Image tile layers

An is a that can access and display image tile data provided by an or an .

Image tile layer

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

Map tile services

An is a 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 Mapping and location services guide.

Local map tile packages

Image tile layers can also access data from stored locally.

An 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.

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