How do you use a custom location source in google maps, to determine user Location. I have a rtk equipment which I connect to mobile app, and this gives me the user locations.
What I want is to show user location on the app, as they move. so how can I use Location layer in google maps with my readings from the rtk
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Is it possible for google maps to show my approximate location on maps without turning GPS on on my device? I understand it can not be very accurate but I am fine with that (even if shows location within a radios of 2km). I am having version 9.72.2 of google maps on my android device.
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Yes, if you have Internet access, it's possible via Google Maps Geolocation API and information about nearest mobile operator cell or/and wifi access points
You need send requests like:
https://www.googleapis.com/geolocation/v1/geolocate?key=YOUR_API_KEY
with information about target Cell Tower (how to get LAC and CID you can find here) or WiFi access point in request, and if target WiFi access point is in Google database your got response JSON with Lat/Lon and accuracy.
NB! But sometimes it returns completely wrong results.
For show current position you need to disable "standard" MyLocation tool
googleMap.setMyLocationEnabled(false);
and use custom, like described here.
How to show on google map when some one using my app & getting his/her current location, And i want show both location vice versa like Ola app example, user see different driver on his google map. Is i want to used Socket Connection?
On location changed, you can update user location on server and you have to fetch the location from server in continuous loop.
Is it possible to setup smaller areas with Google Maps in your own app and send push messages to the users that have your app if they get inside this area in Google Maps?
Eg.
We have an app and have displays in some smaller stores around the country. The customer enters the store or is close to the store and has his/hers phone with our app. The user now gets a push message via. our app to remember to enter our competition.
I have worked with Beacons and done this before, but now my colleague has heard that this is possible with google maps.
Solution was called Geofencing.
Yup it is done by Geofencing .Geofencing combines awareness of the user's current location with awareness of the user's proximity to locations that may be of interest. To mark a location of interest, you specify its latitude and longitude. To adjust the proximity for the location, you add a radius. The latitude, longitude, and radius define a geofence, creating a circular area, or fence, around the location of interest.
for more reference visit...
https://developer.android.com/training/location/geofencing.html
I am creating an application in Android like OLA cab. I want to show the cab's location on Google Maps, for this I need to read data from the cab's GPS device. I know how to get current location of my device, but my problem is how to get the location of the other GPS device?
Each cab must update its current location to server periodically. When the user opens the apps the cabs locations must be retrieved from server and update it in google map.
For your requirement you have to make real time location update on both server and client side.
When testing Google Analytics (version 2) for an Android project, I noticed that the Real Time map shows my location to be about 200 miles from my actual location. I'm running my project on a physical device, which leads me to believe that Google Analytics doesn't actually send any location information, but rather gets it from the phones IP address when the data is sent to Googles server. Is there any way to alter this behavior and provide my own location data using getLastKnownLocation() for example? Sending it as an actual Label/Action string would of course work, but that means I can't use Google Analytics fancy map feature to view where my users are coming from.
You can't customize how Google gets the location data (which is by IP mapped location), however you can store custom dimensions and metrics: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/android/v3/customdimsmets
Google Analytics isn't really intended for fine grain location tracking. A good and free platform for location tracking is Cintric https://cintric.com/ which will track very precise locations.
Its a drop in SDK like google analytics. You then get access to a dashboard with all your users locations a a bunch of analytics / visualizations. It supports both android and iOS.