Best way to Caputure Multiple photo location for survey points

[DamianSmith]

When capturing survey points in Survey 123 is there a way to capture individual photos geolocation attributes? We attempting to use Survey 123 for wildland fire fuels monitoring but would like to ensure that were apple to capture individual photo location data possibly without having to individually enter each location, not really practice. We have the main point but would like those photos georeference so it can potentially be pulled into a story map

[IsmaelChivite]

Hi. Here are some ideas:

• Outputting the X,Y coordinates from the EXIF of the photo as attributes. This is described in more detail in thehttps://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2017/12/12/working-with-exif-image-metadata-in-surv... blog post. With this approach, the X Y will end up as attributes of your survey. You will need to create an event table later to see the location of the photos. You can also get the compass value from the EXIF to rotate the symbols in the map accordingly to the direction in which the photo was taken. 
• If your survey only has one photo question, then you can even calculate the geopoint question with the XY values from your photo. That is: you put your geopoint question in read-only mode and then calculate its value based on the XY coordinates from the photo. A bit on calculating geopoints at https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2016/06/08/calculations-on-geopoints 
• If you rather want to allow the end user to capture multiple photos, you can include a repeat within your survey and then add the image question, along with a geopoint and the corresponding calculation into the repeat. A bit more about things you can do with repeats here: https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2020/04/09/survey123-tricks-of-the-trade-repeats 

If you use calculations to set the geometry of a geopoint question, you will have your photos in the map right away. If instead you keep the XY coordinates as attributes, you will need an extra step to create an event layer before you can see the photos in the map.  Either method will work. The key is to use the EXIF as shown above to extract the true XY coordinates of each photo.

[DamianSmith]

I'm including multiple photo questions as you point out they will be end-user submission. We have a minimum of 4 photos from each cardinal direction around the central survey point. Additionally, we have photos based on presence/absence responses of different categories such as  Cultural resources, Invasive species, and any species habitat of concern. These are all for monitoring purpose, I'm currently in the processing of editing the survey. What would be the best way to go about editing the image questions to set the repeats and geo point calculations. These survey responses will be recording using iOS or Andriod Devices. Would it be best to make the schema edits in the desktop application?

[IsmaelChivite]

If you go with repeats, you definitively need to use Survey123 Connect. Use Connect to create your form, with all the repeats and rules to hide and show questions, and then let Connect create the feature service and related layers for you.

Be careful with this one: BUG-000113652 because you will run into it almost for sure!  iOS and Android are both supported by the Survey123 field app, so whatever you author in Connect you will be able to handle from the device.

[DamianSmith]

Thanks  I'll give the repeats a go and create a test copy of my survey.  The repeats seem to be my best solution available to me, as I've already established multiple rules to make the process transparent to our users  

[RobertGeitner]

Seeing as you can capture geopoints in repeats now, is there anyway I can set it that as soon as you select a repeat, it will automatically capture your XY location without having to open up the map and drop a pin?  When I have a geopoint question in my repeat, it is great because it saves it in the metadata, I just didn't want to have my users actually have to open up the map to drop a pin.