{"id":281582,"date":"2018-07-20T07:24:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T14:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=281582"},"modified":"2018-12-12T19:55:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T03:55:37","slug":"collector-for-arcgis-releasing-the-aurora-project","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/collector\/field-mobility\/collector-for-arcgis-releasing-the-aurora-project","title":{"rendered":"Collector for ArcGIS &#8211; Releasing the Aurora Project"},"author":3651,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23261],"tags":[107392,37881,24511,28101,42371],"industry":[],"product":[36591,36641],"class_list":["post-281582","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-mobility","tag-aurora","tag-collector","tag-field-data-collection","tag-gps","tag-survey123","product-apps","product-collector"],"acf":{"short_description":"We have been busy at work building the next generation of Collector. 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