Greetings. I would like to be able to share real time my location with another person.I dont want to selfhost. Does anyone have a free and os app suggestion?

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[–] SteveCC@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

https://www.zood.xyz/

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I never thought of linking the .xyz top-level domain to location. I guess you can tell it's a... nice move

[–] Cognitive0780@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks a lot!

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/xyz.zood.george/latest/

Not bad. Which is saying something about a Google Play-distributed app.

[–] SteveCC@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I grabbed it from fdroid

[–] Cognitive0780@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I downloaded the apk direct from github on my grapheneos. Although giving it all the proper permissions it's not able to view my actual location. Any ideas why this is happening? Thanks in advance

[–] JumpingPants@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

From the last time I checked, the developer has been figuring out the location tracking API without using google services (unavailable on ROMS like LineageOS and I think GrapheneOS). The map itself used to not display at all if I recall. Happy to see it progressing though.

[–] lsjw96kxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If you are inside, the GPS location might not be found. If happing outside, it could be because of a bad configuration of the systems settings.

[–] Cognitive0780@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

You mean inside of a building? Yes i was. Still lets say the organic maps dont have any issues finding my location inside of a building with less permissions. Still thanks for the help. I'll give it some more tries.

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, cool.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

An option is to use the E2E chat application Jami; there are mobile and desktop clients, and one feature is location sharing. You can enable it for ranges of time up to an hour, after which it disables itself again.

[–] oeuf@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

Jami ftw 💪

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

DeltaChat(and ArcaneChat client) have a location sharing feature.

May only have a timeframe of 5min-6hours though.

[–] Cognitive0780@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you! I'll check it out. Wouldn't be my first choice to do it with a messaging app, but if the other solutions won't work then I'll definitely use that.

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Looks like SMSLoc can remote query the location of a friend, using SMS as a transport.

I have not tried this one.

It appears you can whitelist certain phone numbers to query your location.

[–] Cognitive0780@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So i suppose it's not encrypted? But thanks i'll check this out!

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yes, not encrypted, straight cleartext SMS.

You could possible hack the code to add a strong crypto wrapper to the data stream.

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago

Note down your street's name
Look up the longitude and latitude of it on a map
Send those two numbers to your friend via SMS

There you go. You have to paid for your SMS though.

This is a community to discuss open source software, not a place to look for free service.