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.
Adding our use case for freehand drawing, we conduct vegetation surveys from helicopters where being able to quickly and accurately digitize polygon and polyline features is a requirement. Currently Field Maps and Survey123 do not meet our needs as they don't allow freehand/stylus based drawing. We are still entirely reliant on using ArcPad (now many years retired...) for these projects since it contains this feature.
I strongly support this feature request.Our geologists frequently need to map geological outcrops in the field, and the current method of placing individual vertices results in polygons that are overly angular and don’t accurately represent the natural, rounded shapes of these features.
Because many outcrops are inaccessible for walking around, they can't use streaming or GPS tracking to capture boundaries. A freehand drawing tool—similar to what’s available in ArcGIS Pro—would allow them to sketch more realistic shapes directly on the map, improving both the accuracy and usability of the data collected.
This enhancement would be a game-changer for geological fieldwork and other disciplines that require mapping of irregular, organic features.
Yes! Please allow freehand line drawing so lines are recorded to a feature class instead of Markup. My field team of geologists need to draw lines freehand in a way that can be backed up on AGOL. It's too cumbersome and time consuming for many of them, me included, to draw lines vertex by vertex in the field. Some "fair weather days" are 100 degrees, and mere seconds matter when your iPad is giving you temperature warnings and your sweat is dripping on the touch screen. In the office, it's too cumbersome to export every field worker's Markups to get them synchronized and saved. FYI, our cybersecurity protocols prevent device-to-device sharing...otherwise sharing Markups might not need manual exporting. Freehand line drawing into a feature class would save all of us a lot of trouble and only then will Field Maps be absolutely perfect for us. Thank you!
