

How to manage tile cache properties

The steps to manage map tile cache settings are:

1. Sign in to your portal:

   • ArcGIS Location Platform: Go to https://location.arcgis.com > My portal.
   • ArcGIS Online: Go to https://www.arcgis.com/home/signin.html.
   • ArcGIS Enterprise: Go to your portal URL. Learn more at ArcGIS Enterprise > Use > Get started > Access.
2. Find the item.
3. Use the item page to manage tile settings.

Types of management operations

You can use an item page or the ArcGIS REST API to perform map tile service management operations.

• Service properties: The service properties contain the current settings of the map tile service. These include a reference to the source layer, the tiling schema and levels of detail.

• Visible range: The visible range is the minimum and maximum scales at which the layer will draw.

• Cache: The map tile cache can be set to generate tiles automatically or manually. When you configure a map tile service to create tiles automatically, ArcGIS Online creates tiles on demand as they are needed. Once enabled, tiles are cached and available for all subsequent views. When the source hosted feature layer or feature layer view is edited, changes are reflected in the hosted map tile layer within a couple minutes.

• Offline mode: Allow the tiles to be downloaded and used in an offline map.

Code examples

You can use data management tools to manage the tile cache settings of a hosted map tile layer or you can use the ArcGIS REST APIs. The following examples illustrate how to programmatically get the cache properties, set the visible range, set automatic cache creation, build tiles and set the offline mode of a map tile service.

1 GET https://services3.arcgis.com/GVgbJbqm8hXASVYi/arcgis/rest/services/Point_Dume_Parcels_Tiled/MapServer?f=json&token={{access_token}} HTTP/1.1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 {  "id": 13,  "name": "Point_Dume_parcels",  "server": "GVgbJbqm8hXASVYi",  "ownerUserName": "esri_devlabs",  "serviceDescription": "",  "mapName": "Point_Dume_parcels",  "description": "",  "abstract": "",  "metadataLink": "https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/039369ca595648c6a82f42dbfe06a30a/info/metadata/metadata.xml?format=default",  "keywords": [],  "copyrightText": "",  "layers": [  {  "id": 0,  "name": "Point_Dume_parcels",  "parentLayerId": -1,  "defaultVisibility": true,  "subLayerIds": null,  "minScale": 72224,  "maxScale": 1128,  "type": "Feature Layer",  "geometryType": "esriGeometryPolygon"  }  ],  "tables": [], 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 POST https://services3.arcgis.com/GVgbJbqm8hXASVYi/arcgis/rest/services/Point_Dume_Parcels_Tiled/MapServer/edit HTTP/1.1 f=json &token={access_token} &sourceItemId=0ade343c5e54499998c27a2ab743bb70 &minScale=25706 &maxScale=1128 &serviceDefinition={  "minScale":"25706",  "maxScale":"1128" }

1 2 3 {  "success":true }

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 POST https://services3.arcgis.com/GVgbJbqm8hXASVYi/arcgis/rest/services/Point_Dume_Parcels_Tiled/MapServer/edit HTTP/1.1 f=json &token={{access_token}} &sourceItemId=0ade343c5e54499998c27a2ab743bb70 &minScale=72224 &maxScale=2500 &serviceDefinition={{  "minScale":"72224",  "maxScale":"2500",  "exportTilesAllowed":false }} &exportTilesAllowed=false &cacheOnDemand=true

1 2 3 {  "success":true }

1 2 3 4 5 POST https://services3.arcgis.com/GVgbJbqm8hXASVYi/arcgis/rest/admin/services/Point_Dume_Parcels_Tiled/MapServer/updateTiles HTTP/1.1 f=json &token={access_token} levels=[13,14,15] extent="-13229544.225200001,4028844.615199998,-13221610.4599,4033126.3599999994"

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 {  "id": "7428a221-da84-47d9-b3cb-2b4167b5a0bd",  "name": "Point_Dume_parcels",  "status": "Success",  "itemId": "039369ca595648c6a82f42dbfe06a30a",  "type": "Map Service",  "jobId": "9383e05f-fd2e-4f20-b683-8747623b1780",  "message": "success" }

1 2 3 POST https://services3.arcgis.com/GVgbJbqm8hXASVYi/arcgis/rest/admin/services/Point_Dume_Parcels_Tiled/MapServer/jobs/{jobId} HTTP/1.1 f=json &token={access_token}

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 {  "jobId": "9383e05f-fd2e-4f20-b683-8747623b1780",  "type": "CACHECOOKER",  "jobStatus": "DONE",  "submitter": "esri_devlabs",  "percentComplete": 100,  "message": "",  "startTime": 1689776914880,  "submitTime": 1689776905723,  "lastTime": 1689776934397,  "extent": {  "xmin": -13229544.225200001,  "ymin": 4028844.615199998,  "xmax": -13221610.4599,  "ymax": 4033126.3599999994,  "spatialReference": {  "wkid": 102100,  "latestWkid": 3857  }  },  "numTasks": 1,  "numDoneTasks": 1,  "numErrorTasks": 0,  "numCanceledTasks": 0,  "numSubmittedTasks": 0,  "numProcessingTasks": 0,  "estimatedNumTiles": 32,  "numTiles": 32,  "estimatedTilesSize": 491520,  "tilesSize": 105187,  "averageTaskTime": 9.959,  "totalTaskTime": 9.959,  "levelStats": [  {  "level": 15,  "processingTime": 19.919,  "numTasks": 1,  "numDoneTasks": 1,  "estimatedNumTiles": 32,  "numTiles": 32,  "estimatedTilesSize": 491520,  "tilesSize": 105187,  "downloadTime": 6.519,  "generationTime": 3.128,  "uploadTime": 0.313  }  ] }

1 2 3 4 5 POST https://services3.arcgis.com/GVgbJbqm8hXASVYi/arcgis/rest/admin/services/Point_Dume_Parcels_Tiled/MapServer/edit HTTP/1.1 f=json &sourceItemId="{SourceFeatureLayerItemID}" &exportTilesAllowed=true &token="{access_token}"

1 2 3 {  "success":true }

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API support

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