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Re:OwnTracks: Self-hosted, open source location tracking by PaulRobinson on Monday March 21, 2016 @08:24AM (#11327543)
Would prefer it if it used OSM anyway, which I can also run my own version of if I am little twisted.

Basically, with a bit of work, you could produce a completely-self-hosted solution where there are no calls going out anywhere to anything you don't host yourself.

That's progress to my mind. Just needs a little more work to get there. If I didn't have family over this weekend...

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Re:OwnTracks: Self-hosted, open source location tracking by dvfjsdhgfv on Monday March 21, 2016 @08:43AM (#11327641)
Thank you for thinking about this. I'm starting to think that self-hosted is the open source of today - the web is increasingly *aaS-centric, and users don't even have the idea it's not the only way.
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Re:OwnTracks: Self-hosted, open source location tracking by maxerickson on Monday March 21, 2016 @12:07PM (#11329029)
A medium term solution is to use one of the apps that provide OSM data offline.

For a medium sized region, the download might only be 100 MB. Unless you are in Germany (or some other region where OSM data is particularly dense).

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