Latest Contributions by JohnMDye

Kind of a crazy thought, but since App Studio Desktop was built with App Studio and is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux - is there any reason it can't be compiled for iPads? Think about that...with an AppStudio Desktop for iPad, one would be able to do their development on a truly mobile device. For compiling, you could use cloud make. For an IDE, Textastic would probably work well and tI've heard a native VSCode for iPad might be in the works. AppStudio player is already available for iPad as well. Maybe there are more technical complications I'm not considering but I think being able to develop a native mobile application using only an iPad would be a pretty neat feature. ... View more

While already possible to do using Survey123 Connect, a great enhancement for the web designer would be the option to specify a specific web map to display instead of using a standard empty web map when configuring a map/geopoint question. Custom web maps would have additional contextual layers in the web map which might aid users completing a survey, for example if a survey response had already been submitted reporting something, a feature could be displayed in the webmap and the user completing the survey would see that when they visited the location where they wanted to report something.   ... View more

It would be nice to have some configurable options on the map/geopoint question to control which map controls are displayed    ... View more

It would be great to see a basemap widget added to the Survey123 webform. I believe this is already present on the native apps.   Where's the basemap switcher widget? ... View more

I'm publishing a feature layer from a spatially-enabled dataframe using the .to_featurelayer method on the GeoAccessor class. Works great, no issues there. One of the columns in my SDF contains a comma-separated list of "amenities" for each feature. Obviously, the number of amenities varies by location. When attempting to update a record, I'd found that none of the records in my publish contained the maximum number of amenities, the field length was set to a lower length than what I might need in the future. Is there a way to explicitly set the field length when publishing through the Python API? I've looked through the documentation and don't see an obvious way to do this but I'm hoping I've missed something.  ... View more

I am trying to keep my credit usage minimal on ArcGIS Online. I have a standard python notebook that reaches out to an API, makes a query , pushes the query results into a spatial dataframe and then either updates a feature layer if it already exists, or if not, publishes the feature layer. Everything works, its great. However, I noticed my credit balance dropping a little faster than I'd like. So I wanted to take a look at whether I was using the most appropriate feature layer type. I took a look at the Understanding Credits documentation, specifically Credits by Capability and noted that Feature Storage is charged at a rate of 2.4 credits per 10MB stored, calculated hourly while Feature Collection storage is charged at a rate of 1.2 credits per 1GB stored, calculated hourly.   That's a significant savings, but I am confused. Capability Example of where used Credits used Feature storage, excluding feature attachments, feature collections, and features associated with location tracking Store a hosted feature layer 2.4 credits per 10 MB stored per month, calculated hourly Note: Feature layer settings, such as Enable Sync and Keep track of created and updated features, can increase storage size over time. Storage of all content, excluding hosted feature layers and content in ArcGIS Notebooks Store web maps Store feature collections Store attachments in a hosted feature layer Store published vector tile layers from ArcGIS Pro Store scene layer packages from ArcGIS Pro 1.2 credits per 1 GB stored per month, calculated hourly   Feature Storage cites the example of storing a hosted feature layer - makes sense. Meanwhile, storage of all content, excluding hosted feature layers and content in ArcGIS Notebooks cites multiple different examples, including storing Feature Collections. In my python notebook, I create a Feature Layer from a spatial dataframe already populated with x/y coordinates and attributes using:  which produces a Feature Layer Collection. All is good. But then I look in My Content in my organization and the item type is shown as Feature Layer (hosted).  So which is it? A Hosted Feature Layer or a Feature Layer Collection? Am I going to be charged 2.4 credits per 10MB/month or 1.2 credits per 1GB/month for my Feature Layer Collection/Feature Layer (hosted) item. OR am I thinking about Feature Collections wrong and the Feature Layer collection is actually the Shapefile that was generated, which the Feature Layer (hosted) was then created from and the Shapefile is what costs 1.2 credits per 1GB/month while the Feature Layer (hosted) costs 2/4 credits per 10MB/month. ... View more