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Scale Bar and Navigation with Bearing/Distance in Collector

RichardBotta1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 12:57:45 GMT

When working in the field it would be nice to have a scale bar on the Collector app. When collecting points on open water, you may not have a visual reference of how zoomed in you are on the basemap.

Also, it would be extremely helpful to have a way to navigate with bearing and distance to a point, like ArcPad had

Re: Scale Bar and Navigation with Bearing/Distance in Collector

RosieYacoub — Tue, 17 May 2016 16:31:53 GMT

Yes, a replacement of the "freehand measure" tool that provided bearing and distance of a line drawn on map would be awesome

Re: Scale Bar and Navigation with Bearing/Distance in Collector

SteveGensler — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:55:40 GMT

Botanical gardens face the same issue in that we work at a large scale and need to know the distance between objects, especially plants. Having dynamic scale bar would be a significant benefit in helping our staff orient themselves while in the field. I recognize that the scale may be intuitive for users who are working at the "street scale", but working at a "plant scale" requires more detail and a scale bar would be helpful.

Re: Scale Bar and Navigation with Bearing/Distance in Collector

DanielleKulas — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:02:47 GMT

I agree, and I've posted this idea (https://community.esri.com/ideas/10710 ) as well as another person (https://community.esri.com/ideas/10900 ) I think that ESRI should merge them all together.

Re: Scale Bar and Navigation with Bearing/Distance in Collector

DanHiggins — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 18:26:58 GMT

scale bar?

Yes our field crews are asking for it also.

ESRI - What map does not have a scale bar shown?

Re: Scale Bar and Navigation with Bearing/Distance in Collector

Scott_atEsri — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 17:11:00 GMT

Check this out - Trek2There app released by Esri Labs:

https://community.esri.com/groups/appstudio/blog/2016/10/19/introducing-trek2there

Re: Scale Bar and Navigation with Bearing/Distance in Collector

IsmaelChivite — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 00:40:14 GMT

Some details regarding integration of Trek2There with Collector and Explorer are available here: https://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2016/12/22/introducing-trek2there/

Re: Scale Bar and Navigation with Bearing/Distance in Collector

LanceCase — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 19:34:24 GMT

Check out "What's new?—Collector for ArcGIS | ArcGIS" and "Quick reference—Collector for ArcGIS | ArcGIS" from Jan. 16/17, 2019.

Would have preferred numeric bearing instead of cardinal/inter-cardinal directions and options for picking distance units, but a very good improvement otherwise!