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Is there a way to do live location sharing? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My partner and I love having live location sharing, it's the main feature of Google Maps that we loathe leaving behind. Is there anything in the OSM ecosystem that replicates it?

So far I found OsmAnd's tracker, which I think works by sending location updates through a Telegram backend or some such?

Is there anything else out there? Anyone else using a feature like this?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Unfortunately this is still missing. Especially some feature that someone can request the location, instead of me having to actively send it.

My partner could just pull it, with or without me approving (for a certain period). Or for kids. Or friends at a gathering.