topic Is it possibile to increase quality / resolution of ArcGIS cached / dynamic Map Services? in ArcGIS Online Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/is-it-possibile-to-increase-quality-resolution-of/m-p/633270#M31557 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Maybe this question is too generic, but it is something that has been bugging me since I started working with web mapping. The output of ArcGIS Map Services, whether dynamic or cached, is consistently worse compared to what you see on the&nbsp;'authoring'&nbsp;side (ArcMap and especially ArcGIS Pro).</P><P>I am already using all the best practices such as setting antialiasing to best/force and PNG32 as format, but the result is always blurrier&nbsp;than expected, to the point that (small) labels that are perfectly visible on the map/project, when cached or displayed with a service are almost un-readable.</P><P></P><P>While I am sure that this has something to do with the rendering engine and its limitations, I also feel that&nbsp;we might see some improvements if we could change the default DPI value which is 96, when quality is paramount over bandwidth/size. The&nbsp;thing is that I cannot find a reliable workflow or even a setting anywhere to serve high resolution services when needed. I managed to create a 192 dpi tile package by setting scales manually, only to find out that when displayed/published&nbsp;tiles from a given level are displayed at the wrong scale (e.g L05 at L06), which makes the extra-resolution completely useless.</P><P></P><P>Does anyone have an idea on how to tackle this problem or successfully managed to create high DPI cached / dynamic services (beside using vector tiles) or we are effectively stuck with&nbsp;a "blurry standard"?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 28 Nov 2017 10:18:22 GMT MarcoLucafo_ 2017-11-28T10:18:22Z Is it possibile to increase quality / resolution of ArcGIS cached / dynamic Map Services? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/is-it-possibile-to-increase-quality-resolution-of/m-p/633270#M31557 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Maybe this question is too generic, but it is something that has been bugging me since I started working with web mapping. The output of ArcGIS Map Services, whether dynamic or cached, is consistently worse compared to what you see on the&nbsp;'authoring'&nbsp;side (ArcMap and especially ArcGIS Pro).</P><P>I am already using all the best practices such as setting antialiasing to best/force and PNG32 as format, but the result is always blurrier&nbsp;than expected, to the point that (small) labels that are perfectly visible on the map/project, when cached or displayed with a service are almost un-readable.</P><P></P><P>While I am sure that this has something to do with the rendering engine and its limitations, I also feel that&nbsp;we might see some improvements if we could change the default DPI value which is 96, when quality is paramount over bandwidth/size. The&nbsp;thing is that I cannot find a reliable workflow or even a setting anywhere to serve high resolution services when needed. I managed to create a 192 dpi tile package by setting scales manually, only to find out that when displayed/published&nbsp;tiles from a given level are displayed at the wrong scale (e.g L05 at L06), which makes the extra-resolution completely useless.</P><P></P><P>Does anyone have an idea on how to tackle this problem or successfully managed to create high DPI cached / dynamic services (beside using vector tiles) or we are effectively stuck with&nbsp;a "blurry standard"?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 28 Nov 2017 10:18:22 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/is-it-possibile-to-increase-quality-resolution-of/m-p/633270#M31557 MarcoLucafo_ 2017-11-28T10:18:22Z