live tracking

  • grahappa

    (@grahappa)


    5 years, 8 months ago

    I’m trying to setup a live tracking of multiple users and i want to support both android and ios, so it seems my only choice is to use owntracks friends feature? i like the osmand app but i don’t believe the docs same it will support this scenario of tracking multiple users. Can you please confirm?

    I am seeing a map on a page i created that is using the shortcode;

    [tsmap track=live color=#8400ff height=750px continuous=y]

    i can’t seem to figure out how to get the a few things set on the map;

    1] initial orientation to my specific region. it seems to default to a location in europe.

    2] i can’t figure how to share my location from my owntracks app so that it appears on my map.

    thank you

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  • Plugin Author tinuzz

    (@tinuzz)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    What exactly do you expect from OsmAnd regarding multiple users? OsmAnd can be used by multiple users with the same Trackserver installation, and Trackserver can display multiple live tracks in one map. Do you need more? OsmAnd cannot display the map with multiple users’ locations, if that’s what you mean.

    OwnTracks support in Trackserver is still experimental, so I’m not sure it works for everyone, and it’s indeed not well documented. I dug up an OwnTracks configuration that used to work, maybe you can try it? Save this to a file (use .otrc for the filename extension) and import it into OwnTracks:

    {
  "_type": "configuration",
  "mode": 3,
  "auth": true,
  "username": "your_username",
  "password": "your_password",
  "url": "https://your_owntracks_endpoint_url/"
}

    Regarding your shortcode: use ‘user=@’ instead of ‘track=live’, and you can leave out the ‘continuous=y’, it’s only for when you have multiple tracks that are basically segments of one longer track.

    The initial display coordinates are hardcoded into Trackserver, I’m sorry about that. I will make a setting for that in a future version.

    I hope this helps.

    Best regards,
    Martijn.

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    Thread Starter grahappa

    (@grahappa)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    Hello,

    I’m confused, These statements seem to be saying the opposite thing…

    “OsmAnd can be used by multiple users with the same Trackserver installation, and Trackserver can display multiple live tracks in one map. Do you need more? OsmAnd cannot display the map with multiple users’ locations…”

    I would like to live-track multiple users on the same map at the same time. Is this possible and how?

    Where am i placing the owntracks config file? I think this assumes I have an owntracks server, which I don’t yet.

    How can I use your plugin to track multiple users on the same map, preferably supporting both android and ios?

    Thank you

    Plugin Author tinuzz

    (@tinuzz)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    “Trackserver can display multiple live tracks in one map.”
    “OsmAnd cannot display the map with multiple users’ locations”

    In the second statement, I was talking about the internal map in OsmAnd.

    Multiple users are different WordPress accounts. A WP Admin (or rather: someone with the ‘trackserver_publish’ capability. I think that includes WP Editors too) can author a page with a [tsmap] shortcode that displays tracks from multiple users.

    The OwnTracks config file is meant to be imported into the OwnTracks app, see https://owntracks.org/booklet/features/remoteconfig/.

    Best regards,
    Martijn.

    Thread Starter grahappa

    (@grahappa)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    I’ve purchase the osmand live upgrade and enabled the trip recording plugin, but I can’t find the setting for “Online Tracking Web Address” that is pictured in the in-line help of the Trackserver > Your profile page. Where should i expect to see this setting on ios?

    thank you

    Plugin Author tinuzz

    (@tinuzz)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    Sorry, I don’t own an iOS device, so I don’t know if it’s different than on Android. In the Android version, it’s in the settings of the GPX-track plugin. The plugin has different profiles for diffent tracking settings, and in the profile settings, there is a section called ‘Online Tracking’.

    Best regards,
    Martijn.

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