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How do I create an app that gets specific location data from users?

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12-29-2016 01:05 PM
JohnManoochehri
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Newbie to ArcGIS online - want help creating a basic interactive, embeddable input app for real estate owners. I need them to be able to search for a street address, pinpoint a location near to their building, and add some various notes. 

Ideally, their input will be only visible to them; i.e. they are not inputting to a crowd-sourced layer, this is a private relationship between us and them. But there will be many different users who should be able to click on a link, rather than have to log in / have an account. 

We need to collect: 

- user-added point data / co-ordinates

- user-added metadata attached to the points

- preferably photos can be added to the points by users 

Anyone willing to help / guide / show me an example? Thanks a lot!

John M

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DarrenWiens2
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RebeccaStrauch__GISP
MVP Emeritus

And you may want to just see what all is available

http://www.arcgis.com/features/features.html 

http://www.arcgis.com/features/apps/index.html 

Any some additional options, some that you can customize a bit more

Building Apps | ArcGIS for Developers 

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JohnManoochehri
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Thank you - this requires (as far as I can see) devices in the field; I am talking about embeddable web apps (using the ArcGIS online interface) that are for very informal and infrequent users. Thanks. 

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RebeccaStrauch__GISP
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Look at some of those same links. You can create maps, embed them using some of the pre-built templates, or use the online Web App Builder to add a few more features.  All this can be done online and using a browser.  If you want to get really fancy, you can do more (and still have it available in a browser), but I would start with just ArcGIS Online option

There should be some videos E360 Video Search | Esri Videos    that can help you get started

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JohnManoochehri
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Yes I have already explored these. It's slightly hard to find the very simple functionality of having folks add a point and tagging it! But I will persist - if you know the template webapp that does that, please let me know! You are great, thank you. 

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KellyGerrow
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Try using Geoform:

https://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2014/07/08/editing-via-pop-ups-got-you-down/ 

If this is for specific users, ensure that they have a login and you have shared the app with a group that has the appropriate users.

- Kelly