Hello,
Last year when I went away on my canal boat adventure I set up a tracker on my phone that plotted by position and track on a website, and embedded that page in my blog. Two snags this year, one Google has removed the app from their store and even if they hadn't it wouldn't help much because I've wiped the phone and installed LineageOS with no Google components. I really don't want to have to backtrack and sign up to Google again. Anyone know any alternatives?
Yes, I have tried searching (not Googling) but all the apps seem to come from Google Play. I use OSM on the desktop and OSMAnd sat nav app on the phone and I have read it's possible to do what I want using those. However all the advice I can find is aimed at people logging journeys to update OSM (which I have done in the past) not using it to display a real-time (or almost) map showing where I am. Can anyone help?
On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 at 19:56, Phil Thane phil@pthane.co.uk wrote:
However all the advice I can find is aimed at people logging journeys to update OSM (which I have done in the past) not using it to display a real-time (or almost) map showing where I am. Can anyone help?
Every tear our local Lions Club (of which I'm a member) do a Santa float around local streets, and last year I allowed people to track us, which sounds similar to what you need.
We used http://sharemylocation.info and it worked pretty well for our needs.
I can't comment on privacy or other concerns (given our objective was to publicly share our location on Facebook they weren't high on our list!) but it's not Google which seems to be your main criteria.
Hi Phil,
I'm not sure if this wouldn't be an overkill for what you want but look at nextcloud.
https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/phonetrack or https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/gpxpod
If you could link it with PIcoCMS (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/cms_pico) you would have a self hosted relatively easy to setup system showing where you are and collecting data in repository.
Hope that helps..
also as a side note have a look at AutoraOSS and F-droid (which you might already know about) they are good ways of getting apps not signing to google (I also refused to create google and mobile vendor user account)
wt., 28 lip 2020 o 19:56 Phil Thane phil@pthane.co.uk napisał(a):
Hello,
Last year when I went away on my canal boat adventure I set up a tracker on my phone that plotted by position and track on a website, and embedded that page in my blog. Two snags this year, one Google has removed the app from their store and even if they hadn't it wouldn't help much because I've wiped the phone and installed LineageOS with no Google components. I really don't want to have to backtrack and sign up to Google again. Anyone know any alternatives?
Yes, I have tried searching (not Googling) but all the apps seem to come from Google Play. I use OSM on the desktop and OSMAnd sat nav app on the phone and I have read it's possible to do what I want using those. However all the advice I can find is aimed at people logging journeys to update OSM (which I have done in the past) not using it to display a real-time (or almost) map showing where I am. Can anyone help?
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