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?
Thanks a lot!
I never thought of linking the .xyz top-level domain to location. I guess you can tell it’s a… nice move
DeltaChat(and ArcaneChat client) have a location sharing feature.
May only have a timeframe of 5min-6hours though.
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.
Looks like SMSLoc can remote query the location of a friend, using SMS as a transport.
I have not tried this one.
It appears you can whitelist certain phone numbers to query your location.
So i suppose it’s not encrypted? But thanks i’ll check this out!
Yes, not encrypted, straight cleartext SMS.
You could possible hack the code to add a strong crypto wrapper to the data stream.
- Note down your street’s name
- Look up the longitude and latitude of it on a map
- Send those two numbers to your friend via SMS
There you go. You have to paid for your SMS though.
This is a community to discuss open source software, not a place to look for free service.
