Back in 2023 I posted this question related to accessing a map base layer provided by our provincial government https://georeference.org/forum/t161998.8#162001

The source is here https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/bc-basemap/resource/8c7d2620-50fe-4180-ac6f-03edefa27b06

At that time Adam indicated that M9 did not support VectorTileServer format of ArcGIS REST.

With the advent of v. 9.0.182.1 I tried it again and I see no visible data. Can someone give that data source a try to see if I'm doing something incorrectly please? Having access to that basemap would be so nice.

Another page with information on that data source. https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=bbe05270d3a642f5b62203d6c454f457

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Thanks Dimitri. I submitted a suggestion to support vectortile format from ArcGIS REST servers in 2023.

The government of British Columbia provides a standard base map using ArcGIS REST in vectortile format (if I'm using the terminology correctly). However, I don't see vectorfile format listed among the three supported formats: FeatureServer, ImageServer, and MapServer. With M9 I'm unable to produce maps using the standard base map.

https://manifold.net/doc/mfd9/arcgis_rest_servers.htm#:~:text=support%20those%20types%20that%20are%20used%20most%20often%3A%20FeatureServer%2C%20ImageServer%2C%20and%20MapServer

Perhaps other M9 users in BC can also submit suggestions to Sales.

I also submitted a suggestion to sales for vector tile server support for ArcGIS in 2023.

ESRI have announced that Vector Tile Basemaps are to become the primary version of basemaps... In 2020 Esri made the following announcement:

Esri is starting preparations for the future where vector tile basemaps will be the primary version of basemaps available to users in webmaps and apps. Esri vector basemaps have multiple advantages over their raster equivalents in terms of their size, their draw time performance, the ability to generate and update content quickly, and the ability for everyone to make the appearance suitable for their purposes. Esri recognizes that the community will need time and support to migrate their webmaps and apps to use a vector tile basemap service instead of a raster basemap service, and this migration will occur over a suitable period of time.

https://developers.arcgis.com/documentation/mapping-apis-and-services/data-hosting/services/vector-tile-service/

Can this happen? I have read it is an open standard -- it seems overdue to me.

Thanks jsperr for having submitted a suggestion to Sales as well and for the info re: standard for basemaps.

Currently I'm at a disadvantage in my map products for clients compared to what other firms produce that use Esri products or other groups using QGIS, I use Google maps satellite as my basemap but have to manually add place names whereas the provincial government's basemaps have names of creeks, bays, roads already baked in that are visible on not visible dynamically depending on the zoom level. I don't have the aesthetics of hillshading that is in the government basemap either. In my work-around, I have a Table of place names with a field named "visible" in which I need to keep changing entries to "Yes" or "No" then format based text colors if I zoom in or out, it's extra work for each zoom level. Granted, "Copy to Selection" in table makes things faster but if I need to do re-work and change zoom levels, I need to manually select what labels I want visible. I could do the analysis in M9 then produce the final map in QGIS but I'm trying to stay entirely in M9.

have a Table of place names with a field named "visible" in which I need to keep changing entries to "Yes" or "No" then format based text colors if I zoom in or out, it's extra work for each zoom level. Granted, "Copy to Selection" in table makes things faster but if I need to do re-work and change zoom levels, I need to manually select what labels I want visible

There might be faster and easier ways of doing the above. For example, you could download a data set, like OSM, that has the names of creeks, bays, and roads already baked in that have zoom levels as attributes. OSM often uses government sources. You then set visibility by that attribute and you're done, with the labels popping on and off automatically. Are you sure the OSM data doesn't use the same original data as what the government basemap publishes?