Support for start-geopoint question

[ks_1]

ODK Collect has this feature to automatically record the geopoint at the time of start of survey, as described here:

Question Types - ODK Docs

Can we have support for this in Kobotoolbox?

[Kal_Lam]

Hi @ks_1,

I have documented your post as a features improvement. In the meantime you could also see the post discussed previously which should help you out capturing gps in the background:

GPS collection in the background through "audit" not supported anymore

Hi @weilenmann, Welcome to the community! Would you mind trying this under the parameter and see if it works at your end: location-priority=high-accuracy location-min-interval=180 location-max-age=300 I just tested the same at my end and it worked for me. For those who have not tested the same, you could do the same as outlined below: In the survey tab of your xlsform: [Image 1] Reference xlsform: GPS Metadata Test 2020 07 31.xlsx (9.5 KB) To check the data, you will need to download the…

[wroos]

Hello @ks_1,
Why not just use ODK Collect? (Works well with KoBo Toolbox).
See Constraint not working well on re-edit of saved filled form (KoBoCollect 1.28.0)

[ks_1]

@wroos That’s what I’m doing, but Kobotoolbox has to support the question type in order for it to be deployed. Otherwise it returns an error saying “invalid question type”.

[stephanealoo]

Hi @ks_1
Could you please check the discussions that happened here and see if you get a solution for your issue?

Creating a question that automatically collects GPS points in the background

Yes you’re correct @wroos, I discovered that in the documentation. [Capture] . I am considering creating a custom widget that extends the geopoint widget but modifies it to not display the maps on screen, maybe that will solve the problem. Or what other ideas do you have?

Regards,
Stephane

[ks_1]

This doesn’t seem to work, it just shows a normal GPS record button as usual. The ‘background’ appearance seems to have no effect.

[wroos]

Maybe just working in SurveyCTO
https://docs.surveycto.com/02-designing-forms/01-core-concepts/03j.field-types-geopoint.html

[stephanealoo]

@ks_1
Did you go through the entire discussion to the tail end?

[ks_1]

@stephanealoo are you talking about the ‘audit’ question which was suggested?
Yes that does work but it creates a separate audit.csv file and does not come as part of the instance submission.

[stephanealoo]

HI @ks_1
Yes, that is what I was referencing, i.e. audit, I believe that this is the only approach that would meet the minimum threshold regarding ethics for recording GPS coordinates when collecting data,

As @wroos had pointed out, similar to the discussions I had shared, the background would work on the SurveyCTO

@wroos

Maybe just working in SurveyCTO

Stephane

[Kal_Lam]

@ks_1, @wroos please be informed that the start-geopoint metadata question is now supported with KoboToolbox:

Is the “start-geopoint” feature supported right now for Kobotoolbox?

Welcome to the community, @nejad! Please be informed that this metadata question type is supported with KoboToolbox. FYI, you could test this sample XLSForm: start-geopoint.xlsx (9.6 KB) However, please be informed that you will need to activate your GPS while collecting data. Else the metadata question type may not work as expected.

[ks_1]

Thanks @Kal_Lam!