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Katie, there are currently multiple GPS tracking needs - mobile devices, vehicles equipped with GPS, 3rd party mobile GPS trackers, and I’m sure others. You want to be crystal clear on what functionality you need to get any traction on your request.
If you referring to near-real time tracking of mobile devices running an AppSheet application so it can be plotted into a map view, I am totally with you and can use that functionality TODAY! Your request will get my vote!!
@Peter since you mentioned automatic background capturing, are there any plans to implement such functionality? I read in the AppSheet documentation that apps with a GPS field included do poll for current location once per minute. If that’s the case, then conceptually it seems easy enough to take that value in an automatic process and write it. I do understand the concerns from AppSheet side of all the devices suddenly writing to its servers once a minute. I think the background process could write once every 10 minutes and still be a very useful tool in our apps.
I’d also like the GPS functionality. I run school buses, and it would be great to have that function of knowing where a bus is at any given time based on the phone or tablet in the bus. This would be useful as a dispatcher, and also to the parents.
I’d be interested in building functionality to integrate with Google maps so that it could re-route my buses based on traffic.
Is this going to be more feasible now that you are a part of Google Cloud?
@Peter
I join my colleagues demand about apply the feature of automatic GPS tracking and show the tracking path as line in the map view.
Thank you in advance…
It’s time to give this Feature Request a nudge up the list. Please vote AND list your specific need to help AppSheet identify what function is mostly needed.
I would like to see automatic GPS capture happen every X (15) minutes for each user. A main office can then easily see where each of their service personnel, delivery drivers, field reps, etc are at any given moment.
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