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Google maps based tracker app ?!

I am developing a Android Tracker app using Google Maps Api.  

I am getting distant locations (2 km away ) where the mobile app user has not visited !
 
The app user is assigned tasks to visit certain location (7 - 10 places)  for picking orders.

What would be ideal time gap to send gps location, battery usage impact etc.  
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I am developing in Xamarin platform.
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Hi Ria,

Please clarify a bit on :
I am getting distant locations (2 km away ) where the mobile app user has not visited !

Generally, such time gaps are tracked basis business requirements. In my past fleet management scenarios, we were tracking large fleets and the time gaps we used ranged from 60 to 300 seconds in one engagement while the other one tracked them at a much larger interval as their requirements were not aligned to real time tracking.

In your case, if you are optimizing routes through out the travel time you would want to keep it as real time as possible 60 seconds or less(considering feasibility), for example, Ola / Uber, you would see sometimes significant delay in the map update and real time location of the vehicle. If your requirement is just to register the location of app user, you can increase the location accuracy and then update at every 300 seconds or less interval.

Regards,
Chinmay.
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location accuracy enable in mobile or something else are you talking about.
Yes. I was talking about the accuracy part. Are you trying to say, on your devices even if the app user is 2 KMs away it is showing the user to be on the location?
yes when we try to capture GPS every 1 min sometimes device returns wrong GPS that's far from its current actual location. So when we plot polyline on map it shows strange far location that makes the whole route wrong.
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Thanks chinmay patel ! It was very kind of you to give your precious time to help.
Hi Ria,

I am glad I could help. Please do share the approach you finally took so that someone else who is facing similar problem can benefit.

Regards,
Chinmay.