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Best way to store GPS tracking data?
We're looking in to adding GPS tracking data to our mobile app in order to track the location of independent contractor drivers. There may be as many as 500 drivers tracked in any given day, and the ...
Woody0 thank you for the reply. Can you confirm what is the interval at which the GPS location is collected from your feet (e.g., every 30 seconds etc). The current Spatial services were specifically designed for geofence scenarios and not for storage, we will evaluate if we can build something targeting storage.
Seshagiri-AzureMaps Thank you for your follow-up. I recall choosing not to store the data within Azure Maps as the capacity of an Azure Maps tenant wasn't capable of containing the volume of data we would need to store long term at a cost effective basis. We are still testing the number of points we would be collecting - the plugin we are using only records when in motion, and starts with every 10 meters of change in distance. As speed increases it uses an elastic concept to collect fewer points at higher speeds. The number of sample points will be highly variable based on distance and speed. The best estimate I have now is approximately 10 points per minute per vehicle for a sample route.