topic Re: Create a custom geolocator for location search in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Create a custom geolocator for location search

DornMoore — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 14:37:54 GMT

We have a form we use to help citizen scientists record their sightings. We have a layer of 'sites' where most of them make their observations and I'd like to make those available when they do a location search - most of them won't carry the form on a mobile device into the field but will fill out a form later. Is there a way to add a layer to the search function for geopoint search?

Thanks in advance!

Re: Create a custom geolocator for location search

JohnathanHasthorpe — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:32:33 GMT

Hi Dorn - How many sites are you looking to include? It could be possible to use the pulldata() function to update the location of a geopoint question. This would be based on the user selecting from a list.

Take a look at the following example:

https://survey123.arcgis.com/surveys/cda53bf550924a8abf23c53330a86492/collaborate

Re: Create a custom geolocator for location search

DornMoore — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 12:21:54 GMT

Far too many sites for that to work sadly. Thanks

Dorn Moore, Geospatial & Information Services Manager

International Crane Foundation

dorn@savingcranes.org

Sent from Outlook<https://aka.ms/qtex0l> on my phone.

Please excuse any auto-fill faux pas.

Re: Create a custom geolocator for location search

JohnathanHasthorpe — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 02:19:23 GMT

We have an enhancement request open to do a search on a feature layer. I'll add you to it.

An alternative approach would be to make use of the geo-search functionality currently available in beta:

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