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Is there a way to do live location sharing? (self.openstreetmap)

submitted 4 days ago by owenfromcanada to c/[email protected]

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My partner and I love having live location sharing, it's the main feature of Google Maps that we loathe leaving behind. Is there anything in the OSM ecosystem that replicates it?

So far I found OsmAnd's tracker, which I think works by sending location updates through a Telegram backend or some such?

Is there anything else out there? Anyone else using a feature like this?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Element (the matrix chat app) has a "live location" feature (I haven't had the need to look into anything else)

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I'm also pretty sure that I've seen more than one relevant Nextcloud apps, but I can't find one right now 🤔

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

~~Owntracks was one of the nextcloud apps,~~ I used it years ago: https://owntracks.org/

It's also on fdroid: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.owntracks.android/

I found the nextcloud app it is PhoneTrack:

It has a big list of supported apps: https://github.com/julien-nc/phonetrack/blob/main/doc/user.md

[–] arrowfunc 4 points 4 days ago

If you can self host the backend and want to temporarily share your location, check out Hauk: https://github.com/bilde2910/Hauk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Meshtastic too.