Implementing a Mobile GIS Tom Brenneman Esri
Agenda Mobile GIS Overview ESRI Mobile GIS Solutions - ArcPad - ArcGIS Mobile - ArcGIS for ios Select a Mobile GIS Solution Q&A
Mobile GIS Overview
ArcGIS 10 A Complete System for Geographic Information Web Mobile and lightweight GIS Visualize Create Collaborate Discover Manage Analyze Cloud Enterprise Desktop Local Making GIS available to everyone
Why use mobile GIS? Improve field productivity - Use maps to make decisions - View location of real-time information - Route and navigate using maps Maintain operational data - Inspect assets - Collect accurate locations - Capture observations - Record events Facilitate accurate operational awareness - Real-time locations - Wireless synchronization
Mobile and Lightweight GIS Challenges Platforms Windows Windows Mobile Apple ios Mobile & Lightweight GIS Connectivity Always connected Sometimes connected Never connected Form Factor Phone Handheld Tablet Laptop Device Capabilities GPS Camera Range Finder Addressing many use cases, across many domains
Mobile and Lightweight GIS: Products Mobile & Lightweight GIS ArcGIS for ios ArcGIS Mobile ArcPad Addressing many use cases, across many domains
ArcPad
What Is ArcPad Mobile lightweight GIS focused on field data collection Supports high accuracy GPS/GIS & external data collection devices. Advanced field GIS functionality Ability to support Ad-Hoc work flow Integrated with ArcGIS system ArcGIS Online ArcGIS Server ArcGIS Desktop Can be customized using ArcPad Studio
ArcPad: Platforms: Windows Mobile Windows Connectivity Disconnected Occasionally Connected ArcPad Form Factor: Handheld devices Tablet Device Capabilities GPS Camera Range finders Other sensors
ArcGIS for ios and Windows Phone 7
What is ios? Apple uses the same OS for all its touch devices - Formerly called iphone OS Renamed to ios ArcGIS for ios ArcGIS API for ios
ArcGIS for ios and Windows Phone 7 Platforms: Apple ios ArcGIS for ios and Windows Phone 7 Connectivity Always Connected Form Factor: iphone ipad ipod Touch Device Capabilities GPS Camera
What is ArcGIS for ios? ArcGIS for ios Application - Ready to deploy ArcGIS API for ios
ArcGIS for ios Application ESRI s first ios application! Universal Application ipad iphone ipod Touch Works with maps ArcGIS Online On Premise Content Server
Capabilities of the ArcGIS for ios Application Browse and search map galleries Access on premise and online data Search, and Identify Execute predefined queries Measure distance and area Share with other ios users Data editing!
ArcGIS API for ios Build focused mapping apps for iphone/ipad Native Objective C API Implement GIS into an existing application
Features of the ArcGIS API for ios Service Layers - Supports multiple map projections - Dynamic and cached - Bing and Open Street Map Graphics - Sketch graphics on map canvas - Create callouts Tasks - Query, Identify, Find GIS features - Collect GIS features - Locate/Geocode addresses - Geometry operations - Geoprocessing Tasks
Who is it for? Everyone! Existing ArcGIS Customers Consumers of Enterprise GIS Consumers of Community Mapping GIS developers ESRI business partners ios Community Consumers of Community Mapping ios Developers
ArcGIS for Windows Phone Same features as ArcGIS for ios App available from the Microsoft Marketplace API built on the Windows Phone Application Platform
ArcGIS for Android API currently available through beta program Comparable application coming soon
Using ArcGIS for Windows Phone or ios
ArcGIS Mobile
What is ArcGIS Mobile? ArcGIS Mobile is the technology framework that extends the reach of GIS to the field ArcGIS Mobile provides: Mobile Web Ready-To To-Deploy Applications.NET Software Development Kit (SDK) Tools for authoring projects ArcGIS.com ArcGIS Server Desktop
ArcGIS Mobile: Platforms: Windows Mobile Windows ArcGIS Mobile Connectivity Connected Occasionally connected Disconnected Form Factor: Smart phones Handheld devices Tablet Device Capabilities GPS Camera Range finder Other sensors
