topic Cannot add WMTS service to map in ArcGIS Online Questions

Cannot add WMTS service to map

DonBarker — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:07:00 GMT

We have the option to Add Layer from Web > Add WMTS OGC Service.

This is the URL that I add, which fails:

http://choptankriverheritage.org/tileserver/1875bw/wmts

The error message from AGOL:
"The WMTS service, http://choptankriverheritage.org/tileserver/1875bw/wmts, can't be added to the map. It's either not available or you have entered an invalid URL for the type of layer you want to reference."

This describes the WMTS:
http://choptankriverheritage.org/tileserver/1875bw/WMTSCapabilities.xml

This WMTS is generated by Tileserver by Klokantech ( github.com/klokantech/tileserver-php/ ). It claims to be compliant with OGC Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) Both KVP and RESTful version 1.0.0.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Re: Cannot add WMTS service to map

DonBarker — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:10:08 GMT

I just discovered part of my problem.

I was using the URL for a single WMTS layer. This is the correct URL for the WMTS server:

http://choptankriverheritage.org/tileserver/wmts

It gets the WMTS capabilities (layer list) correctly and sends layers to my map here:

https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=1900ca75fa504ab9a831351a54c17dcb

It reads the extent correctly, too. But the layers still are invisible.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Don

Re: Cannot add WMTS service to map

ChrisWhitmore — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 17:00:04 GMT

Hi Don,

For completeness sake, here's the response I sent you over email:

Looks like there�??s an issue with the capabilities xml for the WMTS�?? it has references to localhost:

http://choptankriverheritage.org/tileserver/wmts/1.0.0/WMTSCapabilities.xml

Get xlink:href="http://localhost/wmts?">

Changing localhost to your WTMS server name should resolve the issue.

Thanks

Chris

Re: Cannot add WMTS service to map

DonBarker — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:42:24 GMT

Chris,

Thanks for looking into this.

At about the same time as your email, I got one from the developer, who noted a bug in their server app that created this localhost reference problem. (Naming the server folder 'tileserver' -- same as the app name -- causes naming collision).

I'll be working this later today. Appreciate your help.

Don

Re: Cannot add WMTS service to map

DonBarker — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:29:57 GMT

A note for anyone using Klokantech's Tileserver -- You'll need to configure the tileserver.php file from localhost to your domain and the Tileserver folder, like this example:

Change this
"baseUrls" => array("http://localhost/")

to this
"baseUrls" => array("http://choptankriverheritage.org/historic_maps/")

This fixed the error that prevented me from adding the WMTS to my AGOL map here:

https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=1900ca75fa504ab9a831351a54c17dcb

Thanks to Chris for pointing this out.