OwnTracks – keep track of your own location

Re:OwnTracks – keep track of your own location by jenny91 on Monday April 04, 2022 @10:19AM (#30906909)

If anybody is interested in tracking their own location with a sure way of it not ending up on a remote server somewhere: you can buy a number of GPS/GNSS data loggers, e.g. "Columbus GPS" with their V990-Mk2 or P-10 Pro are good. They store it on a MicroSD card as GPX tracks. Battery life is decent at >24h.

There's some info in the OpenStreetMap community and the "quantified self" communities.

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Re:OwnTracks – keep track of your own location by skrobul on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @11:49AM (#30920502)

Do you really want to carry around yet another gadget with you all the time? How about remembering to charge yet another gadget ~daily?

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Re:OwnTracks – keep track of your own location by jenny91 on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @01:07PM (#30921680)

That's the downside and I'm by no means suggesting someone should do this unless they really want to! The comment was more for those who really do want to.

But yes: I do that. I personally think it's very interesting to see where I've been and to visualize the traces, especially when I'm traveling around the world.

When I originally started a few years ago, battery drain from running a GPS logger 24/7 on a phone was significant. This was a good alternative. I'm now used to it and appreciate that I'm fully in control of that data.

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