Creating MAPS using IOS SDK

[JosephPablo]

Hi I am fairly new to ArcGIS for IOS.  From looking at the "Getting Started" section and playing with the examples posted up on GIT it appears that the only way for me to process Map data is through ArcGIS Desktop (i.e. creating a Service, creating Tile Cache Package .TPK etc.). 

What we are trying to do is use ArcGIS IOS SDK and create a map without having to go through all the pre-processing with ArcGIS Desktop.  We are also not going to use ArcGIS Server.  The app we are creating is going to be offline and will be using map data stored locally. 

With that said,  is it possible to do that with only ArcGIS IOS SDK?  We are using raster data from NGA (i.e. CADRG, CIG, ECRG, DTED etc.).  

Thanks for your help.

[Anonymous User]

Joseph,

Welcome to the wonderful world of maps. You have more options to create your maps and consume them with the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for iOS. You can use the cloud that store your maps there, then the SDK will be able to consume them and take them offline.

I would start by creating a free developer account Sign Up | ArcGIS for Developers then will give you access to design your map and publish to ArcGIS Online (the cloud) .

To answer your second question and staying in the ArcGI Online http://arcgis.com, we don't support adding images, like png, directly to the web map. We do support adding images to "My Content" if you have a subscription, however, these images aren't georeferenced, but rather a picture. The only way to display image data in the web map is to create a web service from arcgis server at this time.

Hope this helps

Cheers

Al

[YueWu1]

Hello Joseph,

Welcome to the iOS SDK world. To add a little more on Al's reply. There is basically two ways to create ArcGIS Runtime offline map, either Services pattern or Desktop pattern. For more information, please check this link: https://developers.arcgis.com/ios/objective-c/guide/create-an-offline-map.htm‌

Since you mentioned that the ArcGIS Server and ArcMap are not the primary option, you can still use a trial version of ArcGIS Online as Al described to test about the offline function.

Hope this tips help.

Best Regards,