Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration

Map documents

I've seen quite a few map services over the years, and there are a few golden rules you do not want to break.

Scale dependencies are one of the most important and easily implemented performance and usability settings that can be implemented on a map service. Scale dependencies are rules set on layers in the map document that determine at what scales layers will and will not draw. Do users need to see parcels at a 100,000 scale? Absolutely not, but they do need to see county boundaries, for instance. At a 24,000 scale, do they need to see address points? Probably not, but they do need to be able to see parcels. Drawing unnecessary layers, such as address points, at the wrong scale can be a huge performance hit that will do nothing ...