@seewhy you are right about the audit location capture.
I just build a new form with all audit features enabled to include in ruODK and am looking at the various audit logs.
Audit location is indeed recorded only whenever an enumerator interacts with the form, not in fixed intervals as I believed. (I will have to adjust the help text in ODK Build about that.)
As for your request to track the enumerators' path travelled while filling the form, I can see no quick and easy way apart from recording a geotrace in the foreground while walking.
I feel this "background geotrace" is something similar to background audio - an audio widget that just keeps recording until stopped, even if other questions are filled, or Collect loses focus, or the screen is locked.
My very similar use case is that enumerators walk a precise path (in my inevitably turtle-flavoured case, the high water mark along a turtle nesting beach), record a tally of things (turtle tracks of different species) on paper, then transcribe the tally after completing a beach segment.
What I hear from your use case, and also could use myself, is the following:
- A button "record background geotrace" that starts a background geotrace immediately.
- New field parameters to define geotrace parameters (interval, accuracy) supported by both XForms and XLSForm standards, and ODK Build.
- A control bar similar to the background-capable audio widget shown on top of the form.
- Related to my use case, I could swap the paper for a grid of click counters to tally, discussed here. (The combination of click counters and location audit would in my case actually construct a representative geotrace.)
OR
- A form property, similar to audit, to define a geotrace being captured over the entire duration of the form.
Would any of the above suit your needs, @seewhy?