Collector for ArcGISPaul Barker and Russ Roberts

Agenda

• A quick look at the mobile landscape• ArcGIS the platform• Looking at the problem• What is Collector for ArcGIS• Demo• Quick tips• What’s next?• Questions and discussion

Mobile Landscape

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• Smartphone and tablet use continue to rise in the enterprise and consumer world

• Over 1.3B smartphones shipped in 2014• Enterprises continue to evaluate and

grow BYOD programs• Tablet growth in 2014 showed some

slowing• 720,000 android wear devices (smart

watches) shipped last year

Mobile Landscape

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• Collector for ArcGIS on Android runs on 6197 devices • Additional sensors on devices (internal and external) continue to grow and be

explored• E.g. external gps, depth/distance camera, finger print sensors,barcode scanners

Source: www.trinda.net

• Identify the level of ruggedness required• Decide on the size• Software requirements

- Off the shelf, custom, etc.

• Do you have IT restrictions • Choose a platform• Do a pilot project before scaling up• Cheap is tempting but not always the right

choice

How do I pick a device?

Knowledge Workers

Apps

Casual Users

Web GISDesktop

GIS Professional

Developers

Web GIS Extends GISAcross OrganizationsThroughout Communities

Open Data Community

Providing Mapping, Analysis, Data Management, and Collaboration

Available on the Open Web . . .. . . and On-Premises

Desktop Web Device

Server Online Content and Services

Portal

Web GIS Extends GISAcross OrganizationsThroughout Communities

Immediately Deployable and Easily Configured

Included as Part of Online, Server, and DesktopGIS Apps

Templates

Story MapsCollectorExplorer

Web Scene Viewer

Dashboard

Open Data

Maps for Office

GeoPlannerCrowdsourcing

Looking at the problem

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Organizations need a easy way to build or maintain a GIS of authoritative data• Some of that data is collected from scratch in the field• Some of that data comes from other sources (surveying, photogrammetry, digitizing)

- That data needs to be validated by ground truthing

• Some of that data may already exist and simply needs to be assessed and updated- Condition of assets

• In the “past” this was done with notebooks, clipboards, and maps- Can be error prone, and slow down the turn around time to make that data accessible and

useful to your organization

Collector for ArcGIS

• Mobile app targets field data collection needs

• Collect and update data- Using your location or the map- Fill out forms- Capture media (pictures, videos)- Additional tools to help your field workforce

• Types of use- Collect asset locations and status- Ground-truth their GIS data- Make observations/conduct surveys- Replace paper-based forms/process

What can you do ?

• Open maps shared to you for data collection

• Collect and update features

• Copy features to save time

• Measure lengths and area

• Get directions

• Switch between basemaps

• Search features and places

• Record where you went

Publishing data

Desktop

Templates

Publish to your Server in the Cloud

or On PremiseAdd layers to maps

and share

• Offline data needs to have sync enabled- You can also disable editing at the webmap level if you have layers for read only

access just for that map

• Tips: leverage domains, subtypes, default values, scale ranges etc.• Choose symbology for the end user

Making the map

Add your layers to your map Configure the map:

forms, symbology, tools Share to your field users

• Only show the fields that the end user needs• Turn off tools the user wont use to do their job (measure, basemap etc)• Use scale dependency to hide read only layers till they’re needed• Side load basemaps to device to save time

DemoRuss Roberts

Quick tipsPaul Barker

Set good defaultsTake advantage of min-max rangesUse domains to prevent typos

- Use subtypes to enforce data integrity across types

Watch out for reserved words across database formatsUse attachments for photosSplit your layers into logical groupings

Let the geodatabase do the work for you

What works at your desk or on paper doesn’t always work outside in the sun and on small devices

Avoid pastels and fine grained color ramps

Shy away from intricate symbology

Choose symbols that are visually distinct across all your layers.

Thoughtful Symbology

• Most common reasons for sync to fail- Network timeout or interruption

- We are building a dedicated tool to offload and manually sync data from your laptop/desktop- Desktop 10.3 has a recovery option that will take your offline gdb and convert it to a filegdb

- Disabling attachments in ArcGIS Online FS after publishing - Known issue, currently planned for summer (work around re-enable attachments on the FS)

• Improvements this release to sync- There have been a number of improvements this release to improve stability when

syncing in ArcGIS Online

When sync fails

What’s next ? Paul Barker

Whats next?

• More tools for planning field work (pre-planned)- Prepare your data in advance- Pre package multiple areas

• Smarter data collection forms- Auto field population- Inherited attributes

• Integration of more sensors

• Full support for ownership based access

• High Accuracy

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