Topographic Vector Files- what about Contours?

Question

While the ArcGIS World Topographic Map (raster) has contours, the Vector World Topographic Map does not.

Contours seem like a good use case for Vector Tiles, but they are not there.

What is intended if you want to show contours with it? Is there another source for them.

If I were to somehow make my own vector tiles for contours or get them somewhere, I am not sure I could use them because ArcGISVectorTiledLayer appears to only allow ESRI sources - Uri or VectorTileCache.

I'm in a field where my customer base expects to see contours on a topographic map. Otherwise, it is a street map, not a topographic map.

SomeGISGuy · Answer

Whether the ArcGIS online service should contain contours or not I think is a question for the AGO team.

Wrt to using your own data you can totally do this. You can either author a Vector Tile Pacage (.vtpk) file in ArcGIS Pro, or publish your own vector tile services to either your own ArcGIS Server or to ArcGIS Online.

NathanDMellor · Answer

Given that, what are the best options for contours if using vector topographic map?

NagmaYasmin · Answer

Hi Nathan,

I see what you mean, thanks for the clarification.

Regards,

Nagma