Electron Asset Tracker - SMS with GPS Coordinates

General
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Hi,

I am new to the Particle community and have recently picked up an Electron Asset Tracker v2. I want to get started on my first project and am looking for guidance and advice.

Goal:
Particle Asset Tracker sense movement via accelerometer, Send SMS text message notification with clickable googlemaps map URL with last retrieved GPS coordinates embedded and time stamp.

Resources:
Particle Cloud
Twilio

Currently, I have successfully setup webhook integration to send a text message alert from my particle via twilio to my mobile phone. I am looking for assistance on getting started with polling coordiantes at a given event and inject those coordiantes into an SMS to be sent.

Can this also be done via cell towers instead of GPS satellite?

Future Goals:
Send GPS coordinates to cloud app to view history of device events with timestamp and locations and tracker log.

Thanks,
Dan

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This will help get you going on geolocation via cell towers (vs. GPS).

cheers,
ParticleD

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Thank you. What is the best way to extract the coordinates and convert them to tangible values? I would like to implement them into a URL via text message that is clickable when receivers theough SMS.

Cheers,
Dan

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Have you looked at the AssetTrackerRK library examples?

Once you have the values, you can use snprintf() to create the desired URL-string.