Hello everybody,

I go in bike alone and I would know if there is any app - possibly open source - that allows to my wife to track my position wherever I am when I’m riding.

Thanks in advance

    • Echedenyan@lemmy.ml
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      3 years ago

      I have been using this successfully to track my devices online and share it for 2 years already.

    • Kinetix
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      3 years ago

      Gotta upvote this, only answer I know of that works and fits the bill.

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    3 years ago

    Telegram has a live location feature.

    Whatsapp also has a live location feature.

    Gmaps also has one, I think

    I don’t know any FOSS alternatives

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        3 years ago

        Other than the partial open-source Telegram, none of the suggestions you made are even remotely acceptable if you care about privacy. And with Telegram it is unclear what their servers do with the location data.

        And yes there are FOSS alternatives that work well and are privacy respecting.

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          3 years ago

          Yes I know they are not privacy friendly. But these are convenient to use. There is also nothing to set up. Setting up a server for running a location tracking app seems like a lot of work. His wife just wants to know his location.

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            3 years ago

            To be fair, OP wasn’t specifically asking for an open- source solution. Providing commercial answers aren’t wrong and is helpful.

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    3 years ago

    https://www.traccar.org/

    Is another open-source solution, albeit more geared towards tracking vehicle fleets.

    I think OSMAnd can also track location to a server. At least with Nextcloud PhoneTrack it used to work, but maybe there are other server side implementations of that.

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      3 years ago

      comment so I can remove

      idk why I could not click on this post but its gone now