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[Feature Request] Add live tracking

Open A1CY0N opened this issue 8 months ago • 3 comments

Many thanks for all your great work on wanderer @Flomp. An additional feature that would surely be useful to many people would be to be able to record a live track with FOSS applications like OwnTracks, Compass or Overland.

This would require adding an endpoint to the API and adding a toggle (like the “public” one) with the URL when creating a trail.

A1CY0N avatar Mar 30 '25 13:03 A1CY0N

Sorry, I'm not familiar with these applications. What you request is an endpoint that allows an app to send a location update, and in turn incrementally builds a trail?

Flomp avatar Apr 08 '25 16:04 Flomp

Yes, that's precisely it. The idea would be to be able to share the progress of a bike trip, for example. Here is the documentation for the HTTP endpoint with OwnTracks.

A1CY0N avatar Apr 09 '25 19:04 A1CY0N

This would be an incredible feature and would likely add the ability to follow already created trails as well. When a user is ready to start their trek they could hit start and it would essentially direct them which way to go on the trail

briannelson95 avatar Apr 29 '25 18:04 briannelson95

Also don't forget Traccar ;) But would be a awesome feature tho.

Jonuji avatar Jun 21 '25 11:06 Jonuji

This would be neat! A lot of the "hiking apps" have this as a feature where you can send a live share link to friends/family. Wonder if that would be a similar use case for this FR.

nebriv avatar Jun 22 '25 19:06 nebriv

Live tracking would be a neat feature. It would be useful to maybe collect users' app preferences before implementing 'something'.

mrwsl avatar Jun 23 '25 06:06 mrwsl