Another feature we are going to present in this blog is Live tracking. For those who don't have clue - in short, Live tracking is distant real-time online monitoring of someone's position. In practice it can be useful in many cases - you can keep your friends informed about your bike trip or your position in a competition or wandering in the woods. Many parents will enjoy their peaceful sleep when they know where their offspring is during a weekend spree with his or her friends...

Technically you need a mobile phone with GPS and internet connection, an live tracking app - Locus Map particularly - and a web service, either dedicated or external. And that's our case - we'll show this feature on the live tracking function of the GPSies.com website.

Step one - GPSies.com

We've mentioned GPSies.com a few times here regarding Locus Map's connection to its vast track database. So you know you need to be registered and logged in to use GPSies services. Live tracking function can be found in Discover menu. The map window displays positions of users connected with their devices to the live tracking service. You can monitor either all of them at once or select one of them in the menu on the right. Each user displays its position and some other values - local time, average speed, pace, passed distance or time on the track.

So as to set your Live tracking in Locus Map you need your personal GPSies live tracking PIN - it can be found in the Instructions window:

The other information in the window can be ignored.

Step two - Live tracking settings in Locus Map

• launch Locus Map and tap Live tracking in the main Menu > More
• tap + button and insert name of a new live tracking - GPSies
• a new item appears in the list - tap it and fill in the update parameters and base URL - http://www.gpsies.com/liveTracking.do

• then go on with Data section. Tap ADD button and add two text fields with keys username and pin (insert your GPSies username and Live Tracking PIN in the “value” fields), then add latitude (not abbreviation “lat”!) and longitude keys (leave “value” blank) and requestTimestamp key with {s} in value field:

Step three - start Live tracking

Tap START button in upper bar.

After a while you can see yourself on the GPSies Live tracking map page:

Have fun!

Článek Locus live tracking with GPSies se nejdříve objevil na Locus Map - Outdoor-Navigations-App.