ArcGIS Field Maps is a mobile solution that allows mobile workers to explore maps, collect data, complete tasks, and share their location from the field. It includes two components: the Field Maps Designer web app and the Field Maps mobile app.
With Field Maps Designer, you can create maps, build forms for data collection, set up tasks for the field, enable maps for offline use, design geofences, and configure a variety of settings to prepare maps for field workflows. With Field Maps, mobile workers can access the maps, forms, to-do lists, data, and tools required to complete their work. Field Maps works online, offline, outdoors, and indoors.
This topic describes the high-level capabilities of ArcGIS Field Maps and provides additional resources for getting started. To learn how to prepare maps for field workflows, see the Prepare maps tab. To learn how to use maps in the mobile app, see the Use maps tab.
Note:
Preparing and configuring tasks in Field Maps Designer is supported in ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 and later.
Prepare maps
With Field Maps Designer, you can prepare the maps mobile workers use to complete work in the field. You can create maps and build forms for data collection, set up geofences for situational awareness, enable maps for offline use, configure a variety of settings, and share the map so everyone in your team can access it in Field Maps. To get started with a new map, see Create a map.
Deploy maps
Once you've prepared maps for use in the Field Maps mobile app, you can deploy them to the field in a variety of ways. You can share maps with your entire ArcGIS organization or a specific group, and you can use app links and mobile device management (MDM) to help streamline the process of opening a map in Field Maps. To get start with deploying maps to the Field Maps mobile app, see Deploy your map.
Explore maps
In the Field Maps mobile app, you can explore and interact with maps created in ArcGIS that are shared with your ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise account. You can turn layers on and off, filter layers, open pop-ups, search for assets and locations of interest, change the basemap, download maps for offline use, receive location alerts, and view your own location. There are a variety of tools available for interacting with the map, such as a compass, tools for measuring distance, area, and m-values (for linear referencing), and a floor filter for filtering indoor assets by floor. If your map contains a utility network, you can view and trace the network in Field Maps. To learn more about the Field Maps interface and all of the available tools, see Quick reference.
Field Maps also allows you to draw on maps with the markup tool. With markup, you can add arrows, drawings, and shapes to the map along with notes. You can share any markup you've created as a layer with others in your organization or as a screenshot that you can share as an image, such as with email or text. To learn more about markup, see Use markup.
Collect data
You can collect data and perform inspections using the Field Maps mobile app. With forms built in Field Maps Designer, mobile workers can add new point, line, or polygon features to the map, update data, or add new records to a related table (for inspection workflows). There are a variety of ways to collect data, such as collecting at or offset from your location, using snapping and streaming to capture points, and by copying existing features to create new ones. When mobile workers submit data they've collected, the updates can be viewed in maps and apps where the layer is present. To learn more about how to collect data in Field Maps, see Capture.
While you can collect data using your device's built-in GPS, you can also pair Field Maps with GNSS receivers for high-accuracy data collection. When you collect data with a high-accuracy receiver, the point or vertex is automatically generated in Field Maps and includes additional GPS metadata. To learn more about high-accuracy data collection, GPS metadata, and the receivers supported in Field Maps, see Prepare for high-accuracy data collection.
Coordinate tasks
Note:
Preparing and configuring tasks in Field Maps Designer is supported in ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 and later.
Beta:
While you can prepare and configure tasks in the Field Maps Designer web app to manage and track work efficiently in the field, the tasks capability is in beta in the Field Maps mobile app. See How do I access tasks in the Field Maps mobile app for more information.
With Field Maps Designer, you can add tasks to maps, providing a digital to-do list for mobile workers to manage their field work. The tasks capability involves the creation of a task-enabled feature layer that includes fields, form elements, context-driven actions, and symbology to support task management. Tasks can be points, lines, or polygons. Each map can only have one tasks layer. The key features of tasks include:
- Task-enabled layers—There are two ways to add a task-enabled feature layer into a map in Field Maps Designer. You can create a brand-new layer, which is automatically generated as a hosted task-enabled feature layer with default configurations that can be further customized. You can also enable tasks on an existing feature layer (hosted or non-hosted) and further customize the layer as needed. The task-enabled feature layer works like any other feature layer, but must include the required task type, assignee, and status fields. These fields drive the display of the task to-do list in the Field Maps mobile app. See Prepare tasks to learn more.
- Customization—Build workflows that meet your project needs, including custom fields and values, task layouts and context-driven actions, filtered to-do lists, and more. See Configure tasks to learn more.
- Task management—Tasks can be managed anywhere you edit layers, including Field Maps Designer, the Field Maps mobile app, Map Viewer, ArcGIS Experience Builder, ArcGIS Instant Apps, and ArcGIS Pro, among others. You can also automate the creation of tasks with Python scripts or automation software. See Create and manage tasks to learn more.
- Integration—You can also leverage automation software to integrate field workflows with other organizational systems like work order management or customer relationship management (CRM) systems, orchestrating the sharing of information between systems. See Integration to learn more.
- Task completion—Mobile workers can view and complete tasks through to-do lists in the Field Maps mobile app. See How do I access tasks in the Field Maps mobile app for more information.
Additional resources
In addition to the help documentation, the following resources can help you get started with ArcGIS Field Maps: