Latest Contributions by PaulDoherty2

Community - we are helping agencies deploy a Survey123 Template for Search and Rescue, but one of our biggest challenges is symbolizing the data manually (via image URLs in the web map viewer/feature layer visualization) each time. There +24 icons in the feature layer and each time we have to apply symbology manually and then to the Survey123 Stakeholder Feature Layer View. We have tried the GeoJobe Admin Tools Pro, but have not been able to get this to work. Any ideas? Can this be handled via ArcGIS Pro, json? SAR and First Responder Toolkit https://arcg.is/0SjS85  Deployment Kit https://napsg.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=7a3371cd98224827b51e4f17205d6276  GitHub Issue for more details: Enhancement: Deploy symbology across all feature layer views? · Issue #20 · pjdohertygis/SARandFirstResponderSurvey · Gi… Kelly Gerrow‌ Jared Doke‌ Adam Fackler‌  ... View more

I am posting this for a good friend of the search and rescue community Diane Ambrose‌.  Real-world Problem: Creating individual reports for field data. Technical Problem: Viewing Survey123 Reports for points created using both Survey123 and Collector for ArcGIS. The map that displays in the report is of the whole world. "I am a volunteer with the South Park Site Stewards https://www.southparksitestewards.org This is the first year for us to use Survey123 and Collector to collect field data. Our field data collection season will be done on October 31st and we have been really busy working on creating reports. We are able to create our reports from Survey123 using the Survey123 report tool. We can also get most of our Collector data into Survey123 and use the report tool for this data too - ESRI was a great help in getting our artifact photos to print. However, the map that displays in the report is of the whole world. We have tried lots of different syntax options - but it seems viewing Collector data via Survey123 may require some special syntax like viewing the photos did. We have a few other options if we need to - we can bring the data into ArcMap at season end and use data driven pages to print the reports, not put a map on the reports, bring the data into google drive sheets and use one of their add-ons etc, so we aren’t dead in the water but the Survey123 report process would be much easier." Any help would be much appreciated!  Ismael Chivite‌ ... View more

Real-world Problem: Users want to share the extent of the map/dashboard they are looking at, with other non-GIS staff. Audience: Search and Rescue, Firefighters, Law Enforcement - in particular, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency Urban Search and Rescue Teams Example: (Exercise Only) Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS  Technical Problem: These users will 1) have no idea how to define an extent 2) the custom URL scheme outlined here is too complicated/difficult to memorize for GIS staff, nevermind first responders URL parameters—Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS | Documentation  Solution: Create a share widget or similar capability as described here Share widget—Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS | Documentation. I want the end-user to be able to click a share button and it shares the extent of the map they are looking at, just like Web AppBuilder and the web map viewer. The ability to tell someone else - "Hey, look at this area over here!" is fundamental to geo-collaboration and right now there is no easy way to do that with Operations Dashboard. Julia Shi David Nyenhuis ... View more

Problem: When you want to find a symbol in the ArcGIS Web Map Viewer, you need to know which symbol set to choose and then scroll to the symbol you need. This is highly inefficient and almost unusable when trying to create standard practice.  Here are the steps I need to share to help someone...  1) Change Style 2) Choose an attribute to show 3) Types (Unique Symbols) 4) OPTIONS 5) Click on the type you want to change the symbol for 6) Choose "Public Safety" from the drop-down 7) Scroll down.... uh... about 4 mouse wheels, 😎 See the red shelter icon, choose that one for closed. 9) Repeat steps 5 - 8 several times If you really want to see how painful this is... search for the campground or trailhead symbol in the National Park Service "pack".  Solution: In the web map viewer (or I guess whatever the rebuild will be) please just make symbols "Searchable" by tags at Step 6.  Related Idea Also - this Idea is also really important. Custom symbol galleries for ArcGIS Online  We want to be able to load standard public safety symbols into our ArcGIS Online account!!! https://napsg-web.s3.amazonaws.com/symbology/index.html#/  ... View more

Real-world Problem: In disaster response, interagency collaboration is critical. Being able to share data across political and jurisdictional boundaries is one of the greatest challenges to situational awareness. GIS Specialist and emergency managers, now more than ever, want to share and receive access to data from outside their organization.  Technical Problem: Interorganizational Groups makes it possible to share between ArcGIS Online organizations by inviting individuals from one organization to another. This has been around for a while and is actually well documented now, although I still run into users all the time that do not know this capability exists. Sharing content privately between organizations  Sharing and Collaboration across ArcGIS Online Organizations  The big challenge, however, is ArcGIS Online username profiles need to be set to "Everyone" in order to invite someone into your Interorganizational Group, but profiles are set to Organization by default. This means I have to send a note with instructions to everyone involved in inter-organizational sharing, including people who have never used ArcGIS Online before. This presents a major barrier to entry for collaboration. Manage profile—ArcGIS Online Help | ArcGIS  Solution: Set profiles to be viewable by "Everyone" by default or at least allow an administrator to do this for the entire organization. This poses no genuine security risk to the organization and could be overridden by an administrator at any time.  I understand there are more programmatic ways of collaboration coming (distributed collaboration, etc), but we need a fix for this in the shorter-term.  Thank you for your time and consideration!  ... View more

The Web AppBuilder Team has done a fantastic job of supporting the US National Grid with the Grid Overlay, Grid Reference, Coordinate Conversion, etc. but this is a capability that needs to be pervasive throughout all apps. Audience: All First Responders and Emergency Managers Problem: US National Grid is the official coordinate notation for points and areas for search and rescue and emergency management. Solution: Provide Grid Overlay capabilities in the following apps  - Operations Dashboard Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS‌ - Explorer for ArcGIS Explorer for ArcGIS‌ - Collector for ArcGIS Collector for ArcGIS‌ - Survey123 for ArcGIS Survey123 for ArcGIS‌ ... View more