About data packaging

Data packaging, introduced at version 3.0 of ArcGIS for Windows Mobile, allows you to use Mobile Project Center to cache mobile map data from all mobile services to your project before you provision the project to field devices. Before you can package data for your project, you need to define a project extent that covers your area of interest for data packaging.

In addition to the deployment advantages, packaging data in your project is also recommended for most mobile field work for the following reasons:

NoteNote:

Data packaging in Mobile Project Center is different from using the Create Mobile Cache tool provided by ArcGIS for Desktop:

  • Data packaging is a feature in Mobile Project Center that allows you to get data from mobile services and include the data in your project. You need to have ArcGIS Server to use this feature (See the Server workflow for details).
  • The Create Mobile Cache tool allows you to build a mobile cache directly from an ArcMap document, which you can then add a copy of it to your mobile project in Mobile Project Center to use as an offline data source. In this case, real-time synchronization with the back-end database is not supported (See the Desktop workflow for details)..
8/16/2013