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I'm looking for recommendations for an Android app to track and report GPS-type data (if such an app exists). Specifically, I'm hoping to be able to extract stops, origin/destination, roads/route traveled, and speed information.

Two use cases:

  1. Friend does an ad-hoc delivery service where requests are phoned in when they're needed rather than scheduled ahead of time. The ability to see where they started, where they went, and what roads/distance they traveled as they scurry about all day without having to enter it all manually into a map program later on would be invaluable to calculating expenses.
  2. Same friend was pulled over, while I was also in the vehicle, for speeding but was definitely not exceeding the speed limit. I would've loved to be able to pull up some GPS data that said what speed we were going at the time on the road in question.
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Fitotrack. It's like strava, but open source. I use it regularly, and I'm sure it has all you need.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

The first thing that came to mind is Strava. It's been a long time since I used it, but I found this thing about Strava Beacon which sounds like it might do what you're looking for.

https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/224357527-Strava-Beacon

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

OSMAnd on fdroid can record all sorts of trip data and can spit it out as gpx files, which are just XML and probably pretty parsable in something like Python. That might get you at least some of what you want.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Phone track is on fdroid and uses owntracks format. I use it with a custom api, but it is build for nextckoud.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can use GPSLogger to record it in local or send it to whatever service you want.
If you're into selfhosting you can use traccar which is focused into fleet management so it's easy to get reports on the trips made.

As for your second point, I wouldn't trust the GPS for this, it can say you weren't moving since it only checks every so often to record the data, or maybe it says you actually were speeding because the two points it used to calculate the data weren't the actual points you were at that time.
A dashcam would be better suited for this. I'm not sure how they work, but most probably they can be connected to read data from your car which would be more trust worthy to whoever might decide if you were actually speeding.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I use GPSLogger to create my monthly travel log for my employer. You can fine-tune it pretty well and it works almost as well as Google's location timeline while not having to rely on Google's appetite for personal data.
I use its built-in ssh upload feature to get my data transferred to my SBC at home.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I know magic earth is like waze but has a built in Webcam mode that could record your drive, not sure if you can then export the GPS and speed data though

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I have always like GPS essentials for various other location tasks. While I have never used it, there's a track mode under streams. Data can be exported in a handful of formats.