topic Re: External GPS connected in Tracker for ArcGIS in ArcGIS Tracker Questions

External GPS connected in Tracker for ArcGIS

kmsmikrud — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 03:11:21 GMT

Hi,

We are just getting familiar with Tracker for ArcGIS to use along with Collector. In the Collector app we see the external GPS is shown in the provider setting. How do we know which GPS the Tracker app is using? We want to make sure it’s using the external and not the integrated.

Thank-you!,

Kathy

Re: External GPS connected in Tracker for ArcGIS

kmsmikrud — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 03:18:19 GMT

I apologize I meant to add post a question, not a discussion!

Re: External GPS connected in Tracker for ArcGIS

Anonymous User — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 15:53:55 GMT

If you have an external receiver connected to your device, locations from the receiver should be directly passed into the location manager which is used by apps like Tracker. Collector has implemented additional logic to support reading the extra metadata from the device.

So the high-accuracy locations will be used by Tracker but there is no indication of that in the app since it "just works". Also at least on iOS, the minimum accuracy reported will be 5 meters, even if the receiver actually has better accuracy.

Re: External GPS connected in Tracker for ArcGIS

kmsmikrud — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:07:18 GMT

That's great it "just works" but still have a setting within the app that actually shows which GPS provider the app is using would still be my preference. I don't like to just make assumptions. So far in our group the lack of settings in the tracker user interface doesn't have folks feeling that comfortable with the Tracker app compared to the Collector settings.

Re: External GPS connected in Tracker for ArcGIS

Anonymous User — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:57:15 GMT

What information do you need to see? Just the location provider? Any other information like what Collector shows here:

Would you need that metadata stored with each track point as well?