What is in ArcGIS Mobile at 10 ArcGIS Mobile compliments ArcGIS Server/Desktop and allows an organization to deploy maps and GIS tasks to their mobile workers Application for Windows and Windows Mobile Mobile Project Center (share project on arcgis.com) Mobile Geoprocessing Tools -- Desktop solution Mobile SDK and Application framework
ArcGIS Mobile Applications For Windows Mobile For Windows (Tablet) Easy to use mobile GIS: - Simple GIS Feature Editing - Map Viewing with GPS - Task-driven user experience Easy to deploy mobile GIS - Data access via ArcGIS Server/Desktop - Project configuration via mobile Project Center - Data extraction via GP tools Target devices: - Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC/Smart Phone - Windows Mobile 6 Professional/Standard - Windows XP/Vista/7
Windows Tablet Application App for Windows Devices (XP/Vista/7) Designed for the Windows Form Factor & In-Vehicle Use Integrated Touch-Screen Keyboard Dim Basemap to provide visual contrast between layers 28
Mobile Project Center for creating and managing mobile projects Create Mobile Projects Add mobile maps from ArcGIS Server Base map Layers Provision Tasks & Extensions to your Field Projects. Store Field Projects: Locally On-Premise (ArcGIS Server) ArcGIS.com
ArcGIS Mobile GeoProcessing tools Desktop Solution Create Mobile Map Tool - creates a ready-to-go mobile project package for use with ArcGIS Mobile - applications Synchronize Mobile Cache Tool - Synchronizes a mobile cache with its data source via map document
ArcGIS Mobile Workflow for Desktop Enabling the Mobile Workforce Define data model Design mobile map 1 ArcGIS.com ArcGIS SERVER MPC 4 2 ArcGIS Desktop Design Author Setup 3 Mobile GP Tools Create mobile project Synchronize ArcGIS Mobile Map Collect Search 5 Sync
ArcGIS Mobile Workflow for Server Enabling the Mobile Workforce Define data model Design mobile map 1 3 ArcGIS.com ArcGIS SERVER MPC 4 2 ArcGIS Desktop Design Author Setup Extract Mobile GP Tools Create mobile project Synchronize ArcGIS Mobile Map Collect Search 5 Sync
Licensing update Feature of ArcGIS Desktop 5-pack deployment bundles available Entitled to single deployment Feature of ArcGIS Server Advanced Enterprise. Unlimited Deployments
Using ArcGIS Mobile Walkthrough
ArcGIS for Windows Mobile/Tablet SDK at 10 Core SDK - Builds new field applications from scratch - Embed GIS into existing LOB applications Application SDK - Available for both tablet and windows mobile - Extends ready-to-deploy applications - Creates new tasks or customize existing tasks - Developer help and samples
Extensible Application SDK Designed for ready-to-deploy tablet and Windows Mobile applications Create Add-Ins for Windows & Windows Mobile Apps - Changes existing tasks/workflows - Integrates new business logic and Implementations New tasks Custom map layer Custom menu items
Select a Mobile GIS Solution
Selecting a Mobile GIS Solution Ready-to-deploy solutions ArcGIS Mobile Application ArcPad ArcGIS for ios Custom solutions built with: ArcGIS Mobile SDK ArcPad Studio ArcGIS API for ios
Selecting a ready to deploy solution Benefits: Minimal configuration or customization Flexible and varied field tasks and workflows Cost-effective No developer skills required Windows and Windows Mobile Platform: ArcGIS Mobile Application ArcPad ios / Windows Phone Platform: ArcGIS for ios / Windows Phone Application
ArcPad and ArcGIS Mobile ArcPad Supports Ad-hoc field data collection Advanced GPS/GIS editing High Accuracy GPS Workflow Users typically have GIS Training Using scripts to customize ArcGIS Mobile Focused Mobile Applications Task-based Defined Workflow Field users don t require to have GIS training.net SDK ArcPad ArcGIS Mobile Planned Ad-hoc Traditional Data Collection Market Enterprise Mobile Market
Thank You Questions?
