| Benefits of Mobile GIS |
 Increased Productivity due to less driving |
Save travelling to the office
Mobile GIS improves the bottom line of field operations by reducing or even eliminating the time spent travelling between the office and a remote job site
With no time wasted travelling to the office, the field crew literally has more hours to spend doing the required tasks
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| Increased Flexibility |
If an emergency assignment comes into headquarters, it can be forwarded electronically to a crew, which can respond immediately because it has direct access to any map, drawing or schematic it may need to perform a task |
| Improved Accuracy of Data |
Mobile GIS extends enterprise GIS rules to the field. If a technician makes an error in data entry, the mobile GIS will catch it on the spot so the technician can correct the mistake immediately |
| Access to Relevant Datasets |
The mobile device's ability to know precisely where it is enables it to automatically retrieve more relevant datasets. For example, a utility technician arriving at the site of an outage wouldn't have to search through a menu of addresses or serial numbers to find the section of the electrical network map relating to the problem |
| Smarter Decision Making |
Because field workers are updating information in the field, the enterprise is always working on completely up-to-date information. With mobile GIS, users are getting more done and making better decisions in the field and office, because everyone in the organisation is working from up- to-date information |
| Improved Customer Care |
With completely up-to-date information, a dispatcher or customer-service representative knows what's being accomplished in the field and the knowledge can be passed along to customers, resulting in improved customer satisfaction |
| Enhance Field Worker Safety |
You can safeguard the physical wellbeing of field crews by sending them to a job site with accurate information regarding the location and status of every wire, pipe and valve they will encounter. You can also continuously track their location |
| Enable Spatial Definition of Data |
One of the biggest uses of mobile GIS is to take existing data into the field to update it onsite. At some point, the data must be loaded back into the enterprise, and this requires a spatial identifier. The location of each feature serves as the tag that links the updated attributes with the original data in the enterprise GIS |
| Navigation to a Feature |
A technician can't update attributes of a feature if the feature can't be found in the field. Mobile GIS applications provide navigation capabilities to varying degrees of sophistication. This could vary from a simple map-viewing capability allowing users to display their locations directly on a map, to sophisticated routing that provides turn-by-turn instructions for a street network to reach a designated spot
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