#6899 (Automatic geolocation using smartphone)

by Luc Saffre · in Developers · assigned to Luc Saffre

Résumé

This might be interesting for Lino Patrols so that other users can see in real time who is where.

@JMK, please research and to write comments so that also @8lurry can follow and maybe comment.


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Commentaires

  • 3 mois, 3 semaines ago by Sharif Mehedi about #6899 (Automatic geolocation using smartphone) : An android app with a background task can do that, I mean periodically send the location to the server in the background.
  • 3 mois, 3 semaines ago by Luc Saffre in reply to Sharif Mehedi about #6899 (Automatic geolocation using smartphone) : This ticket is different. They also want Lino to store the geolocation when a steward submits a note from their phone (I will soon ask your help for this). But this ticket is about having real-time location of the stewards automatically (the stewards just needs to allow localization of his phone).
  • 3 mois, 3 semaines ago by Sharif Mehedi about #6899 (Automatic geolocation using smartphone) (1 reply) : We only need to call, "navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition"
  • 3 mois, 3 semaines ago by Luc Saffre about #6899 (Automatic geolocation using smartphone) : Thanks for this first research. Can you name some of these non-free services? Maybe an existing non-free service is cheaper than reinventing the wheel. Any comments, @8lurry? Otherwise I will leave this sleeping until the customer wants it (and is ready to pay something for it).
  • 3 mois, 3 semaines ago by Jan Markus Kähara about #6899 (Automatic geolocation using smartphone) : I tried looking for apps, where you could pull data with APIs on peoples location, but I didn't find any that'd be free.

    So we do need some sort of an app that has GPS tracking, that sends updates periodically, where in the backend, it checks if their coordinates are inside a region. Obviously the u...
  • 3 mois, 3 semaines ago by Luc Saffre about #6899 (Automatic geolocation using smartphone) : Created new Ticket #6899 (Automatic geolocation using smartphone).