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Looking for an app that can create a standard form and capture a coordinate and photo


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david_r
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  • November 3, 2017

Have a look at Survey123 for ArcGIS: https://survey123.arcgis.com/

Easy to configure and integrates nicely with ArcGIS Online.


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david_r wrote:

Have a look at Survey123 for ArcGIS: https://survey123.arcgis.com/

Easy to configure and integrates nicely with ArcGIS Online.

Very nice but... all users must have an arcgis online account, so very restrictive


mark2atsafe
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  • November 6, 2017

I've been looking at this in terms of QR codes. I haven't tried it yet (I plan to give it a go shortly) but something like this (https://qrd.by/) will let you scan a QR code and send it to an address including the coordinate at which it was captured. The address could be a workspace on FME Server that generates a HTML form to be filled in and submitted.

The form to be filled in could include a field for a file upload - in this case a photo. So the user could:

  1. Take a photo
  2. Scan a QR code (they could just have it on a piece of paper)
  3. The code sends a coordinate and opens up a form
  4. The form allows upload of the photo

It's a bit hacky I know, but it could work. I also found a QR code app called pic2shop which can be used to send coordinates (needs the pro version) but also is a solid base tool for building your own QR code tools.

Actually, now I think about it, it doesn't even need QR codes if the photo is geotagged. Just visit an FME Server URL that generates a form. Upload the photo in the form. Have FME process the form and generate the coordinate by extracting it from the geotagged photo's exif info. Pretty simple and just needs a bookmarked URL, not even an app.

And if the photo isn't geotagged, FME Server could open up a web map interface to allow the user to pick a coordinate/location off the map directly (or even open it anyway to allow fine-tuning of the photo location).

Hope this helps. I'm planning to do something similar (if I get the time) in the near future since I think it would be useful demo. Keep an eye on the FME blog, since that's where I'll describe the project if I do.


fmelizard
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  • November 6, 2017

Here is an example that might be useful:

 

http://www.sterlinggeo.com/news-articles/2016/11/03/fme-api-service-integration-platform/

 

 

"Fulcrum, which offers a way to create custom, GPS-enabled data capture forms"

runneals
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  • Contributor
  • November 7, 2017
david_r wrote:

Have a look at Survey123 for ArcGIS: https://survey123.arcgis.com/

Easy to configure and integrates nicely with ArcGIS Online.

Collector is also pretty good! http://doc.arcgis.com/en/collector/

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