Input GPS coordinates manually in KoBoCollect

[nadiacoelho]

Hello, everyone!

I would like to ask if anyone knows if it is possible to setup entry boxes to manually input latitude and longitude data, in a geopoint type questions, when using KoBoCollect.

I have seen previous discussions like:

GeoPoint Manual Collection

I would like to be able to manually collect a GPS point by simply tapping any point(s) on a map to collect the location coordinates and not use the device GPS. So as an option the user can bypass the device GPS if required. My enumerators can see from the map where the POI is and can just tap to create the point. This would be very useful.

and

Geopoint collect form display options

hi I have a short survey I will email to cell phone users. I’d like to include a geopoint question but have the display not show the map or the fields to enter a place or lat and long. I’d like them to just see the option to click the location point and have it pick the location from the phone. Is there a display option I can use for that? Or is there another way?

But I seem to have the opposite problem of most people: I want to enable manual input, for cases when the user gets the information from a different GPS source than the device used for collecting data.
It could be a similiar layout as the WebForm, but applied to KoBoCollect.
Is it possible?

[Kal_Lam]

@nadiacoelho, did you mean inputting a geopoint manually something like this but in the Collect Android App?

[nadiacoelho]

Yes, but specifically these boxes for latitude and longitude, in the left side:

[wroos]

For Collect you might use text type entry fields and concat them, plus default separator, with a calculation into a geotype variable (read_only) or a (hidden) calculate type.