Surface Pro & GIS

[MattSheehan]

I was wondering if anybody works for an organization who are looking at the Surface Pro as an alternative to iPads or Android tablets? And if so why?

Thanks

[BruceGregory]

Been looking at this for over a year.  The display driver issue was a log jam.  That seems to have been cleared up recently so off into the attempt to load it on a Pro and run it.

[TylerLambuth]

Hello Bruce, how's this coming?  Have you had success with the SP3 and ArcGIS?

[BruceGregory]

No, the display driver issue and lack of ESRI support for the platform drove us away from the Surface platform.

We went ahead and integrated iPad and use GPSPro to acquire field points (using a Bluetooth GPS unit), then import the files as separate shape files into ArcMap.  It is not elegant but it is a solution.