Managing the Mapping Service Configuration

The Mapping Service provides a simplified interface to perform Mapping Service rendering, themes, overlays, and conversions. It provides both simple operations that are more frequently used, or more complex operations that require higher levels of customization. The Mapping Service is configured and managed using Spectrum Spatial™ Manager. For more information, see Mapping Service in the Services section of the Spectrum Spatial Guide.

To view the Mapping Service settings, select Services > Mapping in Spectrum Spatial™ Manager. From the Settings page, click Edit to configure the Mapping Service settings:

Image directory

The temporary cache directory for map images used during SOAP requests for the Mapping Service, when returnImage is set to false in the request. (You must have access rights to this directory).

Important: If you change this setting to use an image directory that already contains files or directories, be aware that those files and directories will be deleted due to the nature of cache directories.

Access Base URL

The URL location for the image directory, typically http://hostname:port/rest/Spatial/MappingService/internal/imageCache. This allows map images to be retrieved using HTTP GET.

Expire images after

Time (in seconds) to wait until the image file is tagged for deletion from the cache.

Scan image directory for expired images every

The interval (in seconds) that the service scans the image cache for expiring images.

Any changes you make to the Mapping Service configuration are automatically loaded.