OwnTracks Recorder
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OwnTracks Recorder | Openstreetmap | |
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5 | 733 | |
780 | 2,012 | |
5.4% | 2.1% | |
8.5 | 9.9 | |
24 days ago | about 11 hours ago | |
C | Ruby | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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OwnTracks Recorder
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Google maps tracking alternative
Some people have issues installing Own Track's Recorder - This one is very minimal and saves your locations to an sqlite file.
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What are your top self hosted services that you are very satisfied with ?
I also use OwnTracks on my phone and installed OwnTracks Recorder on my server. I skimmed over my blog post for that but I don't think there's much useful for you there.
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none of the location tracking/sharing services are any good
I've looked at OwnTracks, Orion, and Hauk.
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OwnTracks – keep track of your own location
As far as I know, owntracks doesn't actually store location history, it only defines a protocol for exchanging current location info between programs. If you're using their "official" recording server, writing a script to import history looks super easy [1].
[0] https://github.com/owntracks/recorder/blob/master/doc/STORE....
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Open-source, self-hosted location tracking with OwnTracks and Grafana
After setting up the client side, a server-side component to receive the OwnTracks app's requests is still missing. OwnTracks ships with its Recorder, which is a small and simple web application written in C. However, I did not like it a lot, as it does not look particularly beautiful and is very limited regarding its functionality. I rather wanted to visualize my data in Grafana. But to get it there, it first needs to be persisted to a database.
Openstreetmap
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The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has Collapsed
What impressed me was that it looks like openstreetmap shows the bridge as down already.
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Open source at Fastly is getting opener
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2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps
Way overdue. OpenStreetMap's website at openstreetmap.org is its calling card, and for the past few years the default style shown (called Carto) has all but stagnated in development. Accepted features like highway=busway (introduced three years ago) are not rendered there because the maintainers can no longer be bothered, or dislike the tag personally despite broad community backing.
What worries me for this new effort is that Paul Norman is one of the two remaining Carto sometimes-active maintainers who refuse to merge contributed PRs or even provide alternative minimal support for features like highway=busway, leading to awkward gaps on the baseline map shown on openstreetmap.org.
I would love to be surprised in a positive way about this new effort, but I'm not holding my hopes up. Thankfully OpenStreetMap can be thoroughly useful in apps like OsmAnd and OrganicMaps, and the tile-based Tracestrack Topo layer on openstreetmap.org is getting quite decent:
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Waterway Map
Yes, https://www.openstreetmap.org has quite inconsistent detail as it relies on people mapping stuff.
And help is welcome, anyone can join and help with mapping!
- Quairading shire erects signs telling travellers to ignore Google Maps
- Osmapp – A Universal OpenStreetMap App
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"I'm in this picture and I don't like it"
OsmAnd works for me. I am looking to get off Google, so I try to retire anything that is not on F-Droid. OsmAnd is a independent project ( osmand.net ) that uses the data you can also access under www.openstreetmap.org . The App is not perfect and sometimes it calls for the wrong action, for example when a road is just taking a steep turn it might ask for you to turn onto a different road which is actually the same every now and then. Also Google uses the location data of it's users to change routes depending on congestion afaik. Don't expect that from OsmAnd.
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Plan route trip app with a 3D map
All the above are based on https://www.openstreetmap.org
- New Google Maps Design: "they missed a key opportunity to simplify and scale."
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There's a new map style on OpenStreetMap.org
.. and me FF/Linux.
Parent might like to examine their extensions/network/life choices. I block a shit load of stuff and bizarrely a mapping system used and generated by millions of people just seems to work.
This didn't look very pretty but I still got the menus 8)
$ links "https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/50.93675/-2.63421&layers=P"
What are some alternatives?
Traccar - Traccar GPS Tracking System
OsmAnd - OsmAnd
littlenavmap - Little Navmap is a free flight planner, navigation tool, moving map, airport search and airport information system for Flight Simulator X, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, Prepar3D and X-Plane.
Orion - Robust web visualization tool for OwnTracks location data
uMap - uMap lets you create maps with OpenStreetMap layers in a minute and embed them in your site.
Graphhopper - Open source routing engine for OpenStreetMap. Use it as Java library or standalone web server.
OpenRailwayMap - An OpenStreetMap-based project for creating a map of the world's railway infrastructure.
OpenLayers3 - OpenLayers
QGIS - QGIS is a free, open source, cross platform (lin/win/mac) geographical information system (GIS)