We need the ability to stream a line while adding point features using Collector. I need to be able to drive a newly built road or a road underconstruction and stream that line into collector as I drive. While its streaming I need my passenger to have the ability to add points of road closures, signs, construction, with out stopping and starting the streaming feature.https://geonet.esri.com/message/453114#453114
@rholmes_hema because QC is built in Australia by the ArcPad team and FM in Redlands.
This is a must for this application.
It would be great to get the same thing for Fieldmaps, if Quick Capture can do it why not the others
This is a much needed feature for our business. Not having this feature makes our data collection time consuming and error prone. Is there any update on this one?
This feature is needed ESRI!
Any comment from ESRI on this? Surely this is on your road map for Field Maps?
Please explain why QuickCapture can and Field maps can’t. It is definitely a show stopper for our team. I would like to use field maps but will have to look for a better product if this function request continues to be ignored. We need continuous simultaneous collection with offline capability.
This functionality is available in QuickCapture why not field maps??? Seriously why is this not a function of field maps when it is a pretty basic function and requirement to see the line track in real time as a single stream while collecting other data . It has been a major road block for users who prefer to use other products such as Avenza that allows collection all in one app. QuickCapture doesn’t allow offline or we would switch to this and ditch field maps. Esri please listen to your field map users who have requested this function for some time now.
Hello,
We have the need to stream tracking with Field Maps and collect points along the way for research purposes. I realize this thread is for Collector (from 2015!), but as I understand it Field Maps is the successor to Collector - is this on the development roadmap at all? QuickCapture is great, but we need a map-based solution and Field Maps does what we need except for this. This seems like such a basic functionality for a field data collection tool!
Thanks,
Sam
Hi George
We are well aware of Quick Capture and were hoping some of the concepts proven there would be ported across to Collector. The limitations of Quick Capture would mean resolving 1 issues while introducing 10 others, it simply not a viable business solution for the majority of use cases, but Collector could be by just resolving these few outstanding niggles; but unfortunately at the moment it is not either.
Come on ESRI start listening to your users, Collector has been you flagship mobile solution for many years now and yet it is still not fit for purpose. We simply cannot confuse our field staff by expecting them to move form app to app every time there is a little nuance in the data collection workflow. There are plenty of other solutions which perform what we need, but they will integrate seamlessly with our ESRI enterprise, so whats so hard in giving us something which does both.
Thanks
Martin
You may want to look into ArcGIS QuickCapture when it is released very soon. I saw an overview yesterday and it looks like it may meet what you need.
Ismael Chivite - FYI
This is crucial to one of our workflows as well. Our user would like to be able to stream a line as they walk for linear mileage on a trail but then add discrete points for things like "drain cleared" or "steps" or "rock work" or "tree felled" etc... all at the same time. No starting and stopping the stream to collect each point. That's not an option.
Our Vegetation and restoration group uses Collector for data collection of points and linear features. However, they also track the length in distance of where they worked on. In order to do this, they use Avenza to track their progress They also use Avenza for tracking their transect lines during surveys, while simultaneously record point data.
If Collector had the functionality to collect lines or tracks a the same time as being able to record points, we would not need to use Avenza and take out the extra data management aspect of this workflow.
Check this out:
https://community.esri.com/community/esri-labs/blog/2018/07/13/introducing-quickcapture-for-arcgis
My organization has a similar need to stream trail locations while being able to collect point of interest information along the trail as we go. This seems like a basic functionality that Collector should be able to accomplish. To get around this we are logging tracks in our Bad Elf app, but there require export to GPX/KML. Would be great to have this integrated into one Collector map.
I’m mapping trails, and just starting into Collector. I designed my workflow in advance, and was disappointed that Collecter doesn’t support this functionality. Simultaneous line streaming (multiple lines) and point collection would eliminate multiple passes of the same section of trail.
Throwing support behind this. Let's do it ESRI!
Just to clarify our use case ... we would want to keep streaming the line and simultaneously add a point.
Most of this type of collection for us is done in helicopters which aren't keen on pausing.
In the realm of trails mapping, we would want to walk a trail while collecting asset management features along the way as points (signs, garbage cans, benches, kiosks, trail heads, points of interest, etc.). The ability to pause line collections, switch to a point collection, then switch back to line collection would be much more efficient along non-linear trails, while also reducing post-processing times.
Scott Prindle My agency uses Collector to manage natural resource sites. On a typical inspection, we walk the perimeter of the site and would ideally take point locations along the way to record notable features or problems. We use the streaming tool to create a polygon, but if we pause streaming to add a point and then try to go back to edit the polygon and continue streaming, it's a nonstarter. Streaming can be started again in edit mode, but the polygon is not updated. So we end up having to walk the perimeter twice, once for the polygon and once for the points - highly inefficient.
Scott,
This is also very important in our work. At least two different aspects off of the top of my head could use simultaneous feature collection.
For one aspect, we collect abandoned road data for possible decommissioning in natural resource/habitat restoration. The ability to stream the road (line feature) while collecting various other data like culverts, wash-outs, failures, etc. (point data) would save countless hours of post-processing work in ArcMap.
We also could collect data for treatment of invasive species on roads and trails (line feature) while being able to draw a point or polygon around a new invading species without terminating our line. This also would save loads of post-processing time in the office.
I cannot think of a more helpful tool that the one that is proposed in this topic PLEASE help us make this happen.
Thank you,
Shawn
I agree with most of the above comments it is the same in our workflow where the user collects a line i.e. a road or a fire edge and also needs to record point features along the way including attachments. It is a bit of a showstopper for using collector with many of our users when they realise they have to stop and go. Not an easy thing to do in an aircraft for example and potentially dangerous in a vehicle.
Regards
Jürgen
We use ArcPad right now stream polylines while collecting points while searching for invasive species. This lack of functionality is what is stopping us from using Collector.
This is also a deal breaker for us.
ArcPad had this functionality, so there is a working example of how this concept on how this functionality could be exposed to the user - Start recording a line, allow user to add points while it is recording in the background / waiting for closing vertices.
Our clients would use this for road asset management / damage assessment purposes. Eg: recording a damaged section of road, also needing to record a broken sign or drain before reaching the end of the road. Currently they have to plan the sequence of the collection, back track once completed the line to record point features (often forgetting to). I have also seen applications in environmental management - eg record a transect for pest animal spotting, and record each sighting while the transect is still being recorded.
We have situations where clients are taking out two devices to do this with current the current software - one for lines one for points.
Michael
Thank you all for commenting and voting on this idea. When commenting, please consider expanding upon your use case and how this functionality would enhance your current workflows.
Scott
Yes this is vital for our weed control and environmental monitoring work. We need to be able to measure ground covered and point locations of control or observations
Absolutely, this may be a deal breaker for my client using the program or not - they need to collect boundaries in the field and collect way points as they go. It is much too time consuming for them to stop a line add attributes, add a point, save it, continue collecting line....This is a must-have for our industry.
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