How to create tile images for tiled map using ArcGIS Online?

[ronykooskow]

I am a newbie to ArcGIS Online. I have to create a temperature tile map based on my own custom data. I have found that a tile layer can be added using the below link:

http://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-online/reference/tile-layers.htm

Adding a new tile layer uses a service request like (http://{subDomain}.tile.opencyclemap.org/cycle/{level}/{col}/{row}.png) to get specific images from service for specific zoom levels, the question is how and where these images will be created based on our own data?

Is there any tool that creates such images for storage purpose and later to utilize using service call?

Can we create these images dynamically at run time based on our own data and how?

We want to create the end product like http://maps.google.com/gallery/details?id=zttWLnOPAlrs.kQBKSYw5ok5U&hl=en

Thanks in advance, your urgent help will be highly appreciated.

- Rony.

[ronykooskow]

Dear Jake,

We have gone through the documentation of ArcGIS for server. We are interested in buying this tool. We are professional developers and need to implement tiled maps in one of our projects.

But we have some concerns:

Using ArcGIS for server can we automate the process of tile cache creation from NetCDF files?

i.e.

1. Raster Layer Creation from NetCDF,
2. Tile Cache Creation From raster layer,
3. tile packaging,
4. publishing it to the service
5. and using the service in our layer.

And repeat this process to update tiles after every 6 hours ?

How ?

[JakeSkinner]

Yes, you would need to publish the raster layer as a cached map service to ArcGIS for Server.  Once the raster layer is updated, you can create a python script to execute the Manage Map Server Cache Tiles to update the cache.  You can then use Windows Task Scheduler to execute the script at a prescribed time.

[ronykooskow]

Thanks for your quick reply Jake. We have a thousand NetCDF files and we cannot manually create tile packages and publish on the server. Is there a possible way to automate the whole process in a good manner?

[JakeSkinner]

Yes, you can use modelbuilder and/or python to automate publish the data to ArcGIS for Server and create/update the cache.

[mettegreve]

We are trying to do something similar, could anyone provide us with a working example of doing this? Programmatically (python) create tile layers and publish these ArcGIS online. We are having zoom and visibility issues. Depending on how we do it we either have no visual layer at all or loose it when zooming out.

TIA,

Mette