Hi, I am planning to build my own location history service similar to the google maps timeline.

For this, I need a simple app that sends my current location (and current speed/altitude if possible) to a given HTTPS endpoint every x seconds.

Is there an app that does that? I could also build my own app, but I’d prefer to spend my time on the server-side.

I found a similar feature in OsmAnd (see the image below), but I’d like to not send my coordinates via URL parameters for security reasons.

  • @[email protected]
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    16 days ago

    Traccar, uLogger, Locus, OwnTrack…

    That said you say you don’t want to send your location via the url but with https, the url is also encrypted.

    • @IHateRedditOP
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      415 days ago

      Thanks, I’ll try that for now since I wanted to set up a nextcloud anyways

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    515 days ago

    GPSLogger seems to fit your requirements. It allows you to send location data to a wide variety of different servers, including URLs.

  • @MeepMorp
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    416 days ago

    Is this something you could do with tasker?

  • @[email protected]
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    315 days ago

    I’ve found gpslogger to phonetrack works well. The phonetrack app isn’t bad but a bit heavy IMO.