Share a tile layer

Tiles published to ArcGIS Online or an ArcGIS Enterprise portal support fast visualization of large datasets using a collection of predrawn tiles. Hosted tiles provide geographic context for operational layers.

Share your items

You have several options for sharing your items, depending on your sharing privileges:

• Your organization—Sharing with your organization means only members of your organization have access to your item.
• Groups to which you belong—If you are a member of a group, you can share your item with that group. Sharing with specific groups restricts access to a smaller, more focused set of people.
• Everyone—Sharing with everyone makes your item public; anyone who has access to the portal website or ArcGIS Online, including anonymous users, can find and use it, and group owners can include it in their group content.
• Everyone, your organization, and groups to which you belong—You can share your item with a larger audience (for example, everyone and your organization) and also share it with a specific group. This allows you to categorize your item as especially relevant to a particular group while still making it available to others in your organization.

Note:

This process creates and stores a tile package in your account. If sharing to an ArcGIS Online organizational account, service credits apply.

Publish your tile layer

To publish your layers as a tile service, complete the following steps:

1. On the Share tab, in the Share As group, click Tile Layer .
2. Check the layers that you want to publish as a tile layer. You can share the following layer types:
   • True Ortho
   • Orthomosaic
   • Digital Surface Model
   • Digital Terrain Model
   • DSM Shaded Relief
   • DTM Shaded Relief
   • Vegetation and Soil Indices
3. If adding to a web catalog, check the Add portal item to web catalog check box.

   A web catalog must exist for the project before layers can be added to it. A new web catalog can be created by clicking the Create new web catalog button . For more information on working with catalog datasets, see Use catalog datasets.

4. Click the Show Sharing Properties button . Here you can set the zoom levels for each of your selected tile layers.
Each increase in the level of detail increases the time to create the tile package and the size of the tile package.
5. Click the Show Sharing Details button to go back and give your tile layers a Title.
6. Optionally, for Folder, choose a folder to share your tile layers, provide a description in the Description field, and update the tags in the Tags field.
7. Check the appropriate groups for sharing your items.
8. Click Share.