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Bentley Map RTK data collection

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I'm a surveyor who is very new to the GIS world. We are using Mobile Map to QC storm structure data. This is working great. 

Is there a Bentley application that can be used for field collection using RTK gps?  We would like to collect a large amount of storm drainage data using RTK and provide an ESRI database as a deliverable.

Is that possible?

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    Cliff,

    I don't know if my answer will be of any help to you.

    We are a large danish surveyor company using Trimble survey equipment and Bentley Map as our standard Cad/Gis platform.
    We don't use Bentleys Survey Tool, because we started the Trimble / Bentley Map usage long before Survey tools was added to Bentley map.
    As I see it you have two or more hurdles to overcome;
    Trimble Access data controller software has a nice way to collect attributes ( = Properties in Bentley map) along with the surveying. As far as I remember these attributes are not included in the Civil-features that Survey tools creates --may be that is not correct any more!
    Second Survey tools create Civil-features and not XFM-features which Bentley map works with. Maybe the Gis Export tools will export these features as well -again I have not tried that, since we use our own software creating XFM features.
    If not, you will have to promote your Civil-features to XFM features, and I believe, that if you have attributes/properties you have to reenter them.
    Hopefully my knowledge is outdated or wrong :-)

    Regards,

    Erik Wirring
    Landinspektørfirmaet LE34
    Denmark
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    Erik - Thanks for the response. Yes we use Trimble field hardware. I was wondering about Bentley Map as a collection tool. Updating GIS type information using Trimble field software isn't a very friendly process. It's all very point driven and the expectation is that these point won't change once they are collected. In other words it's not a very dynamic process with the survey / civil tools.
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    Cliff, Okay so you want to use Bentley Map as collection software. But then you need at use a laptop in the field.
    If your are looking for a intuitive data collection tool for a tablet have a look at Trimble Penmap. It comes in both a windows and a android version and is all graphic. I believe it is able to export data in Esri format.
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    Erik - I'm almost certain we will be using Esri software to collect the drainage structures. Not sure what type of file that would produce. So the field hardware would consist of a Trimble R8 hooked to a TSC3 somehow piping data out to an Ipad running Esri GIS software....sounds like a three ring circus to me. I was hoping for a Bentley software solution as I'm familiar with the Microstation environment. I think the Esri software is probably great. I just don't know anything about it. And there isn't much in the way of CAD support / compatibility if the client wants a DGN or DWG. The CAD options I have seen the GIS folks produce lacks any sort of attribution. It's bare bones at best.....DXF. So I was hoping to inject Microstation into the workflow.

    If the data is field collected using Esri; can Microstation map interface to that Esri data? Is that possible? Will the GIS attributes come over into Map?

    Lots of questions.
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    Erik - I'm almost certain we will be using Esri software to collect the drainage structures. Not sure what type of file that would produce. So the field hardware would consist of a Trimble R8 hooked to a TSC3 somehow piping data out to an Ipad running Esri GIS software....sounds like a three ring circus to me. I was hoping for a Bentley software solution as I'm familiar with the Microstation environment. I think the Esri software is probably great. I just don't know anything about it. And there isn't much in the way of CAD support / compatibility if the client wants a DGN or DWG. The CAD options I have seen the GIS folks produce lacks any sort of attribution. It's bare bones at best.....DXF. So I was hoping to inject Microstation into the workflow.

    If the data is field collected using Esri; can Microstation map interface to that Esri data? Is that possible? Will the GIS attributes come over into Map?

    Lots of questions.
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