1. Arizona National Scenic Trail
3 of 4 parts - Arizona Trail Association’s Arizona Trail Interactive Map, which links to a description and photos of each trail segment and has plus downloadable GPS files
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2. The Arizona National Scenic Trail is an 800 mile recreation trail from Mexico to Utah. It serves dayhikers, backpackers, equestrians, mountain bicyclists, trail runners, nature enthusiasts, cross-country skiers, snowshoers, and mule and llama packers. The Arizona Trail Association (ATA) is a non-profit volunteer membership organization, seeking active supporters of the Trail, coordinating volunteers, and provides other essential services to those that use the Arizona Trail.
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3. Pioneer Title Agency celebrated its 30th anniversary with a unique challenge: Pioneer associates pledged to collectively cover all 800 miles of the Arizona Trail and raise $30,000 for the Arizona Trail Association from Spring of 2015.
ATA Setup an aztrail.org webpage for Pioneer Title employees to contribute money report their travels on the Arizona Trail
With NAU’s GRAIL (Geospatial Research and Information Lab) ArcGIS Online account, a map was created to provide guidance when traveling the trail and to record their travels which would be used to update the list and interactive map of completed segments
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4. Even through the Arizona Trail Association (ATA) has its own ArcGIS Online Organization Account, we did not have the credits to create a user account for the 30 Pioneer Title offices in Arizona. Every ArcGIS Desktop license is entitled to have an ArcGIS Online account with one assigned (able to login) user
BIG thanks to NAU’s GRAIL as we were able to temporarily utilize their ArcGIS Online user accounts to collect tracks, points, and picture data for 5 months
We utilized 1 Intern from each of the 3 State Universities to setup a database, map, then publish, share this data, and provide instructions/documentation to the Pioneer Title users to consume in the field (in offline mode) to report their travels.
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5. Overview of the project
Get a group of interns, delegate tasks, online meetings
Database setup with domains and fields to capture data in the field
Import feature services from ATA’s ArcGIS Online account
Publish data, maps to share with a group
Only ArcGIS Online credits needed to create 30 assigned users within NAU’s GRAIL account
Provide documentation
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6. Prepare Data in ArcGIS for Desktop
Create a File Geodatabase with ArcCatalog
In ArcCatalog setup geodatabase Domains. Domains = Drop down list
Enter the Coded Values list. Coded Values = list of items in drop down list
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7. Prepare Data in ArcGIS for Desktop
Define the feature class
Coordinate System: WGS 84
Set up the fields
Connect the Domain to the fields
Add feature class to ArcMap
Symbolize
Fill in all the sections of Map Document Properties
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8. Publish Data in ArcGIS for Desktop
Sign in to your ArcGIS organization
Share as a Service & Publish (or overwrite an existing service to update)
Select a connection: “My Hosted Services”
Service editor
Capabilities check - Feature Access; uncheck - Tiled Mapping
Item description imported from Map Documents Properties or required to fill in
Publish
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9. Create and share a map for data collection
Log in to your organization’s ArcGIS Online or Portal for ArcGIS
Create a Map
Choose a basemap
Add the layer(s) you published from ArcMap
Add & search the layer in My Organization
Edit the name of the layer & pop-up settings… Save!
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10. Configure the Map’s attribute settings
Within the pop-up properties > Configure Attributes
Turn on/off attributes
Set fields that are Editable or not
Change field alias from the field name… Save!
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11. Customize map application settings
Enable: prevent accidental deletion & offline mode
Settings include the ability to route, measure, change basemaps, find locations (some are enabled by default).
For field collection, turn on Find Locations By Layer (feature search) Works in offline mode whereas address search does not
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12. Share your map Share with everyone or just a group of assigned users
Groups are created by an assigned user, categorized:
Public
Organization (only seen within org)
Private
Can invite other assigned users to the group and they accept
Therefore, to test and accept the group invite, we needed to log into each assigned user account
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13. Sign into the Collector App to use your map
Enable location (GPS) on your device
Start ArcGIS Collector
Sign in using the web address for the organization
Tap on a map to open (download is enabled when enabling offline use)
Tools at bottom allow for data capture and entry of attributes as drop down lists using the domains that were setup in the File Geodatabase
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14. With add features you can attach a file such as a picture
Can setup a tracking layer to see where user is while collecting data
Can use offline by downloading basemap and feature service data. When back online, use sync to upload
Collector can only capture one type of feature at a time (point, polyline) like ArcGIS
You can learn all the detailed steps using a Damage Assessment Tutorial for Collector at:
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15. Arizona National Scenic Trail
Check out our new Arizona Trail App for iOS & Android: The ATA is always in need of volunteers to help with many aspects of the Arizona Trail contact or visit for more details Aaron Seifert, GISP GIS Director for the Arizona Trail Association Cell
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