topic Re: How to center an annotatable image of an map from a previous geopoint's coordinates? in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

How to center an annotatable image of an map from a previous geopoint's coordinates?

ChipMorgan65 — Tue, 20 May 2025 14:56:05 GMT

I've got a simple Survey 123 Connect XLSform (attached) to practice with image annotation of a map. What I want is to set a geopoint and then annotate a map based image centered on the geopoint's coordinates.

The logic is simplified for testing.

The image question uses annotate for the appearance and method=camera,browse,map for the body::esri:style.

The map is annotatable as expected. It's just not centered on the geopoint's coordinates, but instead on my device's current location.

Any thoughts?

Re: How to center an annotatable image of an map from a previous geopoint's coordinates?

abureaux — Tue, 20 May 2025 17:25:00 GMT

Default and Calculate settings are ignored by an image question when referencing lat-lon. I'd guess because it isn't a traditional "geopoint" question it doesn't know how to handle the input.

What I mean by that is you can specify a default or calculate value for geopoints and have them go to that location. Ex:

Unfortunately, I don't think that can be done. But it may be worth making an Idea.

Re: How to center an annotatable image of an map from a previous geopoint's coordinates?

ChipMorgan65 — Tue, 20 May 2025 18:21:44 GMT

Understood, and thanks for your reply.

A (partially) saving grace is that folks that will be annotating maps will probably be on-site and thus the map will center on their location.

Re: How to center an annotatable image of an map from a previous geopoint's coordinates?

Neal_t_k — Tue, 20 May 2025 18:35:09 GMT

I came to the same conclusion as @abureaux , A couple thoughts: What are the survey takers collecting with the annotation? Could you use the geoshape type, and then have a comments field to describe the shape?

I also tried a backward approach of seeing if I could pull the coordinates from the exif data of the map grab, but unfortunately coordinates are not collected.