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It is robust and offers some interesting features beyond tracking. TrackMe is available for Windows Phone as well as Android.

OR an open protocol specification or a protocol that is easy to reverse-engineer, so I can build the server component myself.

AND a matching a server component that can put the location data in a database,.

This post is categorized in ‘ Nerd Stuff‘ for a reason 🙂 My location data is mine and no one else’s, and I would like to decide how I consume the data and if/how I share my location. Hosted services, like the once popular but now deceased Google Latitude or InstaMapper are not interesting to me.

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The solutions I am interested in should be able to do live online tracking to a self-hosted location, meaning the Android app should offer the possibility to enter a custom hostname or URL. It triggered me to do a short survey of the Android landscape, since it appears that more apps have popped up since I last looked. I was unfamiliar with OruxMaps, but it has a zillion features and it looks great in general. The other day, I was discussing the subject with a friend who is looking for a similar solution and has been using OruxMaps for offline tracking.

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Since long I have been interested in live online location tracking using my Android phone and I have been using a collection of software components that makes this possible for a while. Tags: android, GPS, oruxmaps, osmand, plugin, tracking, trackme, wordpress Configure the app(s) with your WordPress URL, username and password (HowTo with screenshots is included in the plugin)įeel free to give it a go, and if you do, let me know what you think!.

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Install TrackeMe and/or OruxMaps on your Android phone.Install the plugin in your WordPress site.Getting started with Trackserver is quite easy: The current version is 1.0, which has all the basic features described above. Both pages have more information on Trackserver’s features.

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Please take a look at the plugin page at or the source code repository at Github. Trackserver’s WordPress admin allows you to upload GPX files to add new tracks, view, delete and merge tracks and edit their properties (name, comment, etc.).

Live tracking of your location, with automatic updates of the map view in your WordPress post.

View, edit, delete and merge your tracks in the WordPress admin backend.

Upload tracks by sharing a GPX file from your mobile, using a sharing app like Autoshare.

Upload tracks via an upload form in the WordPress admin backend.

Publish your collected tracks on a map in your posts and pages.

Collect location updates using several mobile apps.

Collecting and publishing your tracks has never been easier, at least not in a self-hosted website! The plugin also offers a WordPress shortcode to include maps with your GPS tracks in your posts and pages, using the fantastic Leaflet library. Your own WordPress blog with the Trackserver plugin can ‘listen’ on such a URL to receive the updates and store them in a database. All of these apps offer the possibility to periodically post location updates to a web URL that you can specify. OsmAnd support is on the roadmap and I’m thinking about adding GpsGate support. Trackserver is designed to work with TrackMe and OruxMaps. That’s why I decided to write my own, and do it as a free and open source WordPress plugin, to make it as accessible as possible. While there are some apps that do this, there aren’t many (free) options for hosting your own server. The web service stores the location updates and optionally publishes them on a map. The idea is, that you have your phone periodicially send your location to a web service while you’re on the go.

A while ago, I wrote a post titled “ Self-hosted live online GPS tracking with Android“, in which I evaluated a few Android apps that can be used for, you guessed it, live online location tracking.