Visit Suggestions - How do they work?

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Hi guys,

I am using Dawarich for a few weeks now and am quite happy with it. The android app is tracking my movements and my local photon instance allows for reverse geodecoding. The only thing that I am not able to get working is visit suggestions. I believe that it is simply something I do not understand about them, but I wanted to make sure that I do the right things.

my assumptions:

  • I need to create “areas” that I want to be suggested as visits
  • when I arrive at this area (indicated by the finish flag) the system is considering this as a visit
  • when I execute the script at the bottom of this page Visits and Places | Dawarich the visit suggestion algorithm runs for all points in the defined date range

Regardless of all the above points I am not able to get visit suggestions even though I have cases where the “finish flag” is exactly within an area:

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Anybody able to tell me what I am doing wrong? Are the visit suggestions working the way I am expecting them to do? Is there any setting I need to apply?

In the settings area the visit suggestions are enabled:

<<<< not ablel to put a second screenshot here because of limits, but the settings show “Visit Suggestions => Disable”, which means those are currently enabled >>>>

I am out of ideas, I hope it is simply something I am missing.

Thanks!

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Not sure what I did, but know Dawarich is suggesting me visits. Is there a reliable way to “recalculate” visits for earlier dates? The command on the page mentioned above does not seem to work.

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I think I know what I did: I actually changed the accuracy of the GPS signal in the Dawarich android app. Is it possible that Dawarich ignores waypoints that have a low level of accuracy even though the visit is “matched”?

This would basically explain why older waypoints are still not working.

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low level accuracy isnt being accounted for during visits suggestion.

The job is running nightly, clustering points in same place and time and building a visit from them. If the cluster is in a user defined area, an area visit will be created. If there is no area or place, a reverse geocoding api will be queried to get one or multiple possible names for the visit

There will be some changes to the system this summer, to make it more reliable, too

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Thanks for your feedback!

Not sure then why suggestions are working now, but most likely we won’t find out :slight_smile: But topic closed then.