When working in the field or in the office we often digitize feature on the screen in Field Maps. Its annoying when the marker keeps jumping to the GPS position. A simple (?) solution would be to be able to turn the GPS off.
/Clas
@DougMorgenthaler Thanks Doug, great feature add.
Cheers!
@BrendonJoyce1 yes, this should be available as part of ArcGIS Enterprise 11.
@DougMorgenthaler Hi Doug, unfortunately I am on Portal, I do see that setting in AGOL.
Would that be something I wouldn't get until my next Portal upgrade or will it come in an update sometime soon? (I'm on 10.9.1 now).
Thanks!
@BrendonJoyce1 in our December release of Field Maps we introduced a new map setting that you can use to determine whether the GPS location should be used automatically for collecting new features. Here's a doc topic that outlines how to configure this.
This is definitely an issue we run into. We have a misc points layer (non GPS) to use as reference and our users will collect or snap to features, creating a point immediately uses the phones location, which is often several miles away from the point/points they want to create.
These users also use GPS receivers so they are used to backing out of maps, profile, provider: Integrated or GNSS.
Our only workaround right now is to do the steps above, and take the provider from integrated to a GNSS receiver that isn't connected, but will block the location. This works sometimes, other times it blocks you from choosing it.
Having a map, layer or device setting for collection to toggle use target location default or something.
Agreed - the ability to turn location services on/off within the app would be good. Some people aren't even aware that they can do that through the device settings.
I believe you can get around this by turning off location services in your device settings. Although I agree it would be nice to be able to do so directly in the app.
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