topic Re: Publising a Feature Services Vs. A Tiled Map Service in ArcGIS Online Questions

Publising a Feature Services Vs. A Tiled Map Service

deleted-user-W17i9rKaOdiH — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 03:14:15 GMT

Hi,

Can someone please provide a succinct explanation on the differences between publishing a map service as a tiled versus a feature service? I have read the help on each topic and am still not clear on what the differences and advantages are between them and how I know what type of service I want to publish.

Is this just as simple as tilled is raster data and feature is vector data?

Many thanks for your help!

Best,
Lyndy

Re: Publising a Feature Services Vs. A Tiled Map Service

DanielStauning — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 14:28:06 GMT

Lyndy,

You can think of a tiled map service as a cached map service. When you create a map cache, the server draws the entire map at several different scales and stores copies of the map images. It's much quicker for the server to return a cached image than to draw the map each time someone requests it. For more information on map caching, you can refer to this resource page:
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/#/What_is_map_caching/01540000048q000000/

Feature services have the underlying data exposed and allow for editing; new features can be added and existing features can be deleted or updated. Tiled map services cannot be edited as they simply provide images of the data.
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/#/What_is_a_feature_service/0154000002w8000000/

Thanks,

Daniel

Re: Publising a Feature Services Vs. A Tiled Map Service

PeterTimmers — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 23:07:45 GMT

Will we ever get map services?

I'd love labelling.

Data that's being changed on arcgis.com that can't be tiled.

Re: Publising a Feature Services Vs. A Tiled Map Service

MikeMinami — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:34:15 GMT

Yes, we are working on dynamic map services. No release date yet, however.

Thanks,

Mike