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Improvement
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Critical
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DEV backlog
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Moodle Apps - 2024 i4.3
Geo-location is only used when the database activity uses the lat-long field so it is not really worth it to keep this functionality because we are constantly asked why an education app needs this (and is not very aligned with our privacy driven company practises) even if the user is only asked to share it when required.
This will mean that plugins using this functionality via our API will stop working so it has to be announced in the forums and maybe show a warning popup or similar instead of a critical error when someone wants to obtain location.
After discussing this internally the overall approach would be to replace the "My location" functionality, instead of retrieving the coordinates we will display a popover with information about how to get the coordinates, linking to: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/18539?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&oco=1 for Android and https://support.google.com/maps/answer/18539?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DiOS&oco=1 for iOS
For plugins, we will have to display a popup message or toad o similar with a text indicating that this functionality is not supported anymore