Adding Notes to GPS Readings

In some cases you may want to associate notes with a GPS reading. This may be a note that is manually entered by a user of the Rails application such as a dispatcher or possibly a driver with a GPS enabled mobile phone. The driver may want to send a textual status update to the system. If you look at the database schema for your Foundation application you’ll notice a note field in the readings table. Once populated, this note will automatically display on the map with the corresponding reading: