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Feature services

Feature services allow you to serve feature data and nonspatial tables over the Internet or your intranet. This makes your data available for use in web clients, desktop apps, and field apps.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• ArcGIS Online
• ArcGIS Enterprise
• ArcGIS Online items
• Related resources

Introduction

Feature services are probably the most used ArcGIS service type. They can be prepare to work offline, support edition tracking, time-enable, versioning, etc.

It can be consume from any developer technology:

• ArcGIS JavaScript API - example (uses WebGL > GraphicLayer)
• Runtime SDK for Android - example
• ...

And also any other ArcGIS Product

ArcGIS Online

• 10 minutes tutorials: (hosted feature layer)
  • Import data
  • Create a new dataset
  • Explore layer data
  • Configure layers
• Documentation: Publish hosted feature layers

ArcGIS Enterprise

What is a feature service?

• Publish a feature service from ArcMap
• ArcGIS Pro Help > Share your work > Share a web layer > Web feature layer

ArcGIS Online items

Check some Feature Services share publicly in ArcGIS Online

Related resources

• Koop
• geoservices.github.io: An open source implementation of the GeoServices specification