S1 Mobile Mapper Application for Android
What is it?
The S1 Mobile Mapper is a custom mapping and field data collection application built for Android mobile devices by the Oregon/Washington Mobile GIS team, sponsored by Bureau of Land Management, Oregon/Washington State Office.
Why would you use it?
Public Users
The S1 Mobile Mapper mobile application provides the public with a simple way to download and view BLM (Oregon/Washington only) and U.S. Forest Service maps (whole U.S) for use offline while enjoying recreational activities on public lands. The public version of the app also has the ability to navigate to user defined locations, create Tracklogs, Waypoints, Sketches, and capture GeoTag photos.
Agency Users
Given that agency field personnel commonly work in remote areas with no network access, this application's emphasis is on the display, collection and update of geospatial data and attributes in an offline environment. Content is downloaded to the mobile device when connected to the internet then offline edits are synced back to servers when network connectivity is available again.
The S1 Mobile Mapper is designed to allow offline mobile field data collection capabilities not available using commercial mapping applications and to meet the specific data collection needs of the OR/WA BLM Mobile GIS program. The application leverages web services from ArcGIS organizational accounts and internal ArcGIS Server web services to distribute, collect, and update Geographic Information Systems (GIS) information by agency field personnel.
App News
- 12/05/24: New version of S1 released to address an issue that was found related to external Bluetooth GPS receivers and Android 14. This build should address the issue.
- 08/09/24: Version 5.4.012 of the S1 Mobile Mapper app is now available in the Google Play Store for download. This hot fix addresses an issue that arose from other updates, which was causing the S1 Mobile Mapper app to crash when enabling Tracklogs.
This hot fix also includes a related bug fix that affected feature service editing when using streaming mode. Both Tracklogs and feature editing in streaming mode now work as expected. - 07/22/24: Version 5.4.011 of the S1 Mobile Mapper app is now available in the Google Play Store for download. This hot fix addresses an issue that arose due to an Esri update. The update changed the way items were called via mobile applications with a sharing link that affected downloading user created basemaps to the S1 Mobile Mapper application.
There are also a few other fixes included to correct an issue with the repeat attribute function and several underlying Google policy update requirements. - 06/05/24: Version 5.4.006 of the S1 Mobile Mapper app is now available in the Google Play Store for download. This build addresses a hotfix to correct a Sync & Submit duplicate download issue. A visual spinner icon was added to show the download progress and a pop-up note to inform users that the download was initiated.
This build also includes the updated Agency and Public User Guides and Quick Help documents for 2024 on the Help menu in the S1 Mobile Mapper app. - 05/01/24: Version 5.4.005 of the S1 Mobile Mapper app is now available in the Google Play Store for download. This build addresses issues found with downloading Agency Basemaps as a public user or agency user.
- 03/20/24: Version 5.4.003 of the S1 Mobile Mapper app is now available in the Google Play Store for download. This build addresses a hotfix for correctly downloading user created basemap tile packages from BLM ArcGIS Online (AGOL) in these formats, TPK, TPKX, and GeoTiff files. Also, there were updates to the text within the S1 Mobile app, for example the word Webmap needed to be corrected to Web Map according to Esri specifications.
- 03/04/24: Version 5.4.002 of the S1 Mobile Mapper app is now available in the Google Play Store for download. This build addresses support for .vtpk files in the publicly shared/agency created basemaps downloads option (older .tpk basemaps in this location will be deprecated once build 5.4.002 is available) and only the new .vtpk format basemap files will be available for download after that.
- Important note to users with .tpk files already downloaded to their device: please remove any (BLM) agency basemaps previously downloaded with an earlier version of the S1 Mobile Mapper application. Then download the new .vtpk version of those maps available via the “Agency Authored Basemaps” option.
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