Option to select basemap to take offline in Collector

[TysonJohnston]

When you choose to take a map offline in Collector, you are forced to use whatever basemap was set as default by the map creator.  This is not an issue if you are working online - you can switch to any available basemap.  Please add the functionality to select the basemap you want to take offline when you choose your map extent and map detail.

[ScottPrindle]

Hello Tyson,

Thank you for submitting this idea. Do you find that the basemap that was chosen in the web map at the time of authoring isn't suited for the job, or that field workers just have different preferences in the backdrop while they work? Do they frequently work in the same areas, or do they need to download new basemaps for each project/web map? Are they authoring any web maps, or is this done by an individual for a larger number of consumers?

Please feel free to comment on this idea to expand upon the discussion on basemaps in Collector for ArcGIS.

Thanks,

Scott

[TysonJohnston]

Scott, enabling the basemap gallery when going offline would be helpful.  We work across our entire state, in various types of terrain and I don't think we should assume the one size fits all in terms of the basemap.  Everyone has the option to select any basemap while working online, so why not when going offline?  What is the difference?  End users are not publishing our own maps in this case.  Several users are relying on maps published by our GIS admin.  Thanks. 

[ScottPrindle]

Hey Tyson,

Thanks for sharing this feedback. Are your GIS admins publishing the web maps or the basemaps as well? Can you share some scenarios where a field worker would need to switch from the published basemap (ex. web map was published using World Street Map, but they are in the wilderness so topographic would be more beneficial)?

Thanks,

Scott

[Natalie_MRunyan1]

In our case, we have a single publisher in each business unit (mining, forestry, petroleum, etc). Each has many users, and among those users, some may be doing reconnaissance in the morning and inspection in the afternoon, or on a single field trip, using topos for contextual feature reference, but then imagery for data collection once hiked into a remote site. In some cases we generate our own tiled map cache, in order to burn large extents of vector data into imagery (such as land ownership and relatively static business data).  It would be useful to have that basemap at one scale range (often smaller scale, which helps because the imagery doesn't need so many levels), then switch to a different at a different scale range once 'in the neighborhood'. My assumption is that performance would be enhanced if a user was rendering one cache at smaller scales (with fewer levels), then rendering a different one when at larger scales (more levels).

[DevinRoth]

Hi Scott, I'm curious if this issue is still on your radar, or if there is a solution since this thread was active.