Hello all,
As the N Wales and Wrexham recipients of this will know, I'm not a
developer, the Anglian recipients probably don't know me at all but I
moved here a couple of years ago. Over the last 15 years I've written a
lot about Linux and FOSS for various magazines and websites, but I'm no
expert, so bear with me.
Now I'm mostly retired I have a river/canal cruiser. Last year I did a
single-handed trip of about 10 days in each direction to a boat show.
So that my family could keep track I enabled 'find my phone' on my
mobile and gave them the login details. OK as far as it goes but not
ideal obvs. I also blogged each day and then wrote it all up for a boat
magazine. This year I plan a longer trip - to the Llangollen
International Eisteddfod - about 3 weeks each way. I've sorted out WIFi
and a laptop charger on the boat so I can blog better, now I'd like to
improve the mapping. The ideal would be a map I can embed in a WP page
on my website, that updates every few minutes as I travel. GPS from
either my phone, or if really necessary a dedicated GPS device.
Does anyone know if such is already possible using OSM + plugins etc?
I've had a quick look online but most advice refers to Google maps.
Most of the rest gets very technical very quickly. Goes over my head.
Plan B, is there a dev out there looking for a project? Unpaid and
'free' naturally! Would it feasible to create something like
FlightRadar' that displayed boat positions on inland waterways? There
is already marinetraffic.com for shipping, but that's way too big. I'm
thinking of something boat owners could subscribe to that was available
online and capable of being embedded in a webpage.
--
Phil
