Follow Me

The Follow Me widget brings real-time location awareness to your ArcGIS® Experience Builder applications by displaying the user’s current position on the map and keeping the map centered on the user’s location as they move around.

Key Features:

• Live location updates using the browser’s geolocation API.
• Visual indicators including a location point, optional heading arrow, and accuracy circle.
• Automatic following that automatically pans and zooms, with pause/resume when the user interacts manually.
• Status feedback with color-coded indicators.

What it helps you do

• Provide an enhanced and personalized user experience
• Increase situational awareness by allowing users to quickly orientate themselves
• Deliver an enhanced experience for mobile users

Example use cases

• Field based works who need to find nearby assets or features
• Incident response where rapid orientation is critical
• Survey based activity where updating the map based on locate saves time

Using ArcGIS Online?
If you don’t have access to ArcGIS® Experience Builder Developer Edition, try our Hosted Experience Builder environment. It is the fastest way to start using custom widgets like this one. No local setup or deployment required.

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