Just last week ESRI has released the new Collector for ArcGIS application for Android. With this new application, it brings a few new features to the forefront that both the Seiler tech team and customers have been asking as enhancements for awhile. One of these enhancements is the ability to collect GIS data with Mean [...]
What is GIS Day? GIS Day is an annual event celebrating the technology of geographic information systems (GIS) that was initiated by ESRI. The first GIS day took place in 1999, this year makes twenty years of celebrating GIS day. The event is considered a good initiative for people to learn about geography and the many uses of GIS. [...]
Did you know that you can automate Survey123 to send an email notification when a survey has been submitted? Utilizing webhooks and Microsoft flow you can allow multiple applications to interact with each other. Check out this document from ESRI on how to accomplish this workflow here. Please email us at [email protected] if you have [...]
Recently Terraflex/Insphere were reporting issues with overabundance of requests to the servers, this was causing the website not to load and data not to be synced across. Trimble has made server improvements to the issues being reported. One issue that is still arising is that many customers are using the old version of Insphere and the [...]
Trimble Mapping & GIS Handhelds and Receivers A GPS week rollover will occur at the end of the GPS day on April 6, 2019. Because the GPS message structure broadcasted by the satellites defines the week as at a 10-bit value, the GPS messages will indicate that the week has changed from 1023 to week [...]
Have you ever wanted to make it easier for you or your field crews to locate assets that you have already collected in the field? With the latest release of ESRI Collector v18.1.0 for iOS, ESRI has now added the functionality to use straight-line navigation back to assets you have already captured. To navigate back to [...]
Cloud based applications are now taking a front row seat in field data collection and asset management. The majority of users have smart phones in their pockets and can use these to collect data in the field. As data collectors you have choices from ESRI on how to collect data in the field. In the following blog post [...]
Seiler Mapping GPS Tune-Up April 1, 2018, to May 1, 2018 This winter you can ensure that your Trimble Mapping system is 100% up-to-date and ready to go for another upcoming season in the field. Eligible Equipment: Trimble Geo 7X Trimble R1 and R2 Nomad™ Special Per Unit Cost: $150.00* *If you have a Current [...]
Coordinate Systems in Terrasync: How and why to use them In this short Tech Tip video we will be discussing coordinate systems in Terrasync. How to navigate to where the coordinate system is located and why we would change the coordinate system within the software. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMJGSI58aDU Follow us on our Seiler Instrument YouTube page [...]
Building Smarter Apps for Smarter Cities The Seiler Instrument Mapping Team partnered with TerraGo Technologies to create our own data capture smart application called Seiler Field2GIS. In the following article we discuss the how using our app will help to make data collection and data management easier for not only utilities but for everyday [...]