Latest Contributions by SteveLong1

There is a routine for transferring the spatial information from a feature to place it in a field. You have to create a field for Longitude and a field for latitude with the appropriate room to store the Geographic coordinates at the level of accuracy of you phone GPS. Then you can run the tool on that database attribute table. Not sure this can be done simultaneously ... View more

We also ran into this problem when taking thousands of photos of storm drain structures and pipes. We sometimes needed to know the direction the picture was taken and the date and time on the photo name. We used a DROPBOX APP on the IOS iPAD which was set to sync the pictures to dropbox whenever we had WIFI. The pictures were taken at the site (with Location info on) and the dropbox would load pictures to a shared folder back in the office (we could see pictures come in-in realtime from the field when WIFI was available (read McDonalds lunch). We would then copy into a network folder (The dropbox app renames the picture from standard IOS picture IMAGE# name to standardized date & time name (i.e. - 2017-01-12 09.51.18.jpg). This latter name allows dropbox to keep track of what pictures have already been synced, even from multiple iPADS accessing the same dropbox (very rarely are two pictures taken at the SAME second). We then use the Photos 2 Points tool in the ESRI ArcMAP toolbox to dreate a photo layer or multiple photo layers that contain ALL the EXIF info including the direction which can be map to a field in a Chevron Symbol to point the direction the photo was taken. the photo then come in close to the collected point but showing how in relation to the point /Structure they were taken ... View more

I just duplicated a post below, cause I agree with them all. We need this extended Geotagging info ... View more

We just discovered attribute assistant this past year. Buried in a Water network support package! After Seeing its potential, I can not for the life of me figure out why ESRI doesn't build it directly into the COTS software. What hundreds of wasted hours I had over the last three years Without it. We have lots of applications including filling in fields automatically from multiple grids in a point feature class as points are created. I'll post our table in the future. ... View more

How about some details on connecting high accuracy GPS to Collector via Bluetooth on the tablets (iPAD or ANdroid) ... View more

Russ See my above message. I made a Special group with the subject map in it. I can approve a membership request for the map for collector4GIS Right now it says it is unable to load "mcgbasemap" from gis3.montgomerycountymd.gov The basemap comes up fine on the web browser on the desktop. The map finally came up with our own Image service loaded (so we can zoom in closer) ... View more

Curt You want to create two maps. In the one map for public consumption you want to load only  MAPSERVICES as layers This is an un-editable service. That map is published on FB In the other map (for you to edit) you want to load the FEATURESERVICE or the FEATURE SERVICE & MAPSERVICE (Since feature services in v10.0 cannot handle the display capability for symbology that MAP SERVICES do) If you don't give out that link to the Feature Service map then no-one should be able to get in and edit it. If you're using AGO and have an account, you can also set the permissions on the map you create to NOT be for "everyone" and isolate the map to a group that is not "open" to even users with AGO accounts ... View more

Russ, I didn't understand your reply, but is the new version of collector out that will enable it not to crash on all maps Can we run 10.3 Collector on our 10.22 ArcGIS services ... View more

Russ I set up a Group called "ESRI-MCGOV AGOL Tech Support" and invited you My cohort here in DOT/DTE, Dan Higgins, is also a member I will put my maps there that are not working in collector and Exploror on the iPAD I am running Collector v10.2.7 build767 and Explorer v We also had another question. ..... Is there a way to "HIDE" the service paths and sources from showing in the "Details" page of the map? There are some services we are running open to "Everyone" so that our mobile consultant users and our inside survey crew can actually edit our database directly from the field. We DON'T however, want anyone but our consultants to edit. We haven't found  way to isolate an ESRI anonymous user from copying the source path to place the Feature services directly in their own map. We can control our WebMap and Web App access, but not the Feature and Mapservices access on the public server if someone actually has the path info to our public server ... View more

From below-Kylie Taken straight from the help: "Collector for ArcGIS focuses on data collection and provides a streamlined experience for working in the field, while the ArcGIS app focuses on general map use, query, and feature editing." For a bit more info, you can also look at the differences with the ArcGIS app and Explorer, and many of the same differences apply with the ArcGIS app and Collector: "ArcGIS for iOS and Android were the first native viewers of maps hosted in ArcGIS Online or Portal for ArcGIS. Explorer for ArcGIS is the modern, native experience for working with your organization's maps. As the ArcGIS system evolves, additional functionality will be brought into Explorer, while the ArcGIS for iOS and Android apps won't be updated with new features and functionality." ... View more

Kylie, Lately I have gotten back to working with these three apps. ARCGIS, Explorer, and Collector I notice recently that ALL my maps basically crash whenever I open them. I have NOT updated to iOS 8 as I haven't seen clear reports that the ESRI apps have been updated. We are using heavily loaded maps right now (7-14 features editable in each maps with probably 40+- layers in a storm drain map for Montgomery County MD) Any tips? Is iOS safe to operate the Apps The same maps open fine a month ago In the last month we have added v10.22 services  (we were only running v10.0 & 9.3 services before One last question, does the collector and Explorer app update ? ... View more