Geolocation Services

Overview of Geolocation Services
There are 4 types of geolocation services available on the mEMA apps. Survey: (Apple and Android). Capturing GPS coordinates at the time a survey is opene...
Thu, 14 Sep, 2023 at 4:00 PM
Recording GPS at time of Survey
A longitude and latitude point will be captured at the moment the user opens any survey - whether alerted or user-initiated. A timestamp (in UTC) is also co...
Tue, 23 Feb, 2016 at 5:20 PM
Periodic Location Sampling
This feature allows you to specify a location sampling duty cycle, that is, capture location data for a specified period (in minutes), pause for a period, t...
Thu, 25 Jul, 2019 at 11:11 AM
Change in Distance and Time
This feature allows you to capture a GPS point each time a user's phone moves a specific distance and a specific period of time elapses. At the occurren...
Mon, 6 Jul, 2020 at 1:44 PM
Geofencing Setup
How To: Set Up a Geofence Geofencing allows you to set up location-based survey triggers, i.e. when a user enters or exits a specified location they wil...
Thu, 26 Jan, 2023 at 5:30 PM
Troubleshooting GPS Data
How to: Ensure Location Data Collection 1) Users must give permission for GPS capture at the time they install the app.  If they do not grant this per...
Thu, 26 Jul, 2018 at 1:09 PM
GPS Data
From the Sensor Data Table, click on the icon below to view the participant's GPS data:   The table lists samples in reverse chronological ord...
Wed, 29 Jul, 2020 at 4:21 PM