FOSS Location Sharing App?

Are there any currently maintained FOSS apps for continuous/periodic sharing of location? I am looking for something similar to Google Map's "Share My Location" option. All the FOSS apps I could find appear to be abandoned.

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digger@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 218d

It's a more robust solution than you're looking for, but you can accomplish this using Home Assistant. Using the mobile phone integrations, you can share your location.

hummingbird@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 218d

phonetrack nextcloud app for backend/website in combination with OsmAnd on your phone works great.

AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 218d

That isn't the main goal of dawarich but family location sharing is a recently added feature

Keshara@piefed.world · 4 pts · 218d
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unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 218d

A privacy preserving location sharing system that shows you a map can only work with offline maps. If the map data isnt already on your device, then that means the server delivering the map data knows where you are.

I dont know of an offline maps based live location app. There are plenty of non google apps that do this in a non private way as a primary or secondary function. Matrix/Element can do it and there are apps on fdroid (ToLoShare for example), that do it. But all of those have to somehow depend on a server that delivers the map "tiles" (chunks of map data near you) to show you a map. So they are all technically capable of tracking you.

The only really private way to do this is to share the coordinates through a secure channel in an automated way and then whenever you need it you open those coordinates in you offline maps app (CoMaps for example)

a_person@piefed.social · 4 pts · 218d

Zood location

elperronegro@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 218d

Deltachat can do this

scott@lem.free.as · 2 pts · 218d