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Hi,

we have a challenge with our Power Apps application which is used in field management services (remote location out of Wifis). We have several possible devices to be supported: The mobile phone application works perfectly as well as a tablet with 4G/4G sim card. The location data of the Tomtom/Google/Bing Maps works as it should and our employees know the location and it’s coordinates as she/he is driving / working in country-side / forests etc. But the challenge arises as she/he has a laptop without a SIM -card (4G/5G). The location data disappears / appears in totally wrong places (tens/hundreds of kilometers away). We tried to solve the problem with GPS Receiver that works in the same computer with applications having their own local executables (which have a built-in API-support for the usb equipped GPS receiver).

Now, the questions are:

Are there any GPS receivers (we have tried to use Globalsat BU-353N5 USB) which could automatically feed-in right GPS coordinates to Windows OS (10/11) in laptop to be automatically used by cloud based maps (like Bing Map, Google map, TomTom cloud based map)? If so, which are those and how they work in practice?
Are there any other way to get the position/location data to these cloud maps, if your do not have an embedded 4G/5G SIM and location circuit in the laptop. It seems, it you are using Wifi-hot spot the location information will be lost between the laptop and the wifi router/mobile device sharing hotspot?
Or are there any procedure/parameter set up/ registry set up, which would easily solve location data challenge?
If there are no straight forward solution has anyone any work-around or out-of-the-box solution candidate for getting right online position (location) to be used in Windows laptops without 4/5G SIM card having Wifi and using PowerApps solution with Google/Bing/Tomtom cloud maps? (Like exporting latitude and longitude coordinates from the GSP receiver to a CSV file in real time and then, if possible, read the latitude and longitude coordinates from this local text tile Windows/ and use then this data as the location point data in cloud maps?
Can Windows OS read latitude and longitude coordinates from a local file to be used in cloud-based map services like Bing and Google and TomTom as the location info? Any experiences, ideas, hints?

This should not be any rocket science as the several components are working separately but not in this above-mentioned set-up.

But if there are not any reasonable solution available we would appreciate a hard statement to close our internal case and also provide important info to PowerApps / cloud based map / GPS receiver users communities and groups!

Thanks in advance!

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