{"id":476092,"date":"2023-08-11T19:40:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T19:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uat.esri.com\/en-us\/industries\/blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=476092"},"modified":"2023-08-11T19:59:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T19:59:02","slug":"how-do-you-navigate-esri-mobile-apps-k-i-s-s","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/industries\/blog\/articles\/how-do-you-navigate-esri-mobile-apps-k-i-s-s","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Navigate Esri Mobile Apps? K.I.S.S.!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"undefined block-editor-paragraph\">I was recently asked by a colleague for some guidance on developing an emergency response app for their organization. Regardless of the industry, size of the organization or geographical location, everyone has to deal with emergency preparedness and recovery at some point.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"undefined block-editor-paragraph\">I have a little experience in this area since my team built one in a previous role I was in at CSX. I\u2019ll give a little context here since it helps explain my mantra of K.I.S.S. One Monday our team meeting was centered around creating a plan to conduct damage assessments with my GIS Field team. The following week we had a hurricane approaching off the coast of North Carolina and it was forecasted to make landfall on a Friday. This pushed up our due date of a plan rapidly.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"undefined block-editor-paragraph\">We knew our field team was outfitted with drones, but we didn\u2019t have a way to easily submit photos of damage assessments. We spun up a web app and mobile app using ArcGIS Enterprise Portal for ArcGIS to intake all the images to properly assess the damage done without having to compromise our crew\u2019s safety. So how did we accomplish this? K.I.S.S.!<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"undefined block-editor-paragraph\">Far too often I see folks deciding on building an app of any kind and it involves:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Weeks to months of planning.<\/li><li>Budgeting.<\/li><li>Requirements gathering.<\/li><li>Add another roadblock to show errors with this process.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"undefined block-editor-paragraph\">One of the most powerful benefits of <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.arcgis.com\/en\/portal\/10.5\/administer\/windows\/what-is-portal-for-arcgis-.htm\">Portal for ArcGIS<\/a> is the ability to quickly spin up apps that you can effectively use as proof of concept. Once you\u2019ve published your map service and consumed it in a web app or mobile app, you can keep your \u201cmap maker\u201d on standby to quickly make changes, updates, add or remove layers, etc. to the map and redeploy in minutes. K.I.S.S.!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"undefined block-editor-paragraph\">When we deployed the emergency response app, it had one editable layer to start\u2026an \u201cobservations\u201d layer. What do you see, what\u2019s its\u2019 condition, Is the track out of service, and the ability to attach photos. That was about it. After the storm passed and we rolled out with the track crews to document the damage, the web app back at HQ in the Storm Room began to light up with red dots and green dots. Bad observations and good ones. This led to ideas being generated from the folks in the room to track whether power was out at crossings and control points, were generators deployed? We quickly copied the appropriate layers and added them to the map with editable fields that corresponded to their status\u2019.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"undefined block-editor-paragraph\">I know the GIS and data purists cringe at that but don\u2019t overcomplicate the process here. We\u2019re developing on demand, demonstrating the power of GIS, live, directly in front of our business partners! The question was asked about flood levels around our bridges <a href=\"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com\/en\/home\/\">ArcGIS Living Atlas<\/a>, Live Stream Gauges\u2026added almost as fast as it took me to type that out. K.I.S.S.!<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"undefined block-editor-paragraph\">When all was said and done, we had added in 5-10 more layers and made a handful editable. We had a post-mortem call with all the stakeholders, and they were extremely pleased with the functionality and even more amazed with the speed and agility the GIS team demonstrated.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"undefined block-editor-paragraph\">As I mentioned earlier, so many times we want to make sure we think of everything before beginning. Using Portal for ArcGIS allows you to start simple and layer in what\u2019s needed, and remove, if necessary, until you have an app that\u2019s just what the business ordered!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"undefined block-editor-paragraph\">For any questions about Portal for ArcGIS or the process, please reach out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/erik-henderson425\/\">me via LinkedIn<\/a> and I\u2019d love to get engaged to help your organization show your GIS capabilities.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1112,4412,287],"class_list":["post-476092","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-emergency-response","tag-esri-mobile-apps","tag-gis","industry-railroad"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Do You Navigate Esri Mobile Apps? 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