Gas utilities face the challenge of dealing with damages to assets during excavations and construction. Excavation Damages Collector is designed to be used to collect excavation damages using a mobile device. Follow the steps below to understand the software/application requirements and learn to collect an excavation damage using a mobile device and ArcGIS Collector.
Software Requirements
To use Excavation Damages Collector requires specific software and applications for each field technician in your organization. Below is the software required:
- ArcGIS organizational account
- ArcGIS Collector
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Once you have verified that the device you will be using includes the required software and have access to your ArcGIS organization, you can use the Excavation Damages Collector map to collect excavation damage in the field.
To collect a excavation damage in the field, complete the following steps:
- Open Collector for ArcGIS and sign in using your ArcGIS organizational account.
- Once signed in, you will be presented with all the maps that you have access to. Search for excavation damage to find the Excavation Damages Collector map.
- Select the Excavation Damages Collector map's thumbnail to open it. If you have enabled location services, the map will open to your current location.
- Collect a new feature, selecting the excavation damage editing template.
- Update the attributes of the excavation damage.
- Browse to the map, and select Stream. As you walk the length of the excavation damage, you will see your points collected to create the line. If walking the excavation damage length is not possible, you can manually add the line to the map.
- When you have finished recording the excavation damage's attributes and geometry, click Submit.