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Give the option for the pause zone heart beat to send artificial positions #282

@Lightdm

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@Lightdm

Describe the feature A clear description of what you'd like to see added or changed.

In the pause zone options, give the option to not send real/fresh locations, but rather artificial anchor points, centered in the pause zone, similarly to the points generated when leaving pause zones. Further, it could be possible to spread these heart beat points with a gaussian, so that the data is more organic.

Use case Why would this be useful? What problem does it solve?

I often use pause zones, because my GPS is often unreliable and inaccurate in houses, and I do not want my data to show my position jumping wildly 100s of meters in all directions. That's why the wifi sleep condition is perfect, because once I am connected to the wifi, no GPS is queried, and no weird points are collected. The new heart beat feature, which in general I am very happy about, however, does then not work for me, as GPS in pause zones usually does produce bad data for me. Artificial points, generated while I am connected to the wifi, would be accurate, in all cases

Proposed solution If you have an idea for how this could work, describe it here.

As mentioned, including a toggle in the pause zone to send artificial locations. And either have those artificial positions be perfectly centered in the pause zone, like the anchor points, or have it be spread with a gaussian function.

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