I often need to draw on the map to exchange ideas with others. I can use the map notes in ArcGIS Enterprise map viewer or Draw widget in Web Appbuilder, but they don't support my smart pen very well.
As an alternative, I use snipping tool or MS surface pro whiteboard function, but this workaround has its limitations. for example, I have to work outside of my GIS work space and the map is not interactive....
Nowadays most mobile devices come with a touch screen, some with a smart/active pen (e.g. surface pro and iPad Pro), it make sense to have the built-in function to fully use these great input devices to write and draw on the web map, no matter what you call it: map notes, drawings, graphics, annotations...
Actually, I would like to see the pen support across all ArcGIS products. After all, we've been writing with pens for so many years before computer mouse were invented.
BTW, I tried the annotation function in ArcGIS Pro with an active pen, the experience is not good in the current version.
This could be very useful, too, if you want to let people who do not regularly work with GIS, or do not have much time, add information to a map. Specifically, I am looking for a way to update a map with the help of local experts in a survey, and selecting and modifying features on site is too cumbersome.
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