I want to be able to style the data, etc in Pro but I need to access 3rd party vector tile servers outside of AGOL or Portal.

[BlairDeaver3]

There are tons of Vector Tile sources available in the wild but it appears that I can only access Vector Tiles that are hosted on AGOL/Portal.  Is this true?  Please provide support for the Mapbox Vector Tile spec in ArcGIS Pro.  There is already GDAL driver support: MVT: Mapbox Vector Tiles 

Thank you!

[KoryKramer]

Can you share details about how you're trying to add vector tiles to your map in Pro?  Is the expectation to go to Add data from path:

How do you plan to use the vector tiles in Pro?

In the above image I added Mapbox basemaps to ArcGIS Online webmaps and am using those in Pro.

[BlairDeaver3]

Thanks Kory.  Let me give this a go via the URI path option.  I was not aware of that route.

[KoryKramer]

Wait - that was a question on the Pro side:)  What you would do is get the URL from the Mapbox site for Third Party > ArcGIS Online and follow the instructions:

In an ArcGIS Online map Add > Add Layer from Web > A Tile Layer and use the URL you got from Mapbox.

Save the webmap and use it in Pro.

[BlairDeaver3]

Hi Kory,

Thanks for the reply.  The above option you noted is how to add an existing MapBox map to either Pro or AGOL as an image tiled layer and not a vector tile layer.  I am trying to find out how I can directly stream in 3rd party vector tiles directly into Pro.  My use case is that I want to be able to style the data, etc in Pro but I need to access 3rd party vector tile servers outside of AGOL or Portal.  Thanks.

Cheers,
Blair

[KoryKramer]

Thanks for the clarification, Blair.  Could you please update the Idea's title and description to make the requirement clear?  "My use case is that I want to be able to style the data, etc in Pro but I need to access 3rd party vector tile servers outside of AGOL or Portal."

Thank you. 

I'm sure you've already seen this, but maybe for others who stumble upon this thread: Design custom basemaps with the new ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor 

[HoustonCo]

This integration would be very good to have!

[BruceHarold]

Hi, I don't know if this fits with your needs but you can import MVT data with a script tool, here is the source from an example.  In my case the MVT data is on disk but it looks like the driver supports a service.  Note also in my case the tiles have the extension '.mvt' and not '.pbf' so you can edit that setting.

#  MVTImporter.py - Import mapBox vector tiles to GeoPackage
#  coding: utf-8
#  For ogr methods see: https://gdal.org/python/ and surf the osgeo.ogr module


import arcpy
import os
from osgeo import ogr

arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True


#  Get zoom level folder
zoomFolder = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)


#  Copy each layer to a new GeoPackage
level = os.path.basename(zoomFolder)
outgpkgPath = os.path.join(zoomFolder,
                          'ZoomLevel{}.gpkg'.format(level))
srcName = 'ZoomLevel{}GPKG'.format(level)
mvtDriver = ogr.GetDriverByName('MVT')
mvtDriver.SetMetadataItem('TILE_EXTENSION','mvt')
mvtDataSource = mvtDriver.Open(zoomFolder)
gpkgDriver = ogr.GetDriverByName('GPKG')
gpkgDataSource=gpkgDriver.CreateDataSource(outgpkgPath)
for i in range(mvtDataSource.GetLayerCount()):
    name = mvtDataSource.GetLayerByIndex(i).GetName()
    arcpy.AddMessage('Copying layer {}'.format(name))
    gpkgDataSource.CopyLayer(mvtDataSource.GetLayer(name),
                             name,
                             ['OVERWRITE=YES'])
    gpkgDataSource.FlushCache()
    gpkgDataSource.SyncToDisk()
gpkgDataSource.Destroy()
mvtDataSource.Destroy()

#  Set output parameter
arcpy.SetParameter(1,outgpkgPath)
arcpy.AddMessage('Done')‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