C# custom layer

[riccardobecker]

Hi All,

I am new to Arcgis Online (to ArcGIs in general actually). I am looking for examples on how to create my own "datasource" of geographic information and add it as a layer to my arcgisonline instance. Currently, I do have some arbitrary webservice that returns geographical information concerning polygons etc.

How can I attach this one to my arcgisonline environment or what are the best steps to take? I want to build it using Visual Studio 2012 and deploy the "service" to Azure.

regards

[MikeMinami]

ArcGIS Online supports a number of layer types. You can find documentation about supported layers here:
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/arcgisonline/index.html#/Add_layers/010q0000009v000000/

As far as I know, you can't really create your own layer type and display it in a web map. It has to be one of the supported types. Now, there's a wide variety of types, that hopefully you can get your data into.

With a public account (free) you're limited to about 1000 features you can add. More than that, you will probably need to get a subscription, where you can make a web service of features. This is basically unlimited in storage of features, but clients will still have limits on what they can display at one time.

You can also check out some of our developer APIs here.

https://developers.arcgis.com/en/

Hope this helps,

Mike