Our field work is often pretty slow, and involves stopping to assess and identify vegetation. We have noticed that when we stop, our location tracks often stop. It seems like this is a known behavior and meant to reduce battery consumption. Which is good, but then even once we've started walking, it can take up to 10 minutes for the location tracks to resume showing up in Field Maps. This makes it looks like we jumped a straight line, rather than showing us where we actually walked with 1 meter accuracy. This is not helpful, as we want to be able to view our My Tracks layer in the field to see, accurately, the ground we've covered (like would be needed in a search & rescue situation, for example).
We noticed that if we look at the Track View in the office, the location tracks continued to record with the desired accuracy even when they show up as straight lines in Field Maps. I am attaching two screen shots showing an example of this. We are in an Enterprise 11.1 environment for both our data and our location tracks.
Does anyone have advice for us?
We are using Field Maps 24.2.1 on Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE Android tablets. We are working online using cellular data (i.e. we are not using offline maps, yet). We have turned off battery optimization in Field Maps for the purpose of higher accuracy tracks, as recommended in the online FAQ documentation (https://doc.arcgis.com/en/field-maps/get-started/faq.htm).
"To improve battery life by optimally using the GPS while location sharing, the motion of the device is monitored. While the device is moving, high-accuracy locations are requested by and passed to the app. While the device is stationary, low-accuracy locations are requested on iOS (generally not requiring the GPS), and location requests are stopped on Android.
Note:
If you want high-accuracy locations captured regardless of activity status, you can turn off battery optimization."
