I continually see observations submitted especially via the phone apps with unnecessarily large (in)accuracy circles around their locations. On the order of 100s of meters or more. Many users may not be aware that these uncertainty values exist, how large uncertainty values limit the usefulness …

I’m using the app GPXLogger on android. Simple, no bells and whistles. A note about battery drain: normally when you have the phone’s location services on, it’s also trying to use the signal from surrounding cell towers to determine location, and if you’re in an area with inconsistent or weak cell s…

I should look at this. I just assumed it would run down the battery even faster but it sounds like maybe not at least not compared with google maps. I also need to try the airplane mode thing, i’ve done it before but not consistently

[image] er1kksen: That’s why I use a GPS app but put the phone in “airplane mode;” no more searching for cell service, it just relies on the gps chip which shouldn’t use much battery. I notice huge differences in battery consumption due to this, probably a 10x increase in rate of consumption wit…

My issue with automatic location is that a lot of photos I upload are from my yard. I’m not interested in having my personal address included with my observations, so I manually set (for each observation) the location to “obscured”. Surely the obscured location is close enough?

yes, most people obscure the observations in their yards or small private parcels, etc, that’s totally fine.

We are having an issue with this-- the location accuracy is automatically set for a photo/observation and we need to change it! The location accuracy for observations for one of the users here is very wide (about 200m) but seems to not be under our control. <Edited: We can change the location accura…

Only the user who submits a record may edit the location information associated with it, no other user has the authority to do so. So you need to ask the submitter to make any changes.

It will either be the accuracy value picked up by their gps (device dependant) or related to the zoom level when they place a manual pin. I am not aware of any account setting for a default accuracy.

If someone has a bunch of observations that need to have all of their Accuracy values changed to a different, single value, they can filter their observations for the subset that needs to change, then use the Batch Edit function to change them all at once. Select (check-box) the observations to cha…

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kiwifergus April 12, 2019, 7:41pm 41

There is a feature request for a “geofence” to auto obscure home photos. My impression is that the developers are likely to implement it in some fashion.

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