Real-Time location sharing app (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Cognitive0780@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Greetings. I would like to be able to share real time my location with another person.I dont want to selfhost. Does anyone have a free and os app suggestion?

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[-] SteveCC@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

https://www.zood.xyz/

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I never thought of linking the .xyz top-level domain to location. I guess you can tell it's a... nice move

[-] Cognitive0780@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

Thanks a lot!

[-] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 3 points 3 days ago

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/xyz.zood.george/latest/

Not bad. Which is saying something about a Google Play-distributed app.

[-] SteveCC@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I grabbed it from fdroid

[-] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 1 points 2 days ago

Oh, cool.

[-] Cognitive0780@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

I downloaded the apk direct from github on my grapheneos. Although giving it all the proper permissions it's not able to view my actual location. Any ideas why this is happening? Thanks in advance

[-] JumpingPants@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

From the last time I checked, the developer has been figuring out the location tracking API without using google services (unavailable on ROMS like LineageOS and I think GrapheneOS). The map itself used to not display at all if I recall. Happy to see it progressing though.

[-] lsjw96kxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

If you are inside, the GPS location might not be found. If happing outside, it could be because of a bad configuration of the systems settings.

[-] Cognitive0780@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

You mean inside of a building? Yes i was. Still lets say the organic maps dont have any issues finding my location inside of a building with less permissions. Still thanks for the help. I'll give it some more tries.

[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

DeltaChat(and ArcaneChat client) have a location sharing feature.

May only have a timeframe of 5min-6hours though.

[-] Cognitive0780@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Thank you! I'll check it out. Wouldn't be my first choice to do it with a messaging app, but if the other solutions won't work then I'll definitely use that.

[-] Sxan@piefed.zip 9 points 3 days ago

An option is to use the E2E chat application Jami; there are mobile and desktop clients, and one feature is location sharing. You can enable it for ranges of time up to an hour, after which it disables itself again.