IGIC Mobile Workshop walkthroughs Publishing a mobile editing app for ios and Windows Phone 7 (and soon to be Android) In this walkthrough you will be publishing a map document from the Citizen Service Request template on resources.arcgis.com. You can find all the local government templates at http://resources.arcgis.com/ > Local Government > Local Government Gallery. The map document used for this template is a good one for general data collection via an ios application. By simply loading the schema into an enterprise geodatabase and publishing a map document you can start collecting features in the ArcGIS for ios application. You can also modify this schema with your own data field to collect the specific data that you want. 1. Use remote desktop to connect to 50.16.228.95 a. Ask the moderator for your student number. Change the X in the user name and password with this number. b. User: localhost\studentx c. Password: studentx 2. Open ArcMap and create a new empty map. 3. Open the Catalog window. 4. Double click Database Connections > Add Spatial Database Connection 5. Enter the following connection information a. Server: {Leave blank} b. Service: sde:postgresql:50.16.229.43 c. Database: sdegdb d. Username: {Same as studentx user name above} e. Password: {Same as studentx password above} 6. Rename your Connection to Other to something that makes sense to you (e.g. StudentX@sdegdb). 7. Right click your new geodatabase connection and click Make Default Geodatabase. 8. Open the Search Window. 9. Change the search location to ArcGIS Online. 10. Search for Citizen Request. 11. Click Citizen Requests Layer Package (Schema Only). A schema only layer package makes it easy to apply a schema to your database using your coordinate system. 12. Expand Show Details. This is where you can change the coordinate system for the layer package. Currently the layer package is in WGS 1984 Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere which is what we want for this application.
13. Click OK. The schema is created in your default geodatabase and a layer is added to the map referencing that data. This is why it is a good idea to set your default geodatabase first. When you download a schema only layer package, ArcMap also automatically starts an edit session to start adding features. In this case though, you will be adding features via a mobile application so you can just stop editing. 14. From the Editor toolbar Click Editor > Stop Editing. You will save your data in a folder created for your account. 15. Save the map to D:\GIS Data\studentX\CitizenRequest.mxd. Now you have data in an enterprise geodatabase and you have a map document referencing that data. 16. In the Catalog window navigate into Database Connections 17. Right click {your sdegdb connection} and click Refresh. 18. Navigate into {your sdegdb connection} > sdegdb.studentx.citizenrequests and double click sdegdb.studentx. RequestsCollection. Now that you have the template data in the geodatabase you can customize it for the kind of data that you want to collect. For example if you wanted to collect restaurant information you might add a RestaurantName field and a RestaurantType field. For the RestaurantType field you would add a domain with all the valid restaurant types. That way the mobile application will show a pick list instead of a text box. 19. Add fields for the data that you want to collect. If you want to create a domain, you will need to close the feature class properties and open the properties for the geodatabase. When you are done, close the Feature Class Properties window. 20. In the Catalog window navigate into GIS Servers and double click Add ArcGIS Server. 21. Select Manage GIS Services and click Next. 22. For Server URL enter http:// 50.16.228.95/ArcGIS/Services 23. For Host Name enter localhost. Your dialog should resemble the screen shot below.
24. Click Finish to create the administrative connection to the local ArcGIS Server instance. 25. Open the Map Service Publishing toolbar. 26. Click the Save Map Service Definition button. 27. Click the Home button to navigate to the same location as your map document. 28. For File name enter CitizenRequestMSD. 29. In the Catalog window Right click your Home folder and click Refresh. 30. In the Catalog window right click CitizenRequestMSD and click Publish to ArcGIS Server. 31. If you have changed the type of data that you want to collect, you can change the service name as appropriate. To organize all the services on the server you have a folder named for your login. Publish all your content to this server folder to avoid any conflicts with others in the workshop. 32. Change your folder name to StudentX. Your dialog should resemble the screen shot below.
