Custom live tracking to follow friends on Locus Map

Samuel DESIMEUR shared this question 2 months 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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Good idea, its about time for live tracking to get more attention, its missing features that otehr navigation apps have...


I made a similar post here https://help.locusmap.eu/topic/35605-live-tracking-display-variables


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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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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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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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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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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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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