Using GIS services for editing

Editing GIS services is challenging. It requires some steps, and unfortunately, there is no single well-documented and consolidated resource that discusses this section. Therefore, I made this section as detailed as possible. Editing data through a GIS service is useful in many scenarios. I can think of a scenario where this might prove to be of use; let us take the case of incident reporting. If you find something in the road—a blown main pipe or a sparking power cable—you would want to report it immediately as you really don't have the time to drive to the office and connect to your geodatabase where your data is stored and start editing incidents then. It would be much more efficient if you were able to directly access your geodatabase from your laptop, or smart phone while you are on the site, add the incident, and sync it with the geodatabase. A GIS service that can be edited is called a feature service. In this section, we will create a new feature class...