33. Click Next. Next you will enable feature access for the map service. This is what will allow the ios application to edit the data. Once published, you will see a FeatureServer resource in the ArcGIS Services Directory with the same name as your map service. This FeatureServer resource is the one you will use when adding this service to the map that will be used in the ios application. 34. Check Feature Access. Your dialog should resemble the screen shot below.
35. Click Next. 36. Click Finish. 37. Close ArcMap and Save the changes to your map. 38. Log off of 50.16.228.95 You have successfully published a map service that can be edited via an ios application. Now you will build the web map that can be loaded by the ArcGIS for ios application. 39. On your local machine open a web browser and navigate to http://50.16.228.95/arcgis/rest. 40. Navigate into the StudentX folder where you published your service. 41. Click on the FeatureServer link for your new map service. 42. Click ArcGIS.com Map at the top of the page. Clicking the ArcGIS.com Map is a shortcut for creating a map on ArcGIS.com that uses this service. Alternatively you could have navicated to ArcIGS.com and added the resource from there. 43. In the search box in the upper right corner enter Ball State and press Enter. 44. Change your Basemap to Streets. 45. Click the Edit button to see the web editing that you can do with the ArcGIS.com map. 46. Click Save. 47. Enter your Esri Global Account and click Sign In. If you have never used ArcGIS.com click one of the option. 48. Enter a title, tags, and summary information. Whatever you think is appropriate will be fine.
49. When done click Save Map. 50. Click Ok to the Map Saved dialog. 51. Open ArcGIS for ios application on your ios device or ArcGIS on your Windows Phone 7. 52. Click Find Maps in the lower right corner of the application. 53. Click My Maps. 54. Open your map and start editing. Collect features is an option under the Map Tools wrench in the upper right corner of the application. Pictures can be added via the Attachments attribute of the feature. You might also keep the ArcGIS.com map open so you can see the new features as they are added. Just pan the map to see new features. Challenge If you have extra time, try this out. You will add a predefined query to the web map. 1. Open a browser and navigate to ArcGIS.com. 2. Click Start ArcGIS Explorer Online. 3. Open the map you created above. 4. In the Home tab of the ribbon click Map Contents. 5. In the Map Contents click CitizenRequestMSD Requests. 6. Click the Tools Tab in the ribbon. 7. Click the Query tool. 8. Build the Expression requesttype = 3. Request type 3 is a flooding event. This is the code stored in the geodatabase. The value that you see in the application is the domain description. Below are all the domain values and description for the domain used by this field (drequesttype).
0 Abandoned Vehicle 1 Animal Services 2 Driveway Infraction 3 Flooding 4 Graphitti Removal 5 Homeless Nuisance 6 Illegal Dumping 7 Parking Violation 8 Plant/Tree Complaint 9 Pothole Obstruction 10 Roadway Danger 11 Sidewalk Danger 12 Streetlight Broken 13 Street Sign Missing/Damaged 14 Trash Removal 15 Water Leak 9. In the Map content panel rename New Query to Flooding. 10. Save the map. In your mobile device you need to close the map and open it again to download the latest version of the web map. 11. In your mobile device open a new map. 12. In your mobile device open the map you created above. 13. Add a Flooding request. 14. Click the Search button and search for Flooding events using the predefined search.
