idea Collector freehand feature capture template in ArcGIS Collector Ideas https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-collector-ideas/collector-freehand-feature-capture-template/idi-p/957056 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>It would be very useful if the freehand and auto-complete freehand digitising options were available in Collector for ArcGIS editing templates.<BR /><BR />Capturing contiguous polygons with detailed shapes such as vegetation, land zones and management areas is tricky in Collector as the tolerance for adding a new vertex vs moving the previous vertex makes quick digitisation of boundaries very slow. Given that there are many tablets with accurate styluses out there (e.g. the Samsung S-Pen and Microsoft Surface pen), it would be far more efficient and intuitive for our ecologists to freehand draw these features.&nbsp;<BR /><BR />Related to the idea <A href="https://community.esri.com/" target="_blank" class="jive_macro jive_macro_idea" __jive_macro_name="idea" __default_attr="10370" title="here&nbsp;" modifiedtitle="true">here&nbsp;</A>&nbsp;it would also be useful if the auto-complete freehand tool was available as fixing the hundreds of tiny overlaps and gaps between polygons in ArcMap is incredibly time consuming and tedious. <!-- content transformation source ID: 087E0000000kB4z --> </BODY></HTML> Mon, 04 Jan 2016 23:42:29 GMT BiosisGIS 2016-01-04T23:42:29Z Collector freehand feature capture template https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-collector-ideas/collector-freehand-feature-capture-template/idi-p/957056 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>It would be very useful if the freehand and auto-complete freehand digitising options were available in Collector for ArcGIS editing templates.<BR /><BR />Capturing contiguous polygons with detailed shapes such as vegetation, land zones and management areas is tricky in Collector as the tolerance for adding a new vertex vs moving the previous vertex makes quick digitisation of boundaries very slow. Given that there are many tablets with accurate styluses out there (e.g. the Samsung S-Pen and Microsoft Surface pen), it would be far more efficient and intuitive for our ecologists to freehand draw these features.&nbsp;<BR /><BR />Related to the idea <A href="https://community.esri.com/" target="_blank" class="jive_macro jive_macro_idea" __jive_macro_name="idea" __default_attr="10370" title="here&nbsp;" modifiedtitle="true">here&nbsp;</A>&nbsp;it would also be useful if the auto-complete freehand tool was available as fixing the hundreds of tiny overlaps and gaps between polygons in ArcMap is incredibly time consuming and tedious. <!-- content transformation source ID: 087E0000000kB4z --> </BODY></HTML> Mon, 04 Jan 2016 23:42:29 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-collector-ideas/collector-freehand-feature-capture-template/idi-p/957056 BiosisGIS 2016-01-04T23:42:29Z Re: Collector freehand feature capture template https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-collector-ideas/collector-freehand-feature-capture-template/idc-p/957057#M854 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Great idea! This functionality would be extremely helpful with geologic mapping.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Mar 2018 23:09:45 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-collector-ideas/collector-freehand-feature-capture-template/idc-p/957057#M854 ZachAnderson2 2018-03-26T23:09:45Z