What is the purpose of the map service associated with a feature service?

[VenusScott]

Probably a silly question, but what purpose is the map service that is generated with the feature service?

I ask this because the only reason I create a feature service is for editing purposes. When I lock the feature service, it locks the associated map service. If I want to create a publicly viewable map, I can not use the map service associated with the feature service as it is locked. I have to create a separate but similarly named map service:

So now my system resources has three processes taxing it as opposed to just two. What am I missing here?

[AdrianWelsh]

I feel like a lot of people have this same issue and there hasn't been a good solution to this just yet. I am hoping Esri sees the value in this and will make changes to it soon but who knows what will happen. I am also hoping that I am wrong and there is something easily fixed here too!

[RichardsonAluvilayil2 · Accepted solution]

Hi Venus,

One reason is that Feature service does not display labels, hence we can use the underlying map service in our web apps to display the labels.

Regards,

Richardson

[VenusScott]

Ah! Good to know!

Thank you!