ESRI Technology

ArcPad Templates

ArcPad lends itself to a variety of government applications. The ability to collect information in any location and store it in a spatial database enables improved processes and new efficiencies. The following ArcPad templates highlight specific applications of ArcPad technology to solve government problems. These templates vary from tools to applets to forms, all of which illustrate the practical benefits of ArcPad. These templates aren't designed as end solutions; rather, they are a starting point for creating your own ArcPad project.

• GASB34—Municipal Asset Collection Form
• Housing Condition Survey—Data Collection Form
• Neighborhood Tree Survey—Data Collection Form
• Public Nuisance Survey—Data Collection Form

ArcGIS Survey Analyst

What is the ArcGIS Extension for Surveyors and GIS?

A measurement database solution for integrating survey data and GIS built through a cooperative effort by ESRI and Leica Geosystems.

The new ArcGIS Survey Analyst extension is the geodatabase solution for storing and working with survey observations from field notes, survey equipment, and data collectors in ArcGIS 8.3. Survey Analyst provides the tools and interface needed to support organizations where surveyors and geographic information system (GIS) technicians work together in an integrated system.

Survey Analyst is used to store and manage measurements, survey points, and computations. Surveyors can now manage their field surveys in an ArcGIS geodatabase. In addition to importing raw survey data from data collectors, coordinate geometry measurements from survey plans and field sketches can also be entered. Based on this information, you can define the locations of previously unmapped features or improve the spatial accuracy of features that already exist in the database.

Survey Analyst also provides many new capabilities to allow survey observations and measurements to be managed within a geodatabase. What can you do with Survey Analyst?

• Create, edit, and manage GIS features using measurements.
• Add new GIS features to your geodatabase based on survey measurements.
• Improve spatial quality of existing features based on feature-surveyed location.
• Incrementally improve feature geometry quality over time.
• Perform basic COGO computations.
• Perform survey computations such as traverse and least squares adjustments.