Finding coordinates of tiles

Question

I'm looking to represent the most viewed tiles from my ArcGIS Server service, which I can get from my logfiles, in a map. Something along the lines of some of the examples found here http://content.stamen.com/log_maps.

However, I am not sure how to get either the origin or centroid of a given tile. This page helps conceptually http://www.maptiler.org/google-maps-coordinates-tile-bounds-projection/, but there are some differences that would probably require a considerable amount of rewrite of the python file.

1. My cached service is in state plane feet, not web mercator
2. ESRI doesn't use Google, TMS, or Quadtree indexing of tiles (although they are similar to TMS?)
3. I believe the origin of the cache is relative to the map extent at time of publishing, but I'm not sure

Anyone know of a way to do this?

Matt

MattLane · Accepted Answer

I was thinking too hard. The Rest info for the cached service had all the details I needed.

Tile url's have the following scheme[zoom]/[ty]/[tx]

The cached details on the Rest page give me origin coordinates and resolution for each scale/zoom.

To get the upper left corner of a tile, I can use the following equationsx = xorigin + (tx * 256 * res) y = yorigin - (ty * 256 * res)

To get centroid for a tile, I just need to offset that by half the width/height of a tilex = xorigin + (tx * 256 * res) + (128 * res) y = yorigin - (ty * 256 * res) - (128 * res)