topic Re: Timestamp on gps points in ArcPad Questions

Timestamp on gps points

TomRutherford — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:14:13 GMT

Hi,

I'm writing from in the field with limited internet access, so apologies if this question seems overly simplistic.

I'm trying to gather gps points, but at each point I also need to record the exact time at which I took the point. This seems like something that should be easy, but when I try to create a quickform on my trimble juno SB (running arcpad 8), I do not see any "time" option. The closest thing I can find is a date field, but points taken using this field record day, month and year, but not minute and second.

I need hour, minute, second, and possibly milliseconds. Can someone tell me what I'm missing?

The laptop I'm using to store the data seems to be running ArcMAP 10, and I'm not really clear on the difference between ArcGIS, ArcMAP and ArcPad.

Thanks in advance,

Tom

Re: Timestamp on gps points

DeanFranklin1 — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:15:10 GMT

Tom,

If you create a field, using ArcMap and make it the "date" Type, it should automatically collect date, hour, min, second. I have included a picture displaying this.

Good luck!

Re: Timestamp on gps points

PatrickMurphy — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:40:50 GMT

I am not sure that is correct. Seems like I remember that the date control/field in arcpad only has month-day -year but not time. I at least had problems with that in the past. My workaround was to have a text field with a default value of NOW() that does and excellent job of making a great sorting field in the format of yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.

Re: Timestamp on gps points

PatrickMurphy — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:49:00 GMT

There is also this option from another thread that wanted to record PDOP

You can use the following ArcScript (unsupported by ESRI Support) to populate the PDOP, along with quite a few other attributes, to features taken with the gps.

Add XYZ to Table
http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=16785

I have used this before and it works great. The previous author said that it works with ArcPad 10 as well.

Re: Timestamp on gps points

DeanFranklin1 — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:57:45 GMT

I am not sure that is correct.

It is, as seen from the screen shot I provided.

I am using ArcPad 10.0.2 and Arcmap 10