topic Mobile geolocation and orientation tracking accuracy in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Mobile geolocation and orientation tracking accuracy

MichaelLodes2 — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 15:03:29 GMT

I'm trying to build a tracking application with the geolocation api. The goal is a smooth and accurate mobile position tracking for pedestrians. When using the esri track widget I run into accuracy problems. The location point jumps around a lot and there are deviations from the actual location up to a few kilometers.

Track current location | ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.9

Having tried the geolocation options like "maximumAge", "timeout" & "enableHighAccuracy" there were no significant improvements.

I also testet it on different devices and the issues where the same for all off them (iOs, Android).

Having tried different applications this one worked quite good. https://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/geolocation-orientation.html . I also like how the device heading works in this example but couldnt figure out how to use it with the arcgis javascript api.

So are there any tools for the javascript 4.9 api that I could use?

Re: Mobile geolocation and orientation tracking accuracy

MichaelLodes2 — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 16:44:39 GMT

Robert Scheitlin, GISP‌, do you know sth for us? I am wondering nobody is having the same problem as ours.

Re: Mobile geolocation and orientation tracking accuracy

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 01:49:53 GMT

Michael,

I do not use the tracking widget or geolocation much at all so I have no input on this.

Re: Mobile geolocation and orientation tracking accuracy

BobCowling2 — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 15:30:29 GMT

@MichaelLodes2 did you ever resolve this? I believe this is definitely an issue that has been overlooked by esri for sometime now.

Re: Mobile geolocation and orientation tracking accuracy

MichaelLodes2 — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 16:37:47 GMT

No, unfortunately we could not solve that.