During a drought, new rules and regulations regarding water conservation can be enacted. However, with these new regulations, water utilities face the unique challenge of enforcing water restrictions.
Watering Violations is designed to be used to collect watering violations using a mobile device. Follow the steps below to understand the software/application requirements and learn to collect a watering violation using a mobile device and ArcGIS Collector.
Software Requirements
To use Watering Violation 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 Watering Violations map to collect watering violation in the field.
To collect a watering violation 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 watering violation to find the Watering Violations map.
- Select the Watering Violations 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 watering violation editing template.
- Update the attributes of the watering violation.
- Browse to the map and add the location of the asset on the map. If location services is enabled, you can use your current location as the geometry of the asset. You can also add the asset's location by tapping the point on the map.
- When you have finished recording the watering violation's attributes and geometry, click Submit.