Best way to Caputure Multiple photo location for survey points

DamianSmith

When capturing survey points in Survey 123 is there a way to capture individual photos geolocation attributes? We attempting to use Survey 123 for wildland fire fuels monitoring but would like to ensure that were apple to capture individual photo location data possibly without having to individually enter each location, not really practice. We have the main point but would like those photos georeference so it can potentially be pulled into a story map

IsmaelChivite

Hi. Here are some ideas:

• Outputting the X,Y coordinates from the EXIF of the photo as attributes. This is described in more detail in thehttps://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2017/12/12/working-with-exif-image-metadata-in-survey123-for-arcgis blog post. With this approach, the X Y will end up as attributes of your survey. You will need to create an event table later to see the location of the photos. You can also get the compass value from the EXIF to rotate the symbols in the map accordingly to the direction in which the photo was taken. 
• If your survey only has one photo question, then you can even calculate the geopoint question with the XY values from your photo. That is: you put your geopoint question in read-only mode and then calculate its value based on the XY coordinates from the photo. A bit on calculating geopoints at https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2016/06/08/calculations-on-geopoints 
• If you rather want to allow the end user to capture multiple photos, you can include a repeat within your survey and then add the image question, along with a geopoint and the corresponding calculation into the repeat. A bit more about things you can do with repeats here: https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2020/04/09/survey123-tricks-of-the-trade-repeats 

If you use calculations to set the geometry of a geopoint question, you will have your photos in the map right away. If instead you keep the XY coordinates as attributes, you will need an extra step to create an event layer before you can see the photos in the map.  Either method will work. The key is to use the EXIF as shown above to extract the true XY coordinates of each photo.