Option to zoom in on current location/use current location with ESRI Widget.

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Brant

October 13, 2014 16:00

ESRI widget is great, but it would be nice to be able to turn on a locator which would zoom to your current location on the map when adding a record with the widget. I would also like the option to switch basemaps when using the ESRI widget, but I'll dig into that with another post. Thanks!

Update (5/25/16):

iForm now allows switching of basemaps and has a locator feature, however it does not automatically zoom to your location. I would like to see the ESRI Widget default to a users location, rather than somewhere in Kansas... The crosshairs are also very difficult to see when viewing aerial imagery, so maybe the color could change depending on which basemap is in use.

It would also be cool if we had an option in the form builder to set the default basemap to aerial imagery.

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LUdo November 05, 2014 23:37

This would be an amazing feature to allow for increased accuracy and saved time by being able to find and record your location with the simple push of a button.

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Mike Klaus November 07, 2014 22:32

This is a much needed feature for the ESRI Widget. Having to pan and zoom from a global extent for each new record is much too time consuming.

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Brant February 09, 2015 22:36

Panning and zooming to add a record is time consuming, the ability to zoom to your current location and add a record would be an immeasurable improvement to the ESRI Widget.

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Will Anderson February 15, 2015 15:20

Agreed. It would greatly help efficiency and accuracy.

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Jacob Shapley April 08, 2015 16:34

Absolutely. Would like to see something like flashing blue dot, with arrow showing direction of travel/heading.

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Micah Callough August 30, 2015 23:57

Agreed this would be very helpful.

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Bill Spiking December 11, 2015 14:29

I was very excited to see in the release notes for 8.5 that the map interface had been updated, but greatly disappointed when I noticed that this functionality is still missing. The new aerial basemap is nice, but I'd much prefer having an option to collect at my current location. The little "target" symbol needs to go or be a secondary option for collecting with the map. I feel like this keeps getting overlooked, when it's a standard feature in most mapping apps.

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Permanently deleted user July 08, 2019 18:53

Hi Folks,

We are working on this in the next iOS and Android releases. For new records we will be zooming to your current location at the same scale as the current location element does today.

We would like to get feedback if you change the location of an existing record by selecting it from the map view. Should we zoom to your current location or should we zoom to the location of the esri widget for that particular record?

Thanks for your help in advance and we will bring this long time request to life.

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Lea Ronne July 08, 2019 19:23

If I understand you correctly you mean entering a record already created with a selected point and if you go back into it whether it zooms to that point or to your current location? Its been a while since I used esri widget because it just wasn't functional for us as it can only be on the parent form it didn't work on a subform. If that has changed I would be very interested to know. Anyway I would say that it should zoom to the selected point but allow you to pan it to your location using the cross-hairs showing where you are in relation to the selected point.

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Brant July 09, 2019 17:50

I agree with Lea I think.

If the the record is ever opened for editing, I'd like to see it zoom to the original submitted location for that record, but have the ability to edit the location on the map if desired. A button to zoom to current location would still be a good option, in case the user would like to change the location to where they are currently.

I'm also wondering if it will be possible to parse out the latitude and longitude from the ESRI widget and populate into another element? We still rely on the location element to make this happen, but having the ESRI widget and Location widget in a single form is a bit redundant. Handy to have the lat long to build links for google maps, etc.

Lastly, I'd still love to see an option to default to aerial imagery if possible.

Thanks for digging into this request!

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Permanently deleted user July 22, 2019 18:00

Hi Lea and Brant,

Appreciate your feedback we will put the crosshairs where the existing esri element latitude longitude is located and allow you to move from there.

Brant to parse our the information from Esri widget I did try this using esri_element_name.latitude and esri_element_name.longitude and it worked but it took some time for the data to load into the form. I will chat with our development team here on making this work well.

In terms of defaulting imagery, this could be a page-level attribute that we have recently added just like Map Priority or Map Top Location Enabled.

Thanks again for the feedback here!

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Brant July 29, 2019 20:53

Thanks Ben, I'll check out the variables and possible page level stuff that you mentioned. Appreciate you pushing for improved functionality of the lat long variables with the development team also. Looking forward to a future update!

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Permanently deleted user August 12, 2019 14:30

Hey Folks.

This functionality to zoom to your current location will be available here in the Android 8.12 Release. It will be available in beta here shortly. Follow the release notes to stay tuned - https://iformbuilder.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360031709571

Thanks - Ben

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