Hi there, I’m hoping for some assistance figuring out how best to use the movement quick form. The quick form requires a location to be entered. However, my locations are set as larger “fields” and I am tracking the movement of my flock in smaller “paddocks” within those fields. I don’t want to set those paddocks as permanent locations because they will change overtime as my rotation shifts and my flock size changes, etc.
So, when I go to use the movement quick form, I draw a polygon for the area that I am moving the flock to. But the system requires me to also enter a “location” which is not really what I need.
Is there a way to avoid needing to enter a “location” with any movement?
Another piece of this is that it would be really helpful if I could see my previous geometry for previous movement logs when I am setting the geometry for my movement quick form. I know vaguely where I have had temporary fence in the past but for this to be really useful and accurate, I need to be able to see those lines so that I can map my next paddock to the edges of a previous one.
I see that when I use the movement quick form and enter an asset, the asset’s current location’s geometry appears on the map. This is a great start but a feature request here would be a way to call up previous geometry (maybe using date ranges so that we can look at where the flock was this time last year as well as just last week) to be superimposed onto the location map.
I’m hoping there might already be some way to accomplish this!!
@danigrover I would recommend putting the larger “Field” in as the “Location”, but continue to draw the smaller paddock in as the geometry. This way, you can still easily find those animals and know they were “roughly” in the larger area, but specifically in the smaller geometry. That’s the intended use (and technically location is required by asset location logic: Location | farmOS).
Related to that feature request, is there a way to produce a visual of all of the locations that an asset has been in over a given time frame?
At the end of the year I need to show my grazing records/also helpful for planning the coming season and it would be super nice to be able to visualize this data that way.
Right now, you can go to an individual asset’s page, click on the Logs tab, filter down to “Movement” logs, and see a list of all the movement logs for that asset. You can then also export all the geometries to a KML file. That exists now, although it might be a bit tedious.
One idea that I’ve been thinking about, which would be a next step from that, is to add the ability to select a set of logs and generate a map of all those geometries in farmOS itself. This could be a “Log geometry report” perhaps. I could see this being very generalized, but might be perfectly suited to creating the type of summary you’re thinking about.
That module was built on farmOS v1, and never had the sponsorship to be converted to v2 or v3… until now (maybe)! I am going to be creating a v3 version of the grazing plan data model this/next month… although it’s only the first step (data model). The UI/UX work is next. We’ve been starting to think about ideas over in this topic, if you’re interested in joining!
