Capturing Line Feature then pausing line feature capture to Capture a POI

[AndrewHansford]

Good Afternoon All,

Imagine this.... You are capturing a fenceline using capture GPS vertex in ArcPad 8, when you stumble across a a hole in the fence and you now need to capture this point of interest.

1) Are you able to pause the line capture process to capture that POI
2)If not would it be better to capture the fenceline as Points so that when i come across said hole I can capture that information?

Our end user does not want to capture the fenceline then walk all the way back to the hole in the fenceline.

Any help would be great

Cheers

Andrew

Keywords: Fenceline, Points of Interest, ArcPad

[ZoltanKovacs1]

Hi,

I think you can do. I couldn't test it now on field, but it seems that works.
Obviously, you need two layers selected for editing in ArcPad - 1 point and 1 polyline.
When you capture polyline using GPS and you "run into" a feature you have to log as a point, simply just select the Point tool from the Point drop-down menu and capture the point (select Capture point w/ GPS too). When you finished, just switch back to polyline tool (and select Capture Vertex w/ GPS as well) to continue capturing the fence or whatever you need...
(Same method works with manual capturing too.)

Test this process before your client goes to field, as I couldn't - I don't have any GPS to connect to ArcPad at the moment - but it should work.

Hope this helps.

[RolfBroch]

This is not a problem.
You can edit a point and a polyline layer or a point and a polygon layer at the same time. Just click the capture point from GPS tool or set the point tool to be the active tool and click the point in the map.

Rolf

[TonyCarricaburu]

I made a How-To for myself on this exact issue. Give it a shot. See image below with ArcPad icon's & instructions.

[JamalNUMAN]

I made a How-To for myself on this exact issue. Give it a shot. See image below with ArcPad icon's & instructions.

Thanks Tony. This is very useful.

Best

Jamal