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Creating State Plane Basemaps for Field Maps

Ryan Lowman
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  • Open a new ArcGIS Pro project
  • Set Tags, Summary, and Description for the map
    • Right Click on “Map” in the Contents pane
    • Metadata
    • Provide information for the Tags, Summary, and Description boxes
    • Click OK
  • Make sure the map coordinate system is set to the desired State Plane coordinate system
    • Consult https://geodesy.noaa.gov/SPCS/maps.shtml for US State Plane Coordinate Systems
    • Right click on “Map” in the “Contents” pane
    • Properties
    • Coordinate Systems
    • Search for your desired State Plane Zone
      • Make sure it is a NAD 1983 (2011) system
    • Click OK
  • Pull USA State Plane Zones layer into ArcGIS Pro
    • Add Data
    • Browse
    • Navigate to where you saved the USA State Plane Zones layer
    • Click OK
  • Select or definition query your desired Zone
  • Export your selected/queried Zone into a new layer
    • Right click on State Plane Zones NAD 1983
    • Data
    • Export Features
    • Under “Output Feature Class”, choose a name and where you want to save the new feature class
    • Click OK
  • Project your new layer into the proper State Plane coordinate system
    • Click on the “Analysis” tab at the top of the screen
    • Click on the Red Toolbox
      • This will open the Geoprocessing pane
    • Search for the ”Project” tool
    • Click on “Project (Data Management Tools)”
      • Input Dataset or Feature Class: the exported State Plane zone you just created
      • Output Dataset or Feature Class: name and choose where you want to save the newly projected State Plane zone
      • Output Coordinate System: Current Map [Map]
        • This will set the new layer’s coordinate system to the same system as the map
        • We set the map coordinate system to the desired State Plane coordinate system earlier
      • Geographic Transformation: this will populate automatically
      • Preserve Shape: Unchecked
      • Click Run
    • The newly projected layer will appear in your map and Contents pane 
  • Use the Create Vector Tile Package tool
    • Click on the Back Arrow in the Geoprocessing pane
    • Search for ”Create Vector Tile Package” in the Geoprocessing pane
    • Click on “Create Vector Tile Package (Data Management Tools)”
      • Input Map: Map
      • Output File: name and choose where you want to save the new tile package file
      • Package for ArGIS Online | Bing Maps | Google Maps: Unchecked
      • Tiling Scheme: the tiling scheme will be created automatically when you uncheck the above box
      • Tiling Format: Indexed
      • Minimum Cached Scale: Default
      • Maximum Cached Scale: Default
      • Index Polygons: None
      • Summary: Include a summary of the file and its uses
      • Tags: Include whatever tags you want to help find this file later
      • Click Run
    • Your new Vector Tile Package should be saved in the location you specified in Output File
    • Save your ArcGIS Pro project
  • Upload created tile package to ArcGIS Online
    • Open a web browser and navigate to ArcGIS Online
    • Sign in to your organization’s ArcGIS Online account
    • Click on the “Content” tab at the top of the screen
    • Click on the “New Item” button near the top left of the screen, under the “Content” banner
    • Click on the “Your Device” button
    • Navigate to where you saved the Vector Tile Package you created in the previous step
    • Click on the Vector Tile Package File, and click Open
    • Select the “Add file and create a hosted tile layer” option and click Next
    • Provide a Title, select a Folder, add Categories, Tags, a Summary, and click Save
  • Create new Web Map
    • Click on the “Map” tab at the top of the screen
    • Remove any layers that may already be in the web map
  • Set created tile package as Basemap of created web map
    • Click on the “Basemap” icon on the left side of the screen
    • Click on the “Current basemap” button near the top left of the screen
    • Click on the “Add” button
    • Find the Tile Layer you uploaded in the previous step
    • Click on the Tile Layer
      • DO NOT click on the “Add” button on the Tile Layer
    • In the popup menu, click on the “Use as basemap” button at the bottom of the menu
    • Click on the Back arrow at the top of the “Add layer” menu
      • You will now see your Tile Layer in the “Base” section of the Basemap menu
  • Save the web map
    • Click on the “Save and open” icon on the left side of the screen
    • Click “Save As”
    • Fill in the required information and click “Save”
  • Add imagery layer as a normal layer in the web map
    • Click on the “Layers” icon on the left side of the screen
    • Click on the “My Content” button
    • Click on “Living Atlas”
    • Search for “World Imagery”
    • Click the “Add” button
      • NOTE: The imagery layer will take some time to load
  • Save the web map
  • Open web map in Field Maps
  • Collect points in the State Plane coordinate system

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