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(Implemented) Location tracking in Survey123

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05-16-2017 09:17 AM
Status: Implemented
FrankVeldhuis
Occasional Contributor

We want to manually place a geopoint and have Survey123 automatically capture a second geopoint of the actual user location. We have created a repeat with a geopoint that is hidden. This creates a related point but it is always at 0,0. 

 

We are using Survey123 for park inspections. The user adds a geo-point over the asset they are inspecting. How do we know if the user was in their truck, office, or actually at the asset? We don't know. Tracking the user location would help defend ourselves against litigation by proving the user was in fact near the location of the inspection. We know the location tracking won't be perfect. Anything will be better than nothing 🙂

13 Comments
JocelynPender

We would like to have this ability as well! Our use case is collecting species observations in the field. The survey users are always on the move, so having a "track" or "route" attached to a survey submission would allow us to generalize the geolocation of survey submissions to a specific geographic route. 

SahadebDe1

Any idea when this feature will be available? 

IsmaelChivite
Status changed to: Implemented

Implemented in the June 2023 release (version 3.18)