[ENH] - Smart Snapping / Auto-complete Polygon in Intel Manager 2.0 (Experience Builder)

[pjdohertygis]

Which app?

Intel Manager 2.0 (Experience Builder)

Describe requirements

Technical Problem: We currently utilize WebApp Builder and are moving to Experience Builder for the majority of our creation and editing of segments (most Task Forces do not have a GIS Specialist operating ArcGIS Pro). Sometimes we draw segments from scratch, other times we will copy features such as census tracts or census block groups using WAB Smart Editor (see video series 4.2.6 https://screenpal.com/u/FcTw/SARCOPTraining).

However, there is often a need to hand-draw polygons, especially in rural areas. The big challenge with hand drawing in ArcGIS Online is the limited ability to trace and snap to existing features.

See this ArcGIS Idea for more details: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-ideas/quot-smart-snapping-quot-for-editing/idi-p/1366796

NSARGC Teams discussion here: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19:WQQU-GLBt5PUCaamNqbuPkjLTt8tsICkDpvbXmW_T541@thread.tacv2/1704468937646?tenantId=e78bd32c-e20a-42de-9956-6429fc41698d&groupId=174d5299-6549-4317-8942-e214f5c6e048&parentMessageId=1704468937646&teamName=NSARGC&channelName=General&createdTime=1704468937646

Alternatives

In the meantime, we will learn more about the snapping capabilities in Map Viewer / Experience Builder Edit widget. https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-online/mapping/make-it-snappy/

Other Relevant Info

See this video for current workaround https://screenpal.com/watch/cZVhoTVHGfz

See these videos for desired solution
https://training.caltopo.com/all_users/objects/lines-and-polys#snap ](https://training.caltopo.com/all_users/objects/lines-and-polys#snap

https://youtu.be/zgg65TmGqmE?si=aF6mLaltX16hIkke&t=100

Priority impact

p1 - time sensitive

Impact

Real-world Problem: In Urban Search & Rescue we use several different methods for searching. One of these methods involves search "segmentation". Segmentation provides manageable geographic areas we can assign to Task Forces to do hasty search, primary search (door to door search) and secondary search (detailed searching inside collapsed or flooded structures).

It is best if these areas use navigabe linear features as their boundaries (roads, streams, fencelines, terrain, etc) and they are of comparable search effort (roughly equal number of structures / population). Someday we hope to semi-automate this process (working on an algorithm with a National Lab), but for now this is a manual editing process.

Example of handrawn segments. With autocomplete polygon we think this would cutdown the drawing time in half or less.

[pjdohertygis]

I am going to remove this from the milestones since we cannot take action on it right now.