Need to create line features in the field? Grab a tablet, the Collector App for ArcGIS supports point, lines and polygon creation and editing. Wait, but what about connectivity? If the lines are created on a touch screen device they are going to be as accurate as…well as drawing things with your finger, right? No worries. If you have ArcGIS for Desktop Standard, you have the Snap tool available to you, which will help you out. Once you’re done making your field additions, you can bring the data back into Desktop and run Snap to ensure coincidence of features. You could just consider it the most useful markup method ever. (!)
Ingredients
AGOL Organizational Acct
Editable Feature Service(s) accessible on AGOL
ArcGIS for desktop Standard
Mobile Device
Before & After The red line was created in the field with Collector on iPad. The blue line has been snapped to the poles layer using the gp tool:
Important:Ensure vertices are added at (or near) every coincidence location while creating line features, as you will need them later for this process.
Note: This method may be possible without Organizational Account/Collector but is very likely not near as fluid.