Sharing and saving your trail as you travel

I know that there are devices and services of various sophistication and price that use GPS and worldwide cellular all built-in to one convenient package... for a price.

I'm looking to do it with just a cell phone and the $15 SIM I usually buy at the destination country airport.

The main feature I want is to allow people to go to a map and see my track with timestamps for a week or two. That would mean pushing my position to the Internet every hour or so and then having that list plotted on a map when the user goes to a specific web location. I could easily write an app to push the location to a Google drive, but don't know where to find a service to plot it. Besides, I figured something like this is out there already.

Best Answer

Since your own answer allows the possibility of having access to a webserver, you might consider ?logger. This free (as in freedom, it's GPLv3) Android app comes in two halves, an on-phone client, and an on-server viewer, apparently written in PHP, for the uploaded tracks.

Disclaimer: I have no connection with the project, I just fired up my fdroid client and did a bit of searching.

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How do I record a journey on Google Maps?

Saving a route to your Android's home screen

Open Google Maps and bring up the route that you want to save.

On the same screen where you can pin the route, instead tap the three dots next to the starting location.

Select Add route to Home screen and confirm that you want to add the icon.

How do I track my journey?

Find your travels

On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Maps app .

Tap your profile picture or initial Your Timeline .

To find another day or month, at the top, tap Today. Swipe left or right on the calendar and tap a day.

Does AllTrails track your location?

AllTrails uses your location to find trails near you and to enable features such as using Navigator to track your activity. Your privacy is incredibly important to us, and we won't ever share your location information.

How do I track someone on Google Maps without them knowing?

That makes it easy to track someone on Google Maps, with a caveat: the person you want to track must opt into sharing their location, so it's (thankfully) not possible to track anyone without their knowledge or consent.

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