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Title: Suggestion to Improve GPS Data Accuracy

Category: FMNR

Category: Tree Planting

Category: Nursery

Category: Generic

Category: Engagement

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Ssidibe

Dear Regreening App Team,

To improve the quality and reliability of geospatial data collected in the field, I would like to suggest implementing a mechanism that requires enumerators to achieve a GPS accuracy of 5 meters or less before they can save a location point.

Currently, the application allows coordinates to be recorded with accuracy levels sometimes exceeding 20 meters. Such inaccuracies can negatively affect site mapping, monitoring activities, spatial analyses, and overall data quality.

I would therefore recommend that the application:

  • Prevent the submission of location data when GPS accuracy is greater than 5 meters;
  • Display a notification prompting the enumerator to wait until a better GPS signal is obtained;

This enhancement would significantly improve the precision of field data and strengthen the reliability of analyses and reporting based on these coordinates.

Thank you for considering this suggestion.

Kind regards,

Siaka Sidibé

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer Landscape Alliance Mali

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Dear Siaka

Thanks for the suggestion. The App user guide suggests an accuracy of 5 meter or below, however, there are few cases that even after few minutes of wait such accuracy is not established. In such a case, we allow user to still save record and upload but such records could be filtered out during data analysis. 

 

By: Muhammad - On: 28 July, 2026