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- Featured samples
- Intro to MapView (2D)
- Intro to SceneView (3D)
- Intro to layers
- Intro to popups
- Intro to widgets
Latest Samples
- ElevationProfile widget
- Visualize data on Mars
- SceneLayer attribute editing (Editor widget)
- Point clustering - query clusters
- Intro to layer effect
- Highlight feature with drop-shadow
- FeatureEffect - multiple effects
- FeatureEffect - drop-shadow
- Size visual variable themes
- VectorTileLayer - update style layers
Mapping and Views
- Load a basic web map
- Save a web map
- Load a basic web scene
- Save a web scene
- Web scene - slides
- Create a local scene
- SceneView - goTo()
- View padding
- Use Portal Basemaps
- Create a custom basemap
- Swap web maps in the same view
- Switch view from 2D to 3D
- Composite views
- Custom background for SceneView
- Underground navigation in global mode
- Take a screenshot of a SceneView
Layers
- Create layer from portal item
- VectorTileLayer
- VectorTileLayer from JSON
- VectorTileLayer - update style layers
- IntegratedMeshLayer
- IntegratedMeshLayer modification
- StreamLayer
- KMLLayer
- OGCFeatureLayer
- OpenStreetMapLayer
- WebTileLayer
- WMSLayer
- WMTSLayer
- Select WMTS sublayer
- GeoJSONLayer
- GeoRSSLayer
- BuildingSceneLayer with Slice widget
- Filter BuildingSceneLayer with BuildingExplorer
FeatureLayer
- Intro to FeatureLayer
- Created from array of graphics
- Add or remove graphics from a FeatureLayer
- Highlight point features
- Label features using Arcade expressions
- Add labels to a FeatureLayer
- Multi-line labels
- Add multiple label classes to a layer
- Filter features by attributes
- Apply effects to features
- Basic Querying on FeatureLayer
- Created from a shapefile
SceneLayer
- Intro to SceneLayer
- Filter features by geometry with SceneLayer
- Realistic buildings
- Coloring options for textured buildings
- Add edges to a SceneLayer
- Point geometries
- Filter and query
- Query client-side 3D extents
- SceneLayerView - query statistics by geometry
- Highlight SceneLayer
MapImageLayer
- Intro to MapImageLayer
- Toggle sublayer visibility
- Set definition expressions on sublayers
- Set renderers on sublayers
- Label sublayer features
- Create dynamic map layers
- Dynamic data layer with table join
- Dynamic data layer with query table
- MapImageLayer - Explore data from a dynamic workspace
- Dynamic data layer with raster data
CSVLayer
- Intro to CSVLayer
- CSVLayer - Project points on the fly
ImageryLayer
- Intro to ImageryLayer
- Intro to ImageryTileLayer
- Intro to WCSLayer
- Client side pixel filter
- Server side raster function
- Client side rendering rules
- ImageryTileLayer - shaded relief renderer
- Visualizing wind data with VectorFieldRenderer
- Raster attribute table
- Client-side chart for ImageryLayer
- Image coordinate system
PointCloudLayer
- Intro to PointCloudLayer
- Toggle visualizations
- Change point size and density
- Intensity color modulation
- Filter points in a PointCloudLayer
Custom Layers
- Custom TileLayer
- Custom DynamicLayer
- Custom LERC Layer
- Custom BlendLayer
- Custom ElevationLayer - Exaggerating elevation
- Custom ElevationLayer - Thematic data as elevation
- Custom WebGL layer views
- Animated lines with WebGL
- Tessellation helpers for custom WebGL layer views
- Tiling support for custom WebGL layer views
- Masking effect using a custom layer view
- Build a custom layer view using deck.gl
Query
- FeatureLayerView - query
- Query attachments
- Query related features
- Query statistics client-side by distance
- Query statistics client-side
- Highlight features by geometry
- Query features from a FeatureLayer
- FeatureLayerView - query statistics by geometry
- SceneLayerView - query statistics by geometry
Editing
- Edit features with the Editor widget
- Edit features in 3D with the Editor widget
- SceneLayer attribute editing (Editor widget)
- Editor widget with configurations
- FeatureTable with editing enabled
- FeatureLayer applyEdits
- Update Feature Attributes
- Advanced attribute editing
- Popup with edit action
Draw
- Sketch widget
- Sketch update validation
- Draw non-intersecting line
- Import glTF 3D models
- Sketch in 3D
Visual effects
- Intro to layer blending
- Intro to layer effect
- Multiply blendMode
- Composite blending
- Highlight feature with effects and blending
- Highlight feature with drop-shadow
- FeatureLayerView - query statistics by geometry
- Highlight features by geometry
- Apply effects to features
- FeatureEffect - multiple effects
- FeatureEffect - drop-shadow
- Animate color visual variable
- Animate layer view effect
