Tracker for ArcGIS now available with ArcGIS Online

[JeffShaner]

We are excited to announce the release of Tracker for ArcGIS and the new location tracking capability with ArcGIS Online. For our official release announcement and new capabilities within this release, please read our official announcement on the ArcGIS Blog Site:

What’s New in Tracker for ArcGIS (December 2019) 

[ClayDonaldsonSWCA]

Is there details on licensing available? Cost per user? Cost per organization?

[JeffShaner]

Tracker is a premium app meaning that there is a cost per user. The premium app licensing can be applied to any user type (including a Viewer). There are no additional costs for the organization. Tracker uses a new data store and we do NOT charge for feature storage credits either. 

[JamieLambert]

Hi Jeff Shaner‌,

Good news! Are you able to tell me which Privilege/s is required to enable location tracking for the Organisation? Also the Privilege required to to view the tracks of others and to use the Track Viewer web app? I assume it is the same..? I would like to know if this Privilege can be added to a custom role rather that require the default Administrator role. Thanks.

Jamie.

[Kylie]

Hi Jamie - You'll find that info in the Tracker requirements: Requirements—Tracker for ArcGIS | Documentation 

[JamieLambert]

Thanks for the link Kylie Donia‌. In summary, to enable and manage tracking is the privilege to manage utility service settings and to create and share track views is the default Admin role.

Anything that requires the default Admin role is VERY frustrating. It would be good for Esri to create a role that would replace the requirement of the default Admin role in these cases. I'm sure I don't work for the only company that has that role tightly locked down. I don't need to manage credits or marketplace subscriptions, but managing Tracker would have been useful. I have some chance of getting a custom role created and zero chance of getting an Admin role.

My excitement over Tracker for ArcGIS Online has been brief. Its over now.

[Anonymous User]

Hi Jamie,

We understand  your frustration with this and are planning to support creating and managing track views based on a privilege. This privilege would be an administrative privilege that could be assigned to a custom role. We still need to sort out some technical details though.

What is your role in your organization? Which privileges do you currently have?

[JamieLambert]

Hi Aaron,

That would be great. I have a custom role that has several Admin privileges, mainly to do with managing members and data/content. We have Org sites that are global and regional, involving may different parts of the business. Even if we would allow more access to Admin roles, it wouldn't be practical to have so many Admins per Org to do what should be standard workflows. In my opinion there are too many useful privileges tied up in the default Admin role. The concept of a 'Site' Admin (not a Viewer or Creator role) for managing licensing, credits, subscriptions, etc. and a 'Content' Admin for managing members, data, etc. would make more sense. For small companies this may not be an issue, though I expect all larger companies share these frustrations.

I would be more than happy to chat further in more detail. Thanks.

Jamie.

[JamesCunningham5]

I'm planning on using Tracker for a leak survey at a Natural Gas Distribution company. Are there plans to be able to view features within Trackers map viewer. I'd like crews to be able to see their location in relation to the assets in the ground without having to switch to Explorer or Collector 

[Anonymous User]

Hi James,

There are currently no plans to show additional layers in Tracker. However, the next releases of Collector and Explorer on iOS will support viewing a users local tracks in real-time. So a user can have Tracker running in the background and they will see their tracks when using a map in Explorer or collector.

[JamesCunningham5]

Thanks Aaron!

Also, are there any plans for an option to utilize external GPS units as a source? 

[Anonymous User]

This actually works today, but the extra metadata is not captured or stored (like it is in Collector). What is your use-case for collecting high-accuracy track points?

[JamesCunningham5]

I haven't seen an option to change 'provider' like in collector. Is there some documentation for this? 

We are using tablets to provide our gas assets to field crews conducting leak surveys. (for years they have been highlighting paper maps to prove compliance with leak survey standards). I'm using the tracker app and the breadcrumb feature class it produces as our record of leak survey. Using the points, we're creating a line and a buffer to select the pipe they surveyed and calculate the distance of that pipe. 

Having higher accuracy GPS info would limit the size of the buffer needed to encapsulate all of the pipe the users truly did survey. Some corners and small gaps exist that I think a better GPS would fix.

[Anonymous User]

Since Tracker doesn't support reading the metadata you do not need to explicitly choose a provider. If your device is paired with an external receiver, the internal location manager of the operating system will automatically receive those high-accuracy locations and forward them on to apps like Tracker. The only caveat is that at least on iOS the best accuracy that will be reported is 5 meters, even if the actual location is more accurate. So basically it will "just work".

[JamesCunningham5]

Awesome, thanks Aaron !

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