Sending an SMS Locator

Question

Hi,

Is there a way to enter a phone number on a survey, then press a button that sends an SMS to that phone number, that if the recipient replies to, sends back their location (i.e. in lat/long)?

Looking for a functionality like this:

https://training.caltopo.com/all_users/team-accounts/sms

With this feature, you can quickly send a text that allows the recipient of that text to share their location on your CalTopo map.

Assuming that person has a cell signal and a gps-capable phone can open a link that they receive in a text and send their location to a saved CalTopo map. Then anyone viewing that map can see the location of the user.

SMSP · Answer

Thanks for the reply! Will study this a bit and get back with a response

JeffSilberberg · Answer

Sending the initial message should be easy using the Web Hooks feature to interface with an application to send the initial URL invite.   The URL based Web application looks like it uses HTML5 functionality to capture the LAT/LON (http://diveintohtml5.info/geolocation.html)  Then when you submit the page the server application would need to either send a transaction through geoEvent or Velocity, or use the Rest API functionality to update the Feature Layer.