SmartPlan has many uses past our traditional customers but the missing piece the creation of the geo-referenced plan sheets and other information. In most cases it's unlikely that these users have a 15K need for Sitework, etc. The goal of this web App is to create an easily distributed, OS agnostic KMZ creation tool for those users. It could partially cannibalize 4D sale adoption but IMO the likelihood is not high that this will be a problem.
This app is a feeder for SmartPlan (for now) and it's chief function is to georeference plan sheets to a map. Other functions might include Annotation/note taking functions. It's counterpart in the journaling app can be used to display the results coming from the mobile apps.
Either libraries we've licensed or used or new potential sources like those owned by Hexagon
Joe Nodirt receives a PDF file of plans for park landscape plans and wants to use AGTEK's Smartplan app to figure out on site where some of the elements are. He goes to www.agtek.com (could be a new URL in future branding) and clicks on apps. He's prompted to login if he hasn't already and after logging in he see a listing of existing projects he's worked on.
He moves around the map using the traditional google style pan and zoom so he finds the location of his next job, zooms in, and presses the + button to create new project. Like Google maps he can type in and address too to find the general area.
After he names the new project a guide appears on left side and leads him through importing plan sheets (interface to show sheet selection needed, could also be opportunity to tag sheets for document management), giving the sheet a proposed scale and anchoring one identifiable spot.
Once anchored he can interactively drag the semi-transparent plan to match at the other spot.
He visually verifies how the plan fits and now it's available to be downloaded. He can also click the add sheet in the upper right and add another if desired.
Saving is an automatic process like Google docs and there's support for undo as well. Copy, delete projects, supplant projects. I can also see it progressing to where we pick a sheet and then pick another to replace it to reflect changes in the documents.
Later versions could add annotation and notes or support copying objects from the journal over to this page.
For Sheets that are not geo-referenced, Naming and categorizing sheets, Adding references to detail sheets from georeferenced sheets.
The natural outgrowth of this is to take the objects (tracks, pictures, notes, measures) and display them as collated journal by day. Those objects should be allowed to be duplicated over to the Project pages. There's also a variety of exports, viewing and filtering available (day, user, type, time range, code). This is based off the current journaling we're doing for SmartDirt and Smartplan.
12/12/2018
After looking at the prototype layout the natural thing is to not separate out the alignment view from the projects. Instead you could easily see that elements (photos, tracks, notes, measures) would naturally fill in as they're uploaded from the field. Filter controls for the user could be included to show only events that the viewer is interested in and prevent existing clutter.
Using Outside cloud services - Do we want to support that? I'm leaning towards no and working on auto-order provisioning Access (possibly as same base but different service).
Do we create a journaling feature that doesn't require AGTEK desktop software? How to we scale it, provision it beyond the current front office order scheme. Needs to be online provisioning with low touch. Current methods won't work for non-traditional customers.
Is the native format KMZ or do we go ADF and have a KMZ export from it?
Use of Dropbox in SmartPlan for file