Imagine if all the published basemaps over the internet is not suit to your needs, what you can do?. The answer is simply, just make your own basemaps. And how to make them ? by convert the created map into raster tile package of course. From the created tile package, we can feed it off to map service provider like ArcGIS.com, Mapbox, etc, or just put it on your own server and webgis application/geoportal. Basemap can be authored using ArcGIS or QGIS (just to name the BIG TWO software these days). I am going to talk about ArcGIS first for this post. in ESRI ArcGIS environment, the tile package is called ArcGIS Tile Layer Package, and has *.tpk file extension. How to make them?, simply 1. Make your own map in ArcMap (symbolization, labelling, etc and save it on MXD. 2. Boot ArcToolbox, go to Data Management Tools > Packages > Create Map Tile Package 3. Set the tiling scheme (just use arcgis online/google tiling scheme), tiling format, level or details, tag, summary, ex
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