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?
Element (the matrix chat app) has a “live location” feature (I haven’t had the need to look into anything else)
I’m also pretty sure that I’ve seen more than one relevant Nextcloud apps, but I can’t find one right now 🤔
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
If you can self host the backend and want to temporarily share your location, check out Hauk: https://github.com/bilde2910/Hauk
Meshtastic too.
