Does traccar support AWS Location Sevice for geocoding?
I don't think so, but from what I can tell, they don't do reverse geocoding themselves. They use third party providers, some of which we support, like HERE.
Interesting. Will look into HERE.
Lastly, I'd like one confirmation. After revese geocoding is enabled, what happens exactly? The reverse geocoded device location is directly returned by Traccar API? In the address field when we get positions endpoint?
It all depends on your configuration.
Is there one that allows the aforementioned behavior? that's what I aim for. For now, I went with google as geocoding provider. It was configured as suggested by Traccar documentation.
You have to set geocoder.ignorePositions to false if you want to get address automatically in positions.
I'll do that, hoping that works for API calls too. Thanks.
Is there any scenario that could cause GET api/positions to return { "address": null } after setting geocoder.ignorePositions to false?
My first guess is that the geocoding has probably failed. Oddly enough, the Web UI displays the device address.
Another idea, I have is that perhaps those are old positions. Consequently any new position would directly be returned with the address.
You should at least make the device report the GPS location, so that geocoding can actually work.
Does traccar support AWS Location Sevice for geocoding?