Trimble Positions for “ArcGIS for Windows Mobile 3.10”

 

This is the first blog post of many for Trimble Positions for ArcGIS Mobile for Windows Mobile:

Here is the home page for Trimble Positions

This is a link to the Trimble Positions Technical Support Page to download Software and User Guides.

Here is the link for the Trimble Positions Data Sheet

 There are a few pieces of software that make up the Trimble Positions Suite for ArcGIS for Windows Mobile 3.10:

Desktop:

  1. ArcGIS Mobile 3.10 for ArcGIS 10.1 which includes the ArcGIS Mobile Data Project Center (this can be downloaded from your Esri software download website using your Global ID).
  2. Trimble Positions Desktop Add-in 10.1.1 for ArcGIS 10.1 (think of this as the old Trimble GPS Analyst extension for ArcGIS).  This includes the Trimble Positions Mobile Project Center.

Trimble GPS WM Device:

  1. ArcGIS for Windows Mobile 3.1.0.  This is deployed from the PC to your Trimble WM 6.1 or WM 6.5 device.
  2. Trimble Positions Mobile Extension 3.1.1 for ArcGIS Mobile 3.10 (think of this as the old Trimble GPS Correct extension for ArcPad).
  • Future Blog post will have more details with Download, Install and Setup instructions for Trimble Positions/ArcGIS for Windows Mobile.

Technical Specs for Trimble Positions 3.1.1 ArcGIS Mobile 3.10 for Windows Mobile

  1. ArcGIS Basic 10.1 is not supported with Trimble Positions 10.1.1 for ArcGIS for Windows Mobile 3.10.
  2. ArcGIS 10.1 STANDARD edition license is the minimum requirement for Trimble Positions 10.1.1  for ArcGIS Mobile 3.10.  ArcGIS Advanced is supported too.
  3. Personal, File Geo database and SDE are supported with Trimble Positions 3.1.1 for ArcGIS Mobile 3.10.
  4. Side note – The ArcGIS Mobile Project Center must be installed on the PC before the Trimble Positions Project Center is installed on the PC.
  5. Trimble Positions 3.1.1 for ArcGIS Mobile 3.10 is compatible on Trimble MGIS Windows Mobile Devices running WM 6.1 and or 6.5.
  6. Trimble Positions 3.1.1 can be used with Trimble External Receiver/Antenna’s: Pro 6H/T, Pro XH/XT and Pro XRT as long as the data collector is a Trimble MGIS WM 6.1 and WM 6.5
  7. Trimble Positions for ArcGIS for Windows Mobile and ArcPad is not compatible running on Windows XP, 7 or 8 platform such as a tablet or laptop for data collection.  It currently is only supported on Trimble MGIS Windows Mobile 6.1 and 6.5 platforms.

*ArcGIS Mobile resource can be found here ArcGIS for Windows Mobile HELP and Resources ArcGIS

**See that latest Trimble MGIS Compatibility List as of December 20th, 2012 to see what Trimble software and Trimble hardware work together.