idea Change Compass Direction Format and Distance Units in ArcGIS Collector Ideas

Change Compass Direction Format and Distance Units

LanceCase — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 20:03:19 GMT

Very happy to finally see direction and distance in the new Compass tool in the new version of Collector (What's new?—Collector for ArcGIS | ArcGIS). It would be even better if the directions were not in cardinal or inter-cardinal format, but a numeric format instead. It would also be nice to be able to pick the distance units to the feature or dropped pin.

Many others will be glad to see this new Compass tool in Collector as well:

Combine Trek2There and Collector @Matthew Criel

Collector - Distance and bearing navigation @David Bojc

Scale Bar and Navigation with Bearing/Distance in Collector @ Richbotta@gmail.com

Collector App- ability to navigate to a map feature with a bearing (not street directions) @Danielle Kulas

ArcGIS Navigator for Foresters/Hikers/Remote Locations

Thanks for the continued app development!

Re: Change Compass Direction Format and Distance Units

ZacharyHart — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 18:38:36 GMT

Having a bearing and distance to a point is a business critical item for us. Esri, take note that Avenza maps provides this functionality.

Re: Change Compass Direction Format and Distance Units

JeffShaner — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 18:10:30 GMT

@ZacharyHart - not sure if you have had a chance to look at Field Maps yet but we did add bearing/distance to the compass. It shows up on the sliding panel on your phone.

I'd be interested in hearing more about how you use the compass in your workflows.

I have looked at the Navigation functionality in Avenza and there seem to be 4 navigation methods:

1. Project Destination
2. Navigate to Feature
3. Enter Coordinates
4. Create a Route.

With Field Maps, you can navigate to a feature, a place on the map (from a long press) or by coordinate (search for a coordinate and then from the result navigate to it - perhaps a bit hidden). How do you use Create a Route? Seems like it may be a "stake out" workflow - something we are considering for data collection.

Would love to gather more information on this from you and others on this. Also would be interested to hear if supporting a view of the navigation would be useful on a peripheral device, like an Apple Watch, so you could keep your head up as you walk.

Thanks.

Re: Change Compass Direction Format and Distance Units

ZacharyHart — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 15:00:51 GMT

@JeffShaner

Hi Jeff! This is great news. I've reached out to a couple coworkers who oversee much of our fieldwork for feedback and hopefully some additional details for you!