Over the past two years, the Town of Concord, MA deployed Field Maps for data collection and asset management applications across multiple departments. These projects include catch basin cleaning operations for MS4 compliance in Public Works, to developing an asset management and tracking program for the Natural Resources Commission, to quarterly hydrant flushing operations with the Water department.
Field Maps has proved to be an invaluable tool for jump-starting and recovering stalled data collection projects, and has become integral to how we as a GIS team serve our colleagues in their day to day operations. In this presentation we will offer insights on deploying and maintaining Field Maps solutions for a wide array of departments. We will demonstrate the customizations we utilize in Field Maps like auto-calculated fields and logic trees for field visibility, and explain how we integrate Field Maps with other Esri and third-party applications. We will cover the benefits and challenges of the application when working across knowledge and skill bases, discuss best practices for updating solutions built from scratch, and reflect on developing custom solutions as a stand-alone GIS team within a municipality.
