topic Best Pratice for Creating Cached Basemap Imagery in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/best-pratice-for-creating-cached-basemap-imagery/m-p/464530#M26551 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm working with several thousand raster files in MrSID format for an entire county that are seperated by township . My end goal is to create a cached basemap in ArcGIS Server of the imagery. Can you reccomend best methods?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Mosaic tool is crashing.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Raster Catalog works but I've read source files should be converted to Tiff or Jpeg first. Is there a way to batch export? Also there is a big difference in image resolution when i convert a few? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Mosaic Dataset works but only viewable at a scale up to 1:10,000? Otherwise I only see the</SPAN><BR /><SPAN> outlines? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Best,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Ryan</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:16:40 GMT RyanEckdale-Dudley 2011-08-03T17:16:40Z Best Pratice for Creating Cached Basemap Imagery https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/best-pratice-for-creating-cached-basemap-imagery/m-p/464530#M26551 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm working with several thousand raster files in MrSID format for an entire county that are seperated by township . My end goal is to create a cached basemap in ArcGIS Server of the imagery. Can you reccomend best methods?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Mosaic tool is crashing.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Raster Catalog works but I've read source files should be converted to Tiff or Jpeg first. Is there a way to batch export? Also there is a big difference in image resolution when i convert a few? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Mosaic Dataset works but only viewable at a scale up to 1:10,000? Otherwise I only see the</SPAN><BR /><SPAN> outlines? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Best,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Ryan</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:16:40 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/best-pratice-for-creating-cached-basemap-imagery/m-p/464530#M26551 RyanEckdale-Dudley 2011-08-03T17:16:40Z Re: Best Pratice for Creating Cached Basemap Imagery https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/best-pratice-for-creating-cached-basemap-imagery/m-p/464531#M26552 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>A mosaic dataset would be the best option.&nbsp; You&nbsp; may not see the mosaic dataset at smaller scales because </SPAN><A href="http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//009t00000040000000">Overviews</A><SPAN> are not built.&nbsp; To build overviews right-click on the mosaic dataset in ArcCatalog &gt; Build Overviews.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:52:11 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/best-pratice-for-creating-cached-basemap-imagery/m-p/464531#M26552 JakeSkinner 2011-08-04T11:52:11Z