Latest Contributions by BRIANSCHEER

Hello,    My name is Brian i work for a utility company as a supervisor, my duties range greatly. but one that i am most proud of is maintaining our gis data base and gis map. i have been involved with our gis map since it first had thought back in 2001, back in the good ol days of sub-meter accuracy. Recently,(August 2019) I had an idea of trying to see how i could utilize our gis map for our monthly held board of directors meetings.  You see developers usually send in and very small vicinity map that has been photo copied and 90% of the time these maps are barely legible, it is especially difficult on our older board members. These small paper maps are accompanied by a 1 page letter requesting what available utilities we have in a certain area. This is done when a developer wants to build a new subdivision, condo, or new retail business.        So with this in mind, I thought about using a samsung smart tv as a catalyst to use our gis map for our aging board members to be able to see what areas are in question when discussing not only new infrastructure projects within our system, but also as a guide to show locations for utility availability letters. This idea I had came to fruition with the blessing of my managers. So i went and purchased a Samsung smart tv from walmart. I set up the tv, connected it to the internet and logged into to our esri account and I was able to show our gis map in the map viewer. It worked great, just like utilizing the gis map from a 65 inch computer screen, i purchased a mouse and keyboard and bam! we were in business. This idea turned out to be a great idea and I received a lot of praise from our board. This idea worked great, I was able to bring up the gis data, switch between the different imagery basemaps, I was even able to create new maps and place pins on the different locations associated with the utility availability letters. I also was able to show areas within our system easier to our board when in discussions about the future infrastructure upgrades we were planning. I was on cloud 9 on how well it worked, well i was. The smart tv idea worked phenomenal until our December board meeting. The gis map would come up and work as it should except the "pan" feature was gone, i could no longer grab the screen with the cursor and drag the map to a certain area, I did have zoom in/out capability or search and address as a way to move the map to a certain area. However, these methods were not practical as using the "pan" feature. I tried changing settings, tried a different mouse, tried using a corded mouse vs the wireless mouse and nothing. I could not get it to function like it had. So, this past week after another difficult board meeting i reached out to esri for a solution. I found out the las update for the online accounts was on December 10th, our issues were first noticed on December 19th. So my thinking there is a bug in the latest update. Esri on the other hand is saying the tinzen browser that the samsung smart tv uses is not compatible with arcgis software, which is weird because it worked fine until the latest esri update. So i thought, well i will try google maps. well for some reason the pan feature works as it should on google maps, just not the gis map when logged into esri online. So my idea is that maybe the developers and the engineers at esri will consider testing using the tinzen browser that samsung uses for its smart tv's because, I promise you it is another easier tool to have especially for small meeting rooms. having the gis map hanging on the wall and being able to present it is very nice and more accommodating than having a work station setup or using a projector. its so much easier. so if you guys and gals can figure out a way to get my pan feature back that would be great.          I know my idea is long winded, but felt i needed to provide some history and some reasoning behind my idea so you could understand it better. thank you for your time in advance. Brian S.  field supervisor/ gis tech ... View more

not able to access gis maps after logging in to collector app on android device, i get a status wheel but then in adverts back to the front screen. we use this app daily and need some help. thankyou ... View more