[Bradford] Geolocation phone tracking

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 If you have Nextcloud there is a free phone tracking app on that. I do have Nextcloud  but I've never tried the phone tracker so I don't know what is involved.
 Open Street Map (OSMaND) will track on a map where the phone has been but OSMaND needs to be resident on that phone.
Home Assistant will show where a phone is but it can be slow to respond to changes. I found it to be a bit of a power hog too.
Brian


    On Monday, 16 May 2022, 11:08:32 CEST, John Robert Hudson via Bradford <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:  
 
 Hi John

Way back in 2013, there was a demonstration of this. The brief notes say:

Alice started by demonstrating how Google collects geolocation data from 
mobile ‘phones which can then be viewed from your account on https://
maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0/.

Of course, as Google changes things so often, this may be out-of-date.

John

On Monday, 16 May 2022 09:53:20 BST John Poltorak via Bradford wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience of using geolocation phone tracking?
> 
> I've searched the Internet but just get into a recursive loop.. There seem
> to be so many YouