topic Re: Pull up Scanned Maps in the Field in CAD/GIS Data Integration Questions

Pull up Scanned Maps in the Field

AlexGodfrey — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 15:12:48 GMT

I work for a small utility company and I am in the process of scanning hundreds of old construction plans and as-builts from around the area. My plan is to georeference some of these maps and have them available for crews working in the field. I currently have it where some hand drawings can be accessed by links in the attribute tables but these are for single features. The drawings that I am scanning cover large areas and I am wondering what the best way would be so that if they are in an area, they could click on that area in the Collector App and the scanned map would show up. I have thought about making a Polygon layer that would outline the area covered by the maps, and adding links in the attributes for those polygons. The only issue there would be that many of these features may overlap or even encompass others (Smaller scale Overview drawings with multiple larger scale drawings within them). Does anyone have any suggestions on a good way to have these maps available to field workers so that they could click on a location and a scanned map pops up?

Re: Pull up Scanned Maps in the Field

LeonS — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 15:17:18 GMT

Have you looked and the Plans and Drawings solution? Plans and Drawings | ArcGIS Solutions for Local Government

We started implementing it a year ago and its been very helpful. You basically create polygons for plan extents and add the plans as an attachment to the feature.

Leon

Re: Pull up Scanned Maps in the Field

AlexGodfrey — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 15:18:14 GMT

Thanks Leon! I'll check it out.

Re: Pull up Scanned Maps in the Field

ChelseaRozek — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 15:34:42 GMT

It looks like that Plans and Drawings solution is built with Web App Builder. You could add a Near Me widget to help users select all plans near the area they will be, even if the polygons overlap. Works well on mobile devices too.

Re: Pull up Scanned Maps in the Field

AlexGodfrey — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 19:04:56 GMT

The Plans and Drawings solution seems to be working great. Just to be clear, the attachments to the features would only use 1.2 credits a month per GB correct?

Re: Pull up Scanned Maps in the Field

MichaelVolz — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 19:24:05 GMT

Is that price based on the size of images being stored? If so, could it get expensive if you have color images that are much larger in size than b/w images?

Re: Pull up Scanned Maps in the Field

AlexGodfrey — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 19:42:09 GMT

I have scanned about 60% of our drawings and I'm at around 1500 files totaling 1.6 GB. The majority of the maps are B/W but there are some color. I am anticipating that once all is said and done I will have around 2.5 GB of scanned documents. I don't anticipate having to attach every single document though. So if I am understanding the credit consumption, if i have around 2 GB of attachments that should only run me about 2.4 credits a month. Does this seem right?

Re: Pull up Scanned Maps in the Field

LeonS — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 21:36:35 GMT

Yes, that sounds about right. According to the documentation the storage costs for attachments is 1.2 credits per 1 GB per month.

Understand credits—ArcGIS Online Help | ArcGIS

Leon

Re: Pull up Scanned Maps in the Field

AdrianWelsh — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 16:55:39 GMT

Alex,

Will your current annual-credit-allotment allow you to sustain this large amount of data on your AGOL account? And is everything else working out ok?

Re: Pull up Scanned Maps in the Field

AlexGodfrey — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:03:23 GMT

2.4 credits a month shouldn't have much of an effect for us. Everything is working great. I will post updates as I make more progress.

Re: Pull up Scanned Maps in the Field

AdrianWelsh — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 22:29:10 GMT

Alex, that's great to hear! If Leon's response helped answer your question, please click on Mark Correct on his response.

Re: Pull up Scanned Maps in the Field

NathanBruce1 — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 15:55:02 GMT

Anyone have ideas for the alternative to getting around the 10mb limit on attachments? Perhaps you are adding the documents directly to AGO being stored as files.

We have a ton of multipage plans/profiles that are exceptionally large scanned pdf's that cannot be compressed further down beyond even 300mb in some instances.

We are seeking out a way to have them stored in a geodatabase, although this doesn't appear to work with the Linux server setup we have in place; maybe someone has a better idea.

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