operational layer

An operational layer is a layerA layer is a reference to a collection of geographic data that is used to access and display data. The data for layers are typically provided by the basemap layer service and data services.Learn more that references geographic data from a file or a service, and is used to visualize the data in a map or scene. Operational layers are displayed on top of a basemap layer. Operational layers are commonly hosted and managed ArcGIS as feature layersA feature layer (client-side) is a data layer that can access and display features from a feature service that has the same type of geometry and attribute fields.Learn more, KML layers, WFS layers, and tile layersA tile layer is a data layer that can access and display tiles (rectangular sections) into a continuous layer. The tiles are either raster image tiles or vector tiles that are generated into a tile cache before being made available for use.Learn more.