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Hello, I hope that all are safe, healthy, and staying sane. I work for a small nonprofit and we are looking to develop a geospatial mobile field data collection framework for our volunteers. Initially it looked as though Collector for ArcGIS would be the perfect tool, however I just spoke with an ESRI rep and they informed me that each volunteer who used Collector for us would also have to have an ArcGIS Online Creator account. If that is true, we would need to purchase 10-25 of those licenses and we barely have the budget to purchase one license for our organization. I could have been asking the question, about users, incorrectly. It seems like that would be odd that every company that uses Collector would have to have different user accounts for all their field workers that use it to collect data. But maybe larger companies can also afford the additional users. It seems then, that our only choice for deploying a non-fee based geospatial field mobile data collection framework is to use AppStudio? If this is the case, how difficult is it to create and deploy an app. It would be pretty simplistic. We are interested in users having the ability to place points and/or draw polygons while also having the ability to fill out a form about the site. Any implementation advise would be greatly appreciated and have a great rest of the day.
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Thank you both. Mark, I have contacted ESRI support about the nonprofit program. Erwin, Thank you for the suggestions on the templates to use and the case study. I will check them out in the coming week(s). Things are pretty upended in our world right now. Thanks again and I will let you know if I have any questions. Garrett
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Hello All, I hope that everyone is staying safe in this time of crisis. My nonprofit organization is working on developing a mobile app. Since we are a nonprofit we cannot afford to pay an app developer so the task has fallen to myself to try and develop something that will meet our needs. Let me start with an overview of the project. Within the San Juan Mountains there are innumerous human carvings on trees, some more artful and historical than others. Over the years researchers have identified a number of similar carvings located throughout the range that have been attributed to Basque and Irish sheep herders that traversed the landscape over 100 years ago.These artful marks are commonly called arborglyphs, not to be confused with modern carvings that includes hearts, initials, etc... Most, if not all, of these carvings are found on aspen trees that are starting to reach their maximum life span. As such, our funder, would like to create an app that documents the locations of these traditional carvings. The app, that we hope to develop, will hopefully have two main functions. First, we would like for users to have the ability to view, on a map, where currently documented arborglyphs are as well as having the ability to navigate to them. These locations (points) will be accompanied by popups that should contain photographs and text descriptions. Second, we would like users to be able to use their cell phones to take geotagged pictures of arborglyphs that are not identified on the aforementioned map. These photos can then be uploaded by the user and if necessary we can fill in the text details later on through an administration role. I have been playing around with ESRI's AppStudio program over the last couple of weeks, working through some of the basic tutorials, but I am not sure if that is the best avenue to be heading down. What I have not found is if I can develop an app where you can customize point popups to contain attribute information such as pictures, descriptions, located on public/private property, creator of carving, etc... that can be controlled by either the user uploading the photograph, or an administrator post upload. I also have not found anything that says whether a user can use their mobile phone camera to take and upload photos to the app. I looked at the camera app that is included in the package but I am not sure if you can then upload a geotagged photo to the app or not? Finally, I am not sure if AppStuio is even the right ESRI software package to use for this project? I know that there is 123Survey and Collector for ArcGIS. Maybe those are better avenues to travel down for the functionality that I am looking for? We are not going to sell this app commercially, but I suppose that it would be hosted on an app download site. Any insights would be greatly appreciated.
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