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Vector tiles
Is a set of web-accessible tiles and the corresponding style for how those tiles should be drawn. Vector tiles are similar to image tiles, but they store a vector representation of the data.
Table of contents
- Showcase
- Training
- Resources
- Utils
- People you should know
- News
- Tools
- Additional resources
- Localized resources
- Third party acknowledgements
Showcase
Training
- Tutorial: Modify Vector Tile Styles to Illustrate Earthquakes
- Tutorial for creating a map and publishing it as a vector basemap: The Design and Publish Basemaps
- Vector tiles resources at esri.com/training
- Create Vector Tile Package using ArcGIS Pro
- Publish Vector Tile Package in ArcGIS Online
- Vector Tile Service documentation
- Esri Vector Basemaps Reference Document
- Using non-basemap vector tiles (JavaScript API)
- Design custom basemaps with the new ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor
Videos
Event | Title | Length |
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DevSummit 2019 | Caching Maps and Vector Tile Layers: Best Practices | 58min 33secs |
None 2019 | Styling Vector Tiles | 7min 43secs |
UC 2018 | Desktop Mapping: Creating Vector Tiles | 1h 19min 12secs |
DevSummit 2018 | Bringing Your Data to Life in the ArcGIS API for JavaScript: Vector Tiles | 1h 1min 48secs |
UC 2017 | Esri UC 2017: Vector Tile Basemaps—DYK? | 2min 30secs |
UC 2017 | Desktop Mapping: Creating Vector Tiles | 1h 19min 12secs |
DevSummit 2017 | Bringing Your Data to Life in ArcGIS API for JavaScript: Vector Tiles | 1h 2min 42secs |
DevSummit 2016 | Vector Tiles in the ArcGIS Platform | 1h 1min 30secs |
UC 2016 | Content: Vector Tiles: Styling Your Own Base Maps | 56min 49secs |
UC 2016 | Mapping: Desktop Mapping: Creating Vector Tiles | 1h 15min 45secs |
Resources
Utils
- ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor: A simple Vector Tile Style Editor to update the styles of Esri Vector Basemaps
- Vector Basemap Style Editor: Edit the styles of Esri Vector Basemaps ArcGIS online items
- mapstyler: Style an Esri vector tile layer style using an image or colour palette
People you should know
Please find the ArcGIS Experts on this topic here: https://esri-es.github.io/arcgis-experts/?topic=Vector%20Tiles
They don't work on the support team and some may even not work at Esri, but they are opening some projects and sharing insights related to this technology so we recommend you to follow them.
News
Additional search engines for news: esri.com/search
Tools
Additional resources
Probably not all the resources are in this list, please use the ArcGIS Search tool looking for: "vector tiles".
Localized resources
Spanish
- Introducción a los mapas vectoriales de ArcGIS
- Personalizar mapas vectoriales y consumirlos con AngularJS: Vídeo & Tutorial
Third party acknowledgements
Esri Third Party OSS/FOSS Software Acknowledgments.
Esri vector tiles uses or had used, Earcut, mapbox-gl-native, mapbox-gl-style-spec, Mapbox vector-style-spec & Node-sqlite3.