Image tile layers

An image tile layerAn image tile layer is a data layer that can access and display raster tile data provided by an image layer service.Learn more is a data layerA data layer is a layer that references geographic data from a file or a service and is used to visualize the data in a map or scene.Learn more that can access and display image tile data provided by an map tile serviceA map tile service, formerly known as image tile service, is a data service that provides access to static, pre-rendered mao tiles. The tiles are typical in PNG format. Map tiles are typically retrieved by specifying a specific level, row, and column value.Learn more or an map tile packageAn map tile package, formerly known as image tile package, is a read-only data file containing static, pre-rendered map tiles.Learn more.

The spatial reference of the image tile layers should match the spatial reference of the basemap.

Map tile services

An map tile serviceA map tile service, formerly known as image tile service, is a data service that provides access to static, pre-rendered mao tiles. The tiles are typical in PNG format. Map tiles are typically retrieved by specifying a specific level, row, and column value.Learn more is a data serviceData services, also known as hosted data services, are services created dynamically to store and provide access to your data in ArcGIS. Examples are feature services, vector tile services, map tile services, image services, and scene services.Learn more that provides static pre-rendered image tiles to display at different scales.

You can use the following kinds of URLs for the source to add map tile services to your ArcGIS Map:

• Item page URL
• map tile services URL

You can learn more about map tile service in the Portal and data services guide.

Local map tile packages

Image tile layers can also access data from map tile packagesAn map tile package, formerly known as image tile package, is a read-only data file containing static, pre-rendered map tiles.Learn more stored locally.

An map tile packageAn map tile package, formerly known as image tile package, is a read-only data file containing static, pre-rendered map tiles.Learn more is a single .tpk (or .tpkx) file containing image tiles, and you can share the file as you would with any file. Compared with .tpk files, .tpkx files provide better performance on network shares and cloud store directories.