Thanks John for getting back with me with the work around.
Most of my field work has limited cell coverage so off line mapping is critical. Having the ability to quickly load a geo pdf as a basemap for reference purposes only is ideal. I understand the workflow needs for field crews to maintain datasets and be connected to a agol account. I know there are a vast majority of users that simply just need to create data in the field without all the hassles of working with tile packages and agol hosted feature layers.
Having the option to load from Dropbox or google drive your basemap and then control the features collected within collector would be nice..
Thanks,
Steve
Steve Perry, GISP
Owner / Manager
Sperry Geospatial, LLC
41 Heather Lane
North Granby, CT 06060
(313) 283.0344
steveperry@sperrygeo.com