2w ago

Real-Time location sharing app

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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https://www.zood.xyz/
- I never thought of linking the .xyz top-level domain to location. I guess you can tell it's a... nice move
- Thanks a lot!
- https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/xyz.zood.george/latest/
  Not bad. Which is saying something about a Google Play-distributed app.
  
  I grabbed it from fdroid
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.
- Jami ftw 💪
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.

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