Publish tile layer to be used as layer, not basemap

[abrown8]

Hi all

I am wanting to publish a PNG image as a tile layer to be used in a map but not as a basemap, I want to keep the Topographic basemap and switch the PNG tile visibility on/off. Ideally without consuming any credits.

From ArcGIS Pro I have tried publishing the image as a Tile Layer with caching locally but when I add the tile to the Map Viewer in AGOL the only option is to have it as a basemap. The tile package is fairly small size (45mb with levels of detail street to county)

Is there something that I am doing wrong or an alternative  process I'm not aware of?

Thank you!

[RhettZufelt]

In Map Viewer, make sure you select the Layers icon, then select Add:

Once you find the published tile layer, you can click the + Add button:

which should add it as a data layer, not a basemap.

Or, you can click on the tile layer itself and choose where to add it:

This will add it to the layers and can be moved above/below other layers, and toggled on/off:

R_

[KevinFreibergerJA]

@abrown8 I am experiencing the same issue. My Tile Layer is defaulting to the basemap even though I simply click "Add to map" and not "Use as basemap".

[abrown8]

@KevinFreibergerJA I did manage in the end, I think it was when publishing from ArcPro to check what the coordinate system of the raster is and ensuring that you set the tiling mechanism to ArcGIS Online.

[David_Murphy]

I'm having the same issue.  I reprojected the raster layer to EPSG 3857 to match ArcGIS Online, but the layer only gets used as a basemap.  If I have a basemap open, then add my raster to map, not as a basemap, the basemap disappears, and I actually lose all basemap options to add.  

[EllieLinden]

This is happening to me as well, even though I'm following the same workflow of adding a Tile Layer I used a month ago where it worked fine, it's now adding it as a Basemap. I've tried different combinations of how to add a layer to a web map, but am wondering if this may be a bug. 

[SarahHall3]

This is also happening to me, has anyone found a solution? 

[CSchwartz614]

I am currently experiencing the same problem. Any solutions or workarounds as of November 2024?

[RhettZufelt]

Solution is to not mix coordinate systems.  The basemap of the web map sets the coordinate system.

If you are adding Tile layers in the same coordinate system, then my post above is still working.

Otherwise, not sure there is a solution.  One of the reasons I don't mix CS's.

R_

[mforsyth]

I think the issue for some might be even if you have everything set to the AGOL default WGS 84 Web Mercator, you still need to go into the settings before uploading to AGOL and set the tiling scheme to AGOL/Bing/Google. We found that even though our raster was using WGS 84 Web Mercator like AGOL wants, the tiling scheme when uploading was defaulting to our map frame which was in our local state plane. Even if your map frame was in WGS 84, I would still recommend you change the tiling scheme to the the AGOL/Bing/Google scheme to make sure everything is using WGS 84 Web Mercator.