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4 Building Healthy Communities with Data Collection and GIS There are five apps Esri offers to help you with your community health efforts: Collector for ArcGIS Is an app that is map centric and targets field workflow needs. It collects and updates data by using location, filling out forms, and capturing media such as pictures and videos. It can be used to replace paper-based forms/processes and collect the location where each form is created. It also has the ability to edit offline. Survey123 for ArcGIS Is a simple and intuitive form-centric data gathering solution that makes creating, sharing and analyzing surveys possible in just a few easy steps. It lets a user design surveys in a spreadsheet, connect to upload surveys to ArcGIS, enable a workforce with the Survey123 for ArcGIS mobile app to capture answers in the field, and analyze answers from the field in ArcGIS to support decision making. Use the desktop tool to create a smart survey that is branded and styled before going in to the field. Once published to ArcGIS online and made available to surveyors, they can be completed on and offline. The Survey123 Dashboard allows you to see who and when surveys were submitted, view answers and perform analysis. GeoForm Is a configurable template for form-based data editing of a Feature Service. This application allows users to enter data through a form instead of a map's pop-up while leveraging the power of the Web Map and editable Feature Services. This will geo-enable data and support workflows by lowering the barrier of entry for completing simple tasks. Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS Gives you a real-time view and common operating picture. Stay on top of your operations by monitoring, tracking, and reporting on data feeds. With this application you can integrate maps, lists, charts, and gauges from your desktop or tablet and visualize data as it comes in from the field or other sources. Navigator for ArcGIS Is a mobile app that gets your field workforce where it needs to be, unlocking efficiency gains and improving reliability. Fully integrated with the ArcGIS platform, Navigator for ArcGIS works offline and in seamless interaction with Collector for ArcGIS. Field staff can search and navigate directly to your organization's assets, even if those assets are off the commercial street network. It can work using the data provided, your own custom data, or both. It can also receive stops directly from other apps, and provide vehicle modes to calculate the most efficient routes based on vehicle type. Esri's mobiledata collection solutions offer the following benefits to those in the public sector working to make their community healthier: • Increase the accuracy of data collection, ultimately increasing the quality and value of an enterprise GIS. • Collect authoritative, historic and real-time data that are essential components to improving community health. Data accurately collected in the field allows the user to remain informed, operate with the most up-to-date information, and make better decisions based on reliable information. • Turn staff and volunteers into data collectors by providing them with mobile applications where they can edit and publish information. • Engage the community on progress of a project or allow them to be aware of any arising issues on their smartphones. Make sure to take advantage of these alternative sources of data by crowdsourcing and collecting it from citizens and field staff anytime, anywhere, on any device. • By taking data collected in the field and combining it with operational data from other programs, departments or community partners, the user is able to better plan, monitor and understand the problem in a new context. To learn more about data collection and its impacts on a healthy community in a real world, read how two governments used data collection and GIS to improve the health of their citizens.