Tour the Field App

A guided tour of the Felt Field App, the controls you'll reach for most when you're out in the field.

The Field App puts your Felt maps in your pocket, with a layout built for touch. This tour shows the controls you'll use most in the field: your location, the menu for adding data, the bottom panel, and the map's options. To install the app, log in, and open a map, see Set up the Field App.

Show your location on the map

Location tracking in the Field App shows where you are with a blue dot.

1. Tap the location button at the bottom right of the map.

2. The first time, allow Felt to use your location. The map centers on you and follows you as you move. The arrow in the button turns solid blue, and your location appears as a blue dot.

If you pan away, tap the location button to center the map on you and follow your location again. If your location doesn't appear, allow location access for Felt in your phone's settings.

Use your location to capture data

Location tracking also works while you add points, lines, and polygons, so you can place features where you're standing and trace paths as you walk. While you add a feature, tap the location button to move the crosshair to your location, then tap Add point. The accuracy of your location appears in blue at the top of the screen.

Tap the accuracy to open GPS Details, which shows your location, accuracy, altitude, speed, and heading. To use a high-accuracy receiver, see GNSS receivers.

The location button is hidden while you edit an existing feature, except when you extend a line, so a stray tap can't move the feature to wherever you happen to be.

The Field App doesn't record a GPS track in the background. To map a route, add a feature to a line layer with location tracking on, and tap Add point at each vertex. See Capture field data.

Add features, annotations, comments, and measurements

Tap the + button at the bottom right of the map to see what you can add. The menu shows only the options your access allows.

Option	What it does
Comment	Place a comment. See Comments in the Field App.
Measure	Measure a distance or an area. See Measure.
Add feature	Add a feature to a layer. See Capture field data.
Add annotation	Draw a pin, line, polygon, or circle. See Draw on the map.

Adding features and annotations needs a seat and Contribute or Edit access to the map. If you can only comment, a comment button replaces the + button.

Find the legend, feature details, and the table

The panel at the bottom of the map opens on the legend. Drag the panel to resize it, and tap the map to collapse it.

• Legend: tap a layer to show or hide it, zoom to it, or use its components. See Legend.

• Feature details: tap a feature on the map to open its popup in the panel. To edit it, tap the edit button .

• Table: tap ··· at the top right, then Table. Double-tap a row to zoom to its feature. See Table.

To switch between the legend, the table, and a popup, tap the title at the top of the panel.

Map options in the Field App

The ··· menu at the top right of the map view holds the map's options. Search is next to it.

Option	What it does
Share	Manage who can access the map. See Share a map.
Basemap	Switch the basemap. Without Edit access, the change is only for you.
Offline areas	Download part of the map. See Work offline.
Table	Open the table for the map's layers.
Comments	Read, resolve, or delete comments.