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!

[FloraTiley]

Hello! I just had this problem and tried a few different things to no avail.

What has seemed to work in the end is sharing the raster layer as a Web Tile layer and then on the Configuration settings, ensuring that ArcGIS Online Bing Maps / Google Maps is selected.

[DebapriyaPaul]

Hi @abrown8 , thank you for posting this question. Great suggestion by @FloraTiley. Using the same tiling scheme as ArcGIS Online basemaps would allow us to add the tile layer as an operational layer in the map. 

Additionally, if we want to visually overlay an image in a web map and have control over enabling or disabling the visibility, we could also use the Add media layer workflow. 

Hope this helps!