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@atmospheric_cyclist asks, via @epu:
Q4. Does anyone have any recommendation for a mobile app to share my position when I'm cycling alone?
I know Strava has this, but I prefer to use my old-school GPS and manually upload tracks. Also, I'd prefer not to have to use Meta/Google or similar. RideWithGPS can share location, but I need premium for that and since I don't use it otherwise it seems unecessary.
Bonus for Opensource and so on...
#BikeNite A4: I use #OsmAnd as my route planning, tracking, and mapping software. Buried deep in the menus¹ is an option to connect with http to a server, sending various pieces of info about location, timestamp, altitude, speed, &c.
¹ Settings-> Plugins->Trip Recording-> Online Tracking
OsmAnd~ (Global Mobile Map Viewing & Navigation for Offline and Online OSM Maps) on #FDroid: https://f-droid.org/packages/net.osmand.plus/
@ascentale
@atmospheric_cyclist @epu
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#BikeNite A4 2/2: I imagine there must be some servers already set up to receive this info from #OSMand (and made visible on a web page to see my position on a map), but I don't know of any. I want to point it at my own server, but I don't have the coding chops to make my position appear on a map (and so be useful to $SPOUSE).
Of course, you can manually (or automatically) upload your tracks to #OpenStreetMap too, but that's not real-time.
@bobjonkman@mastodon.sdf.org @ascentale@sfba.social @atmospheric_cyclist@mountains.social @epu@mstdn.social There is!
You can publish your location to a Nextcloud instance and view it on a map in it's web UI, or there's the PhoneTrack app that can be used for that. There's some annoying bugs for the tracking/logging in PhoneTrack itself, so I've played around with GPSLogger on my android phone, and it works great.
I have not tried OSMAnd for it, yet, but I believe it will also publish to Nextcloud.
#BikeNite
@kinetix @ascentale @bobjonkman @epu @atmospheric_cyclist
I have used Osmand with Nextcloud in the past - there are some great options for making tracks visible with reasonably granular privacy options.
Little-known option: multi-user tracks can be mapped to a single map; i.e. a bike group could map all their separate real-time progress toward a meet-up.