Visualization
- Symbol Playground
- Vary point sizes by scale
- Visualize features by unique types
- Visualize data with class breaks
- Visualize data with dictionary renderer
- Size visual variable themes
- Generate data-driven continuous color visualization
- Generate data-driven visualization of unique values
- Generate continuous color visualization for 3D buildings
- Generate a class breaks visualization
- Generate a relationship visualization
- Generate a predominance visualization
- Generate a dot density visualization
- Data-driven continuous color
- Data-driven continuous size
- Dot density
- Visualize points with a heatmap
- Create a scale-dependent visualization
- Wurman dots
- Data-driven extrusion
- Multivariate visualizations (3D)
- Multivariate data exploration
- Extrude buildings footprints based on real world heights
- Create a custom visualization using Arcade
- CIMSymbol
- CIMSymbol lines and polygons
- Arrows along a line
- WebStyleSymbol (2D)
- Visualize feature layer with proportionally-sized WebStyleSymbols (2D)
- Visualize features with realistic WebStyleSymbols
- Realistic water visualization in 3D
- Path visualization in 3D
- Point styles for cities
- Using callout lines with labels
- Urban visualizations with polygon patterns
- Animate color visual variable
- Update legend text
- Update a renderer's attribute
- Customize ColorSlider Histogram
- Client-side projection
Clustering
- Point clustering - basic configuration
- Point clustering - generate suggested configuration
- Point clustering - query clusters
- Point clustering - advanced configuration
- Point clustering with visual variables
Popups
- Intro to PopupTemplate
- Dock popup positions
- Multiple popup elements
- Custom popup content
- Reference Arcade expressions in PopupTemplate
- Summarize intersecting points in a popup
- PopupTemplate with functions
- PopupTemplate with promise
- Popup with DOM node
- Popup actions
- Custom popup actions per feature
- Popup with edit action
- FeatureTable widget with popup interaction
Graphics
- Intro to graphics
- Add graphics to a SceneView
- Working with 3D mesh primitives
- Low poly terrain using mesh geometry
Searching
- Search widget
- Search widget with multiple sources
- Search widget with custom source
- QueryTask
- FindTask
- IdentifyTask
Time
- TimeSlider widget
- Filter features with TimeSlider
- TimeSlider with timeOffset
- Time-based layer
Analysis
- GeometryEngine - geodesic buffers
- Geoprocessing - viewshed analysis
- Geoprocessing - hotspot analysis
- RouteTask
- Query Elevation (points)
- Query Elevation (lines)
Widgets
- BasemapGallery widget
- Bookmarks widget
- CoordinateConversion widget
- CoordinateConversion widget - custom formats
- Daylight widget
- Directions widget
- ElevationProfile widget
- FeatureTable widget
- FeatureTable widget with a map
- FeatureTable with editing enabled
- FeatureTable widget with popup interaction
- Intro to Histogram widget
- HistogramRangeSlider
- LayerList widget
- LayerList widget with actions
- Legend widget
- Add a Legend to LayerList
- Legend widget card style
- Line of sight widget
- Locate button
- Measurement widget
- Measurement in 2D
- Measurement in 3D
- BuildingSceneLayer with Slice widget
- Print widget
- Swipe widget
- Swipe widget with scroll
- TableList widget
- Track current location
- Track widget simulation
- TimeSlider widget
- TimeSlider with timeOffset
- Expand widget
- Feature widget
- Feature widget in a side panel
- Feature widget - Query graphics from multiple layerViews
- Using the view's UI
- Responsive widgets
- Responsive apps using CSS
Widgets (Advanced)
- Create a custom widget
- Custom Recenter widget
- Using widgets with React
- Custom widgets with Vue
More 3D
- Toggle ground elevation
- SceneView - shadow and lighting
- SceneView - hitTest
- Elevation options
- ElevationLayer
- Visualize data on Mars
- Satellites in 3D view
- SceneView memory resources
Other
- Animate layer visibility
- Request data from a remote server
- Access ArcGIS Online items via OAuth
- Chaining promises
- Access features with pointer events
- Synchronize MapView and SceneView
- Using Esri Icon Fonts
- Watch for changes
- Event explorer / watch properties
- Zoom to extent of features
- Drag and drop portal items
- Disable view navigation
- Disable rotation on the view
- Disable mouse-wheel

VectorTileLayer

Explore in the sandboxView live

This sample shows how to add a VectorTileLayer to a map.A VectorTileLayer displays cached data in vector format, making the styles of its layers customizable.

VectorTileLayer

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