vector tiles

larryzhang1 — Thu, 28 May 2020 05:51:36 GMT

Hi, all

As well known, both map tiles and vector tiles are playing foundation role in IoT-driven business ecosystems like core OT, Smart City and Smart Oilfield. Owing to the high-level requirements of reliability and security, however, those operational ecosystems are highly required to minimize IT dependences, such as 3rd-party server-side services, including GIS servers in map space (2D, 3D) and mapping servers in image space (drone mapping, mobile mapping). So, we have to effectively provide reliable location data packages for those ecosystems, saying, image tiles, vector tiles …

Regarding vector tiles within ArcGIS ecosystem, we are facing two issues now, which expect to be solved through the following:

looking forward to some built-in GP tools, which could be used for effective generation of vector tiles within desktop ArcGIS Pro without using 'vectortileserver', and then can be updated/ merged / imported into existing vector tiles, similar to 'image tile cache';
hoping that ‘existing’ vector tiles earlier generated/ updated by ArcGIS Pro would be directly manageable across ArcGIS ecosystem, including ArcGIS servers and also accessible via ArcGIS APIs/ SDK (Python, JS, Java), beyond 'vector tile package' (.vtpk) by SDK for .Net.

So, pls ArcGIS teams (Pro, Server, Developer) advise:

to meet this type of scenarios, what strategies ArcGIS have, including implementation of GP tool in Pro (saying, ‘GenerateVectorTiles’) and flexible deployment of vector tiles (saying, ArcGIS SDK for Java, in addition to ArcGIS servers)?
any other suggestions

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