Custom live tracking to follow friends on Locus Map

Samuel DESIMEUR shared this question ago

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Hello,

With official Locus Map live tracking service, some data are return by the server to display friends locations in a group.

Can I return some JSON/Data format from my custom live tracking server to display in Locus Map some position that come from the server?

If not, that woud be a great thing to do, because with a custom service, I could follow my friends who share their live tracking with different servers (Garmin, livetrack24, etc.) by creating a service to collect all the positions and return all of them through a Locus Map custom live tracking server response.

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Neoaliphant ●

Good idea, its about time for live tracking to get more attention, its missing features that otehr navigation apps have...

If you could post live tracking fields, chat info etc using tasker

then tasker could get json data, then post a live tracking update..

also means you could run live racking outside of locus using tasker, ie once and hour...currently i do this by having tasker open locus, update, then close.

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Menion ●

Hello Samuel,

give a try and return in response GPX (application/gpx+xml) or KML (application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml) file. I believe, it should work.

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Samuel DESIMEUR ●

Hello Menion,

Great I will test this feature ASAP.

For a gpx response did it contain a wpt or trk mark up?

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Menion ●

KML or GPX file received as reponse to the live tracking should be handled in the same way as app "Map items" system. So full GPX/KML stuff is supported.

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Samuel DESIMEUR ●

The suggestion works very fine. I produce php scripts to automation return of garmin's livetracking gpx with the uuid shared in mail by garmin.

That can be used with locusmap livetracking

https://github.com/sdesimeur/LocusLiveTracking

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Neoaliphant ●

Good project, before the LM4 livetracking, when i used customlivetracking on gyntas server, i had a kml that picked up the location from the server, what would be good is a selection of KMLs that would work with a varity of services. I currently do soemthing simialr with tasker creating the KML based on different options, ie specially formated txt message gets location converted to KML, coords conversion from copy buffer, MapItems is a really usefull system

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