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Is there a way to do live location sharing? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by owenfromcanada@lemmy.world to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] gkaklas@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

traccar.org

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

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

Meshtastic too.

[–] enemenemu@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Unfortunately this is still missing. Especially some feature that someone can request the location, instead of me having to actively send it.

My partner could just pull it, with or without me approving (for a certain period). Or for kids. Or friends at a gathering.