It would be very useful to be able to draw polygons freehand (like you can in ArcGIS Pro), instead of by adding individual vertices. This would be especially useful when creating polygons that are rounded and require many vertices to properly draw.
Will echo what has been said here already many times. We are looking to move our forest health division away from arcpad but are struggling with not having the ability to free hand draw polygons and line features. Our teams are capturing this data from cesna fixed wing planes close to the mountains meaning turbulence is a big issue. There is no way they could tap and drag and tap as it currently stands in field maps. No passenger would last more than 30 mins without getting sick or switching back to arcpad. We already utilize survey 123 with this project on the backend (on the ground in the field) of the surveys but would like to start the process from the air using field maps and finally drop arcpad. Having the ability to use contingent values in field maps now is a great addition but until we have the free hand option we are sadly still operating with arcpad. Not sure if this is something that is in the works but if not based on online forms and in here there is definitely a desire to have this available.
Just adding another voice here. We have non-GIS guys in the field who are screaming for this. We want them to use the tech, but when they can justifiably say that they can draw this stuff on a paper map a lot quicker then it is hard to argue, as time in the field is a lot more expensive than time back in the office digitizing it. Surely it is on the roadmap?! Please give us an indication of when otherwise you risk losing users, who will switch off to the software permanently before you get around introducing it!
ESRI ESRI ESRI......anybody listening? Field maps needs the ability to draw a polygon freehand with a finger. We can't use it otherwise. You can do it with markup which does me no good.......need to be able to add irregularly shaped features in the field quickly.........
We support this as well. As a geological survey it is crucial that our field geologist can easily draw out structures and mapping features on the app in the field.
We are considering using the ArcGIS Field Maps for our field tablets, but we need to be able to use the our own line and polygon features with their dedicated domains in the geodatabase for free hand drawing. The markup tool is unfortunately not extensive enough to cover this and the lack of the ability to synchronize and export the markups are problematic.
@leighlager and @cbp-geus please make sure you have given this idea "Kudos" if you haven't already. This allows Esri to "hear" your support of this idea (I guess comments alone won't do it).
Also consider doing the same for these other, similar ideas if you support them (and haven't already):
