Hello, I’ve just started programming with bubble and I’m really liking it. I’m building an app that will keep track of a fleet of buses and show them all on a map. Right now I was able to create an input area and display the various markers with the information I wanted. But I’m having a really …

Could you get the user to do the refresh ? So set a timer so that the page “times out” after say … 10 seconds. Then the user presses a button and it refreshes ? Although maps do update “on their own” when adding new markers. Wonder why they don’t when the address is updated ?. Maybe you could expl…

Just out of curiosity here, when you say you assign the current geographical position to a bus, that bus has some sort of mobile device with an internet/location connection that detects the location?

Thanks very much for the help. I haven’t yet got the time to site and try it out, but I’ll experiment with your approach. I also found the Code-free startup course that might have what I need but haven’t purchased it yet.

The idea is to have the driver start the gps tracking on a phone before starting driving.

That’s an interesting approach, refreshing the page I don’t think would be ideal. But remaking the map it might be possible. I’ll try to work on this way of doing too. I’m also interested if I can make it work with some Javascript/HTML code. What about this CRON job you mention? I’m not familiar w…

Are you certain that the map doesn’t already auto update? I did a small experiment, using two edit fields auto-bound to a database thing’s fields, manually setting a new address as a position. The map auto updated, even when open on a different browser. (I edited the time delay after recording th…

^ would be my guess too. It works for additions to the database, so don’t see why updates wouldn’t work but I didn’t have time to test it as well.

Consider that updating a field with auto-binding doesn’t add to the workflow count, and neither does loading / auto-updating markers on a map. Using javascript, can set the geographic position from Bubble into the Input field, and this auto-bound with a field in the database, updates the position. …

I wasn’t getting the auto update simply by setting the address as a dynamic value. I’ll try your last tip then since it seemed to work. Thanks for the feedback

did you tested it on a new app? Would you mind sharing it so I could take a look at the workflow?

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Sure thing … I added the check for location not changed, to reduce spamming.
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