Hey guys! bought a nextbook for my Phantom 3. It has GPS on it, however when I fly my drone it doesn't show the location of the drone on the screen's map. Is that a setting on the tablet? or is because the tablet is wifi only and not using a 4g type of signal? I was under the impression that if the drone is connected to the tablet via wifi it will automatically transmit it's location back to the tab as long as the tab's GPS is enabled.
GPS does not deliver maps to the tablet.
The only use for GPS in your tablet is to use Follow-me or resetting your home point to the current location of the controller.
With no GPS in tour tablet, the app can show the positions of the Phantom and the recorded home point on a map.
But you need a way to get the background map from Google.
That can be either using live cell phone data if available ...
... or what many of us use ... cached (stored) maps.
Simply open your app at home when connected to wifi.
Open the camera view and then the map view.
Make it full screen and find the area you are interested in.
Scroll around at the detail level you want.
You can now close the app and power down the tablet.
That's it ... you've now cached your map and it will be available next time you go flying there.