Best way to save a tilelayer locally for offline use?

[chrishamilton4]

Hi,

Please let me know if it's possible to save data from an online tile layer such as

new ArcGISTiledMapServiceLayer(
       "http://services.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Topo_Map/MapServer")

Into a local file or cache that you can then use to load the tiles offline?

I know you can load tiles from a .tpk file using the local tile object.  Is this the only way?  Is there a way to cache some extents of an online source into one of these .tpk files?

Thanks in advance for any help you guys can provide!

[AndyGup]

Chris,

For v10.1.1 there is not a documented way to do this. Coming in 10.2 is full offline support. You might take a look at these articles although they are a bit dated:

http://datamoil.blogspot.com/2011/06/offline-tiled-layer-with-arcgis-for.html

http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/7567/solution-for-android-map-app-with-offline-use

-Andy