ArcGIS Collector

First off, I’m a biologist and I use this app everyday for work on a large construction project. On any given day 20+ people log their daily activity using this app, for the most part it is incredibly effective and is instrumental in organizing all the relevant information we need to do our job. Although I’m not the one analyzing/compiling all of this data, I can imagine how this app has saved countless hours of work. All of this comes with quite a big “but”, the text boxes added from the most recent update are very frustrating to use. When the text box is filled with lots of content and the phone’s keyboard is open (which opens once you select the text box) it becomes literally impossible to scroll up or down or work on the other parts of my report. I can’t emphasize enough how unbelievably annoying this small bug is, and I hope that it can be fixed soon, because it’s driving me and my coworkers mad.

I have two issues but one is on an apple product and the other a Samsung. On my Samsung the app likes to crash especially when mapping larger features. For the IPad mini newest generation when downloading the map for disconnected editing it is not showing up any point shapefiles but I am able to see them on my Samsung device.

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1. Please add UTM coordinates. It is universal in my field. At this point, I need to take waypoints on another device. There are thousands of people that use UTMs for their data. If you want professionals to use this program, this is essential. 2. When looking at the map and clicking on an area, a drop down menu tells me what types of lines are there. I know what type of lines they are by looking at it; this is not the most important information. I want to see what I named it. To see that, I have to click on each one, scroll down and find the subfield. It is extremely inefficient and makes the maps much harder to read. 3. When making a polygon, I want to be able to pause streaming, go onto another feature to map, come back and continue streaming from the same spot.

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Don’t do it if they’re all in the same feature service. They need to be separate or Collector will error out on all layers. I also can’t get Sync to work. Fails every time :-/ promising though— way better UI than Classic. Map Areas is really picky on base maps; some will cause “generating...” forever with no hint as to what’s wrong even though AGOL map settings show the map area is ready.

Much cleaner UI than Collector Classic. This release is built on the new ArcGIS runtime libraries, which should provide a great foundation going forward! For higher accuracy data collection, this release works great with external Bluetooth receivers including the Bad Elf GNSS Surveyor.