Can Survey123 take advantage of increased positional accuracy gained by using an external GPS receiver such as the Trimble R1?

[Fisher_Austin]

Can Survey123 take advantage of increased positional accuracy gained by using an external GPS receiver such as the Trimble R1?

[JamesTedrick]

Survey123's GPS information can come from a variety of external receivers; the requirement is that they feed data to the device's location services provider.  The Trimble R1does support this requirement with mobile phones.  Pair the R1 to your device and it will provide GPS information to all applications, including Survey123.

[Fisher_Austin]

Thanks for the quick and positive response!

[IsmaelChivite]

Hi. In case it helps, and to add to James's response here are a couple of links describing how you can capture GPS metadata from your external device in Survey123 for ArcGIS:

• https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2016/11/03/extracting-information-from-geopoint-que... 
• Locations—Survey123 for ArcGIS | ArcGIS 

[Fisher_Austin]

Good additional info. Thanks.