topic Strategy: Incremental vs comprehensive field data collection in Implementing ArcGIS Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/implementing-arcgis-questions/strategy-incremental-vs-comprehensive-field-data/m-p/532345#M491 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have clients for whom I have assembled local data sets, exposed them as feature services and made them available to Collector.&nbsp; The data sets need verification or additional information added from the field.</P><P></P><P>My inclination is to organize a comprehensive survey to bring a data set to 100% reliability and design workflow protocols to maintain it going forward.&nbsp; However, some clients want to edit data incrementally in the field while they are carrying out other work activities.</P><P></P><P>My hesitation with the incremental approach is that 1) the data set is not fully reliable for a long time, 2) it can be hard to keep track of which features are up to date (although tracking Last Edit Date can help there).&nbsp; Point 1 means that you can't do reliable aggregate statistics on the data set.&nbsp; The comprehensive survey, however, requires more investment of time and staff.&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>Looking for feedback from the community on these two approaches...</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:38:31 GMT KevinMayall 2019-02-13T15:38:31Z Strategy: Incremental vs comprehensive field data collection https://community.esri.com/t5/implementing-arcgis-questions/strategy-incremental-vs-comprehensive-field-data/m-p/532345#M491 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have clients for whom I have assembled local data sets, exposed them as feature services and made them available to Collector.&nbsp; The data sets need verification or additional information added from the field.</P><P></P><P>My inclination is to organize a comprehensive survey to bring a data set to 100% reliability and design workflow protocols to maintain it going forward.&nbsp; However, some clients want to edit data incrementally in the field while they are carrying out other work activities.</P><P></P><P>My hesitation with the incremental approach is that 1) the data set is not fully reliable for a long time, 2) it can be hard to keep track of which features are up to date (although tracking Last Edit Date can help there).&nbsp; Point 1 means that you can't do reliable aggregate statistics on the data set.&nbsp; The comprehensive survey, however, requires more investment of time and staff.&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>Looking for feedback from the community on these two approaches...</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:38:31 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/implementing-arcgis-questions/strategy-incremental-vs-comprehensive-field-data/m-p/532345#M491 KevinMayall 2019-02-13T15:38:31Z