Publishing an ArcGIS mobile project In this walkthrough you will be publishing a map document from the Damage Assessment template on resources.arcgis.com. You can find all the local government templates at http://resources.arcgis.com/ > Local Government > Local Government Gallery. The map document for this template is great for a damage assessment application. It includes a complete schema along with a wide assortment of domains to make data entry easier. By simply loading the schema into an enterprise geodatabase and publishing a map document you can start collecting features using ArcGIS Mobile. 1. Use remote desktop to connect to 50.16.228.95 a. Ask the moderator for your student number. Change the X in the user name and password with this number. b. User: localhost\studentx c. Password: student 2. Start ArcMap and open D:\GIS Data\DamageAssessmentforArcGIS10\Mapsandgeodatabase\ DamageAssessmentWithFieldCrew.mxd This map document is a modification of the DamageAssessment map document that comes with the template. The field crew features have been added to the map to allow for the field crew capabilities in the mobile application. Also the US National Grid was removed from the map and each of the layer symbols were given a unique name so they can be distinguished in ArcGIS Mobile. 3. If you didn t create a database connection in the walkthrough above, follow these instructions. a. Open the Catalog window. b. Double click Database Connections > Add Spatial Database Connection c. Enter the following connection information i. Server: {Leave blank} ii. Service: sde:postgresql:50.16.229.43 iii. Database: sdegdb iv. Username: {Same as studentx user name above} v. Password: {Same as studentx password above} d. Rename your Connection to Other to something that makes sense to you (e.g. Student1@sdegdb). e. Right click your new geodatabase connection and click Make Default Geodatabase. 4. Open the Distributed Geodatabases toolbar. 5. Click the Extract Data button. 6. For What do you want to extract?, click Schema Only. You will extract just the schema so you can add your own data.
7. For Which geodatabase do you want to extract to? browse to and select your connection to sdegdb. To edit with ArcGIS Mobile your data must be in an Enterprise (ArcSDE) geodatabase. Other readonly operational layers can be stored in a file geodatabase. 8. Check Show advanced options for overriding data extraction defaults when I click Next. Your dialog should resemble the following. 9. Click Next. 10. Click Next on the Advanced Extract Data Options wizard pane. When extracting a schema you can change the resulting spatial reference. For mobile applications the most important thing is to make the coordinate system the same as your basemap. For the sake of time we will be using ArcGIS online basemaps so we need to store the data using the WGS 1984 Web Mercator (Auxiliary Sphere) projection. In your mobile projects you would probably choose a local coordinate system and create your own simplified basemap for the mobile application.
11. For Output Spatial Reference click Specify a new spatial reference for the extracted schema. 12. For Dataset Name leave EmergencyOperations selected. 13. Click Edit. 14. Click Select. 15. Navigate to and select Projected Coordinate Systems > World > WGS 1984 Web Mercator (Auxiliary Sphere).prj 16. Click Add then OK to set the coordinate system. 17. For Dataset Name select FieldCrew. 18. Repeat steps 13 16 for the FieldCrew data. Your dialog should resemble the following. 19. Click Next. The Data Extraction wizard has a very useful option of creating a new map document that points to the newly extracted data. Using this will save you some time instead of having to fix layer paths later.
20. Select Save a copy of this map document with the layers and tables pointing at the extracted data. 21. For the map document path enter D:\GIS Data\studentX\DamageAssessmentIN.mxd where X is your student number. Your dialog should resemble the following. 22. Click Finish. 23. In the Catalog window, right click your database connection to sdegdb and click Refresh. Data edited with ArcGIS Mobile can be versioned or not. However there are more options for disconnected edits and change management available with versioning. 24. Right click the sdegdb.studentx.emergencyoperations feature dataset and click Register As Versioned. 25. Click OK to the Register As Versioned dialog. (Do NOT check the box). 26. Right click the sdegdb.studentx.fieldcrew feature dataset and click Register As Versioned. 27. Click OK to the Register As Versioned dialog. (Do NOT check the box).
