Issues with publishing vector tile layer to ArcGIS Enterprise

[wizgis]

I attempted to publish a point feature class from an enterprise geodatabase as a vector tile service using the referenced registered data option in ArcGIS Pro 3.5 to ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5, applying the ArcGIS Online tiling scheme. However, the publishing process initially failed.

Upon further investigation, I noticed that the data was in the WGS 1984 coordinate system. After using the Project tool to convert the data to WGS 1984 Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere, I retried publishing using this updated feature class, and the process completed successfully.

Based on this, I would like to understand whether it is mandatory for the feature class to be in the Web Mercator projection for vector tile publishing, or if there are any alternative approaches that would allow publishing without requiring this reprojection.

[RyanUthoff]

I am also using Pro 3.5 and Enterprise 11.5 and in my experience, it is not mandatory for the projection to be Web Mercator. Just to make sure, I validated this just now.

I was able to successfully publish a referenced vector tile layer where the underlying data is in three different projections (WGS 1984, Web Mercator, and my state's local coordinate system), and all three published fine for me.

I'm not sure what went wrong in your specific case, but in general, it is not mandatory for the underlying data to be in Web Mercator.

[wizgis]

@RyanUthoff 

Thank you for testing this at your end. Just wanted to confirm in all three cases tiling scheme used was ArcGIS Online tiling scheme or was it changed and was your data also in enterprise geodatabase. 

[RyanUthoff]

Ahh, that's a good catch. I didn't think to check that. I kept the default tiling scheme, which was "Auto-suggest." So I'm not sure what it actually chose when I originally published it.

With that being said, I tried again just now with WGS 1984 and my local projection and it still published fine when I set it to ArcGIS Online tiling scheme.

Yes, my data is coming from an EGDB.

[wizgis]

 @RyanUthoff Thank you testing and sharing your observations

[DavidColey]

I can confirm that I too can publish a vector tile package that uses a state plane coordinate system and the ArcGIS Online tiling scheme.  I overwrite one every week for our State Plane basemap tile. Currently I am in ArcGIS Pro 3.7, Enterprise 12.0. 

For tlpk (like an old map tile package or a tiled image layer), that is still not the case.  I cannot use our state plane coordinate system and the ArcGIS Online tiling scheme together. 

[wizgis]

@DavidColey Thank you for letting me know this.