How to get drone's current position?

QGroundControl Development
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Hello. Could you let me know which file is executing the code for displaying the real-time location of drone and which variable the location information is being stored in?(Ex: latitude, longitude, altitude)

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Taking a step back: what are you trying to do?

I believe this might be an XY problem.

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I think I asked the question incorrectly. Apologies.

I would like to log the current position (latitude, longitude, altitude) of the registered drone. To log this information, I need to know which variable stores the drone’s current position.

How can I get this information?

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Log, aha. And you don’t want to use the ulg, so the log by PX4 on the SD card?

For real-time inspection, there is also the MAVLink Inspector.

But if you really want to log it, you will have to either:

  1. add that into QGC somehow (e.g. here)
  2. use something like MAVSDK to record it on the side. For this, you would split the MAVLink traffic from the drone to MAVSDK and QGC using something like mavlink-router.
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Thanks to your help, I am now able to display the current drone’s position in the log.

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