# Spec addition proposal: location preload

**URL:** <https://forum.getodk.org/t/spec-addition-proposal-location-preload/10768>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** spec-proposal, odk-xforms\
**Created:** [November 28, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/spec-addition-proposal-location-preload/10768 "2017-11-28T21:17:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![LN](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.getodk.org/ln/32/1605_2.png) [@LN](https://forum.getodk.org/u/LN)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 11:21pm UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/spec-addition-proposal-location-preload/10768/14 "2019-07-10T23:21:48Z")

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This has been revived because a Collect implementation is now almost ready. 🎉 Thank you, @martijnr, for merging in the ODK XForms spec at [https://github.com/opendatakit/xforms-spec/pull/198](https://github.com/opendatakit/xforms-spec/pull/198).

There is a proposal for bringing this to XLSForm [here](https://forum.getodk.org/t/xlsform-spec-proposal-auto-location-type-for-background-location-capture-with-setlocation-action/20831).

I reviewed the [@TAB](https://forum.getodk.org/groups/tab) call notes and saw that there was talk of changing the action name to `setgeopoint` for consistency with the `geopoint` type. That would be fine by me. I do like that it might leave space for introducing an alternate geo type with a different format as has previously been discussed.

I didn't listen to the call -- was it a done decision or more of an idea for another round of discussion?

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