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Android App for tagging locations on a map? (programming.dev)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm searching an android app to mark the locations of multiple parked cars. It should be possible to mark different cars somehow to identify them. It would also be cool if there is a feature to share the location with someone on another devica (like a sync between users, NOT copy of coordinates or link on maps

In other words, I need an app to tag multiple locations on a map. It doesn't require to be designed for parked car locations. The app must have these features:

GPS Tracker with map
support to tag multiple locations
- mark them somehow uniquely (like note, category, color, icon, ...) The following features would be nice to have:
sync with other devices, for example family
history of locations
set date/time since location is active (can be timestamp)

I'm ok with paying/ ads or require to self host.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

ATAK would work, but you'd need a TAK server to share location data with other devices. FreeTAK is nice. Though it's a bit much if all you're trying to do is share location among family and don't need a whole-ass TACNET lol.

Otherwise Owntracks might fit the bill better. It hooks up to a MQTT network and you can use something like node-red to pretty easily pop that into a dashboard map if you're not running something like Home Assistant.

Only thing I'm not sure about with Owntracks is the list of location points, but you could use Tasker or something to publish the coordinates to a different MQTT topic than the one your phone is posting to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Thanks for your reply!

ATAK may be a nice piece of software but the wrong app for my use case. It offers too many features I won't need, and the setup for it to work is probably too complicated.

I looked into Owntracks (just the app, haven't installed the server yet) and it looks more of what I was looking for. I tested the list of locations, but the location only gets displayed as coordinates and not on the map. Eventually, I will see some more features when having a server, but idk. Is there like a public server, so I can play around before putting too much time in installing the server?