Patent ID: 7313759

Claim:
A method for mobile data collection comprising the steps of: (a) inputting one or more forms of data into one or more handheld devices, the handheld devices including a digital camera, wherein said data is inputted into said handheld device using a data collection template; (b) toggling between said step (a) of inputting data using a data collection template and promoting for a photograph and/or video and/or image to be taken with the one or more handheld devices for inputting digital data of said photograph and/or video and/or image into said data collection template, (c) organizing said inputted data from said data collection template into a record at said one or more said handheld devices at the site of the photograph and/or video and/or image; and (d) synchronizing data from said record for manipulating said data into one or more classifications to form synchronized data at said one or more handheld devices, wherein said data is inputted into said one or more handheld devices in step (a) using a data collection template and said digital data of said photograph and/or video and/or image from said digital camera is inputted into said record with said data from said data collection template at the time of capture of said photograph and/or video and/or image from said digital camera.