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.
For information about Spectrum content security policies, which require that the Web Mapping Service HTTP request must use the same host name that is set in the Mapping service configuration, see Content Security Policies.
To view the Mapping Service settings, on the main menu of Spectrum Spatial Manager, select Services and then Mapping. You can edit the contents of the fields to configure the Mapping Service settings:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| 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.