topic Re: Exporting Vector Tile Package in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Exporting Vector Tile Package

MichalStolba — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 13:57:58 GMT

I am trying to export vector tiles (.vtpk) for offline use, preferably from https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=f42ec2699c7d4819bbbe60eca31b6b3e or even better the vector variant of Light Gray Canvas (I would even like to do some edits to the map or add my own style).

I am trying to do it via ArcGIS Pro, but regardless of what I try, I get Error 00102 "Map does not contain a required layer type for web vector tile layer"

What am I doing wrong?

Or could you suggest some other way to do the desired task? I have also tried Tile Package Kreator but id does not seem to support vector tiles.

Re: Exporting Vector Tile Package

MarkBockenhauer — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:13:27 GMT

Michal,

Currently, there is no support for extracting Vector Tiles in ArcGIS Pro.

For offline editing in Collector it is possible to create map areas in the .vtpk format. The map areas are associated with the web map. When used in Collector the map area can be downloaded for offline use in Collector.Take web maps offline—ArcGIS Online Help | ArcGIS

There is no out of the box tool available that I am aware of for doing this, however using the Runtime SDK a developer could write a tool to extract vector tiles from a vector tile service that has export enabled. ExportVectorTilesTask Class

Mark

Re: Exporting Vector Tile Package

MichalStolba — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:56:12 GMT

Hi Mark,

thank you very much, that means I don't need to waste more time on trying

that! The SDK approach seems to be the most suitable.

Best,

Michal

Re: Exporting Vector Tile Package

BKS — Mon, 10 May 2021 16:35:21 GMT

Hi Mark,

I realize this was answered over 2 years ago but...

I'm looking to create an offline map for s123. The AOI is the size of an average province or US state. I suspect that if it were possible that an ESRI vector tile basemap (vector tile cache) for this area would be less than 50MB. If I provide a tile package for the basemap, it will be closer to 500MB. I realize I could break it up into areas but if it's possible I'd rather provide one offline map.

Has anything changed in this regard in past 2+ years? If not, any plans to add?

Thanks, bks

Re: Exporting Vector Tile Package

ILoveMap — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 13:48:09 GMT

@BKS I had the same exact question! It would be great to use a state-wide vtpk in s123 apps, but I've hit the same road block. Any insight?

Re: Exporting Vector Tile Package

BKS — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 02:09:10 GMT

@ILoveMap. Funny you should ask. That was so long ago and I'm just about to be looking at this again in the next week or so. I do not have a solution yet but I'm hopeful I'll be able to resolve this in the coming weeks. Also, ESRI Canada is putting on a webinar next Feb 8 for taking their Community Map of Canada offline. I'm somewhat optimistic this might be helpful to my requirement. Sounds like you are in USA but you might find this useful regardless.

I will post whatever I learn in the coming weeks if you can please do the same it would be much appreciated.

Re: Exporting Vector Tile Package

MiltonWilliams — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 16:39:56 GMT

I've been using this for some time to get esri vector tile packages. https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/apps/data-management/introducing-tile-package-kreator-esri-labs/

Re: Exporting Vector Tile Package

BrettLessner_Nsight — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 19:11:32 GMT

Just wanted to update this thread...

You can download vector tiles in ArcGIS Pro using the Download Map tool within the Map tab and checking Include basemap and tile layers. This will download the vector tiles as a vtpk.

Re: Exporting Vector Tile Package

ahargreaves_FW — Wed, 10 May 2023 17:57:35 GMT

@BrettLessner_Nsight what am I doing wrong here? I get no *.vtpk when I download....

Re: Exporting Vector Tile Package

BrettLessner_Nsight — Wed, 10 May 2023 18:29:56 GMT

Hard to tell - looks correct.

Have you tried using any other vector tile layers configured for export? Give one these a try - Esri Vector Tile Basemaps for Export. I've only used those - all successful.

What version of Pro are you using? I'm at 2.9.5 and don't get the option to set the output folder like you did.

Re: Exporting Vector Tile Package

ahargreaves_FW — Wed, 10 May 2023 18:45:48 GMT

Thanks for the quick reply.

It works with the navigation map.

Thanks

Re: Exporting Vector Tile Package

davedoesgis — Tue, 16 May 2023 20:49:09 GMT

Pro 3.0.2 doesn't ask me where to store it or what to name it. It created a "VectorTileMaps" folder under my APRX's folder and put it there with a giant GUID (ID number) in the VTPK's file name.

Re: Exporting Vector Tile Package

davedoesgis — Wed, 17 May 2023 01:19:32 GMT

Does anyone know how to specify an extent, rather than just using the current map extent? My map is really huge and I'm drawing it at 1:480,000. The drop-down for the scale has 1.1M as the most zoomed-in extent.

My guess is that my map is just so big that it doesn't want to let me download that many features/tiles. It feels like I need to export this in tiles, and using screen extent feels rather imprecise. I can't find a GeoProcessing tool to do this, but maybe I'm missing something. Any other ideas?

Or, if I download slightly overlapping areas, can I clip them to create meta-tiles (of tiled layers)?

Re: Exporting Vector Tile Package

BrettLessner_Nsight — Wed, 17 May 2023 13:31:55 GMT

@davedoesgis,

Not that I've seen. The tool says "Pan and zoom the map to determine the area to download." In my experience, that was the only way to change extent of the export. If you play around with your current map extent you'll see that the larger scales become available in the Max scale dropdown as you zoom in.

Overall, there just isn't a place to set parameters like one can in the Export Tile Cache and Manage Tile Cache tools.

-Brett

Re: Exporting Vector Tile Package

davedoesgis — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:42:30 GMT

@BrettLessner_Nsight- Agreed. If there's a GP tool or some API, I'm not aware of it, so it looks like the current map extent is the only way to set the extent.

If you have to download it in multiple extents to get the scale you want, you want tiles that are non-overlapping. Many of the polygonal features, like parks, use partial transparency to display a hillshade behind it. Any overlap will really stand out. I found some Python code to map the extent of a map and it ran, but did nothing. Not sure if I was doing it wrong, but I couldn't get it to work. Very similar code applied to a layout worked. If you activate the layout, the download map function is enabled. Here, I have downloaded the map for the current map extent and pan the map to the right/east by exactly the width of current extent to get non-overlapping extents.

# Activate the map frame in the layout you will use. # Save vector tiles for current extent before running this. aprx=arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject("CURRENT") lyt = aprx.listLayouts('VTPK download and clipping')[0] mf = lyt.listElements("mapframe_element", 'VTPK download and clipping')[0] extent = mf.camera.getExtent() width = extent.XMax - extent.XMin extent2 = arcpy.Extent(XMin = (extent.XMin + width), YMin = extent.YMin, XMax = (extent.XMax + width), YMax = extent.YMax, spatial_reference = extent.spatialReference) mf.camera.setExtent(extent2) # Now save the vector tiles for the new extent

As far as I could zoom in on screen, everything seamed together perfectly.