Now you will change the extent of the map to your area of interest. You will add the streets basemap to give you a visual indication of your current area but later you will remove it before publishing. 28. Click the arrow next to the Add data button and click Add Basemap. 29. Add the Streets basemap. 30. Click the Find button. 31. Click the Locations tab. 32. For Single Line Input type Muncie IN and click Find. 33. Right click the result and click Pan To. 34. Zoom out a little to get the entire city in the map. 35. Remove the Basemap layer from the map. 36. Right click the Layers data frame and click Properties. Now you will set the Full Extent property for the map. This is required for map services that allow mobile data access. If you enable Mobile Data Access on a map that has no specific extent defined for the full extent, the map service will not start. 37. Click the Data Frame tab. 38. For Extent Used By Full Extent Command select other and click Specify Extent. 39. Select Current Visible Extent and click OK. 40. Click the General tab. 41. For Label Engine, select ESRI Standard Label Engine. Only standard labeling is supported with mobile maps. 42. Click OK. 43. Save the map. 44. Open the Map Service Publishing toolbar. 45. Click the Save Map Service Definition button. 46. Save the MSD as D:\GIS Data\studentX\DamageAssessmentINMSD.msd where X is your student number. 47. In the catalog window create a new folder connection to D:\GIS Data\studentX. 48. In the catalog window expand D:\GIS Data\studentX. 49. Right click DamageAssessmentIN.msd and click Publish to ArcGIS Server. 50. For Folder Name select StudentX where X is your student number.
Your dialog should resemble the following. 51. Click Next. Next you will select Mobile Data Access as a feature of this map service. This is what will allow ArcGIS Mobile to edit the data. 52. On the second panel check Mobile Data Access.
Your dialog should resemble the following. 53. Click Next. 54. Click Finish to publish the service. 55. In the Catalog window, verify that your service published successfully. 56. Close ArcMap. 57. Logout of the cloud server. Create a mobile project Now you will use the Mobile Project Center to create a mobile project. The mobile project is what will be loaded into ArcGIS Mobile on the mobile device. The mobile project not only defines what services and data will be included in the project but also the features and capabilities of the application. 1. Start the Mobile Project Center. 2. Click New to create a new project. 3. Click Add. 4. Under Add Operation Layer make sure ArcGIS Server is selected. 5. In the Find Map Service box, enter http://50.16.228.95/arcgis/ and press Enter (make sure to press Enter after entering the address to make sure the service list updates.) 6. Expand StudentX. 7. Select DamageAssessmentIN and click Add.
You will add a basemap from ArcGIS Online. This requires that the device is always online to be able to use this basemap. For disconnected workflows, you would create your own simplified basemap that you would deploy to the mobile device as a mobile cache. 8. Under Add Base Map Layer click ArcGIS Online. 9. Expand Free Maps. 10. Scroll down, select World_Street_Map and click Add. 11. Close the Add Map Layers dialog by clicking the X in the upper right corner. 12. Expand the DamageAssessmentIN service and select Initial Structural Assessment. The mobile project center allows you to create a mobile project that presents data to your users in a way that makes sense to them. You can control the fields that are displayed and you can use descriptive text for fields instead of field names. 13. Click the View Form tab and remove all the fields from the View Form except the following: Collapse or partial Collapse Inspector Structure type Occupancy Building Story Leaning Foundation Damage Roof/Floor Damage Estimated Damage Additional Comments Last Update Date Photo (You can hold down the shift key to remove several fields at once. It might be easiest to remove all the fields and add these back in one at a time.) 14. Click the Edit Form tab. 15. Under Edit Form Fields, select the Building Story Leaning field and enter the following text for the Caption: How much is this building leaning? 16. Take a minute to explore the other options available on the different tabs. You can also configure the tasks that are available in the application. First you will change the text that is displayed for Collect Features to something that is more applicable to damage assessment. 17. In the lower left of the application click Tasks.
18. In the Tasks list click Collect Features. 19. Change the Collect Features Name to Assess Damage. 20. Change the Collect Features Description to Make a damage assessment for an asset. The search task, as the name implies, allows users to find features in the map. However you can create pre built queries for things that users might be searching on very often. For example, you will create a query for assessors to be able to quickly find damaged emergency services locations. 21. In the Tasks list click Search. 22. Make sure the Feature Layer is set to Initial Structural Assessment and for Feature Type, select Initial Assessment Damaged. 23. Click Create Query. 24. For Name enter Damaged Emergency Services. 25. For Search Area choose Entire Map Extent 26. Under Search Criteria set the following properties. Field: Occupancy Value: Emergency Services 27. Click Add to save the criteria in the query. By default, edits made in the field are only sent to the server when the user chooses to post them. However, you can send those edits as soon as the data changes or as soon as the user is connected to the network. 28. In the Tasks list click Manage Edits. 29. For Autopost Option, choose When Data Changes. Now you will add field crew logging and sign in to the application. The sign in feature is not access control. Instead it is a way for someone to identify themselves on the map. This will allow field users to interact with each other through the map. In an emergency response, this is important so field crews can quickly collaborate and see each other s location to focus efforts where they are needed. 30. In the lower left of the application click Capabilities. 31. Click Add > Sign In. 32. Click Add > Field Crew Logging. 33. In the lower left of the application click Tasks. 34. Click Add > View Field Crew.
35. Take a minute to explore the other settings that you can configure in the application. Now you will save your map to ArcGIS.com. Saving it in ArcGIS.com will make it easy for you to deploy the application to you users. 36. Click Save > Save. 37. For project title enter Muncie Damage Assessment. 38. For Tags enter Muncie, Damage Assessment. 39. Enter a description. 40. Click Next. 41. For Save Project click On ArcGIS.com. 42. Sign in to ArcGIS.com. 43. For Project enter MuncieDamageAssessment. 44. Click Ok. 45. Close the Mobile Project Center. Deploy a mobile project Now you will use ArcGIS.com to deploy your mobile application to your damage assessment team. You will use ArcGIS.com groups to control who has access to this mobile application. In a production system you would likely you will be provisioning (copying) the mobile the mobile projects and data to the mobile devices but this is an easy, ad hoc way of distributing an application. You can also deploy the application to your ArcGIS Server web server. There is more information on deployment available in the ArcGIS Mobile help under Deploying mobile projects to devices. 1. Open a web browser and navigate to www.arcgis.com. 2. If necessary Sign In, in the upper right hand corner of the application. 3. Click. Mobile projects can only be distributed through groups on ArcGIS.com so you will create one now. 4. Click. 5. For name, enter Muncie Emergency Response. 6. For Tags (right side of the page), enter Muncie, Emergency Response, Damage Assessment. 7. For Status click Private. 8. Click.
9. Click. 10. Check the box next to Muncie Damage Assessment and click Share. 11. Check the box next to Muncie Emergency Response and click OK. 12. Close your browser. Use a mobile project Now you will use ArcGIS Mobile to download the mobile project and start editing. In this case we will use ArcGIS mobile on your PC to edit the data but this could just as easily be a tablet or mobile device in the field. 1. Start ArcGIS Mobile. 2. Click Download Project in the lower right corner of the application. 3. Click (don t double click) Download project from ArcGIS.com. 4. Sign in to ArcGIS.com. 5. Click (don t double click) the Muncie Emergency Response group. 6. Click (don t double click) the Muncie Damage Assessment project. 7. Click New User. 8. Enter some information about yourself and click Ok. If you enter Phone and Email they can show up as links in the device when someone gets information about you. 9. Click Tasks and experiment with adding and querying features. Notice when you set the attributes the How much is the building leaning? question is visible instead of the field description. For Occupancy make sure to add at least one feature for Emergency Services so you can experiment with the saved query you created. Notice that when you get done adding a feature you can add another with the same attributes. This is useful in the field when you are adding several similar features in one area. 10. Experiment with some of the navigation and layer control features by clicking the arrow on the right. 11. Click the globe in the upper left then click Settings to see the different ways you can change the application. Make experiment with the Appearance options in the Application Settings. You can change the skin and brightness of the application. This can make the application much easier to use in the field. 12. After you have added some points open a web browser and navigate to http://50.16.228.95/arcgis/rest/studentx. 13. Click on the DamageAssementIN MapServer link. 14. At the top of the page for View In click ArcGIS.com Map.
Notice that the points you are adding to the mobile application are automatically available via the map service. Imagine data like this being used in a Common Operations Picture application available to decision makers who can react to data being dynamically collected in the field.