Problems Publishing Hosted Elevation Layer

Question

I have been trying to publish an elevation layer all day and have been running into problems.

I have been using the technique shown on this page.

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/sharing/overview/web-elevation-layer.htm

As well as this technique

https://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-online/manage-data/publish-elevation-layers.htm

I am constantly just getting a publish failed with no explanation as to why.

After multiple attempts I tried to just publish my entire scene which should have included an elevation layer as seen in this blog post by Russell Roberts. https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/3d-gis/3d-gis/creating-and-using-elevation-layers-in-arcgis-online-arcgis-pro/

Though I did notice that an elevation layer was not included in the  share as web scene menu.

Is this functionality still possible? Has the function been removed? Chances are it is user error but I have been successful publishing hosted elevation layers before so any help would be welcomed.

russell_roberts · Answer

With 2.3 you will just publish the elevation straight to Online not using any of the manage cache-create tile package workflow. The elevation layer will be under the Elevation Surfaces in the contents pane in Pro and you can share the complete web scene or just the elevation layer.

LoganRudkevitch · Answer

Good Morning Russell,

I was using 2.2.4 and did note that there is an update to 2.3. I will try the update to the latest and test again.

The type of account is a publisher within a large organization. The one time I was able to get this to work at home I was using just a personal use account and organization.

I am not able to share the data I have been using for this specific example but another dem I have uploaded in the past and failed last night trying to upload more are the ArcticDEM tiles, which can  be downloaded as single tiles from here. The ArcticDEM tiles are much larger than the dem I was trying to load in this example, (2.24 GB vs. 2.36MB).

Also just for the process itself, do you suggest creating a tile cache before you share as a web layer or is just sharing the tif enough as it seems like when they are shared the elevation tile cache is being recreated on ARCGIS Online?

Any help with this would be great as this is a great feature and I really want to keep taking advantage of it,

Logan

russell_roberts · Answer

Hey Logan, couple questions for you

What version of Pro are you publishing with?

What type of an account are you publishing with like Organization account, trial account etc.?

Can you share the elevation data you are trying to publish?

Thanks!

Russ