topic Re: Transperant Base/Tiled Map Layer, without opacity setting to 0. in ArcGIS Runtime SDK for iOS Questions

Transperant Base/Tiled Map Layer, without opacity setting to 0.

PritiBose — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 19:30:35 GMT

Hello Everyone,

I need very quick answer as i am really in big issue. my iPad app released yesterday where by mistake i added Base Map layer which should not be case of some of my client.

base map URL i get from DB, so my question is, Is there any Transperant Base MAP/ Tiled MAP URL i can use.

(i can not change code as i need quick fix by making opacity 0 or anything, changing code i have to get my App approval will taken another 10 days) .

Please do help me out if anything is available. i wanted URL of base MAP which act like transparent Layer like by default Opacity 0 some thing.

so that Client will not be able to see Base MAP.

Please help me out ...its very urgent

Re: Transperant Base/Tiled Map Layer, without opacity setting to 0.

JohnGravois — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 19:50:36 GMT

if you're asking about individual transparent tiles, check out the article below.

How To: Configure the cache folder to display a 'Data not available' tile for empty map cache areas or missing tiles

if you're asking whether anyone has created a real map service with cached tiles for the whole world that are all entirely transparent, i kinda doubt it.

Re: Transperant Base/Tiled Map Layer, without opacity setting to 0.

Nicholas-Furness — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 20:24:31 GMT

Try this: http://services.arcgis.com/OfH668nDRN7tbJh0/arcgis/rest/services/No_data_tiles/MapServer

I created this by signing in at developers.arcgis.com and creating a new layer at https://developers.arcgis.com/layers/#/new/

I created an empty point Feature Service with a single field and published that.

Then I clicked the "Open in ArcGIS Online" button to see the new Feature Service's item page, and from there clicked "Publish" a new Tile Layer. From there in the Manage Tiles panel I picked the `:147,914,382 scale to create just 20 or so tiles at a cost of about 0.06 credits total.

That generated the tile service link above. You can make use of that for a bit, but I recommend you create your own because I could easily delete that in a cleanup. Sounds like you won't need it for long. Do test that it works as you expect though - in my testing it seems to work, but I might have misunderstood what you want.

Hope that helps!

Nick.

Re: Transperant Base/Tiled Map Layer, without opacity setting to 0.

PritiBose — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 18:20:05 GMT

Hello,

Thank you so much for your help. it worked perfectly. i am using your created layer as of now.

i tried to create new layer as you had suggested, but however i am getting There was an error creating your layer .

could you please help me out here....

thank you,

Re: Transperant Base/Tiled Map Layer, without opacity setting to 0.

Nicholas-Furness — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 17:54:07 GMT

Hey Priti,

Glad it worked. Not sure where the process failed, so here's the whole thing, step-by-step: Creating a blank hosted tiled layer

Let me know how that goes.

Cheers,

Nick.

Re: Transperant Base/Tiled Map Layer, without opacity setting to 0.

PritiBose — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 10:46:38 GMT

Hello,

i created Blank Layer, you made it very simple.

however once i created i did tried to open on my client machine browser ,

it is asking me 'Token Required', i guess because of this Layers are not

getting loaded.

below is my Layer :

http://services7.arcgis.com/cjiXw9G7MdkRVS7b/ArcGIS/rest/services/Blank_Tiles/MapServer

May be i am missing some setting ?

Thx,

Re: Transperant Base/Tiled Map Layer, without opacity setting to 0.

Nicholas-Furness — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 13:43:10 GMT

You probably need to share the layer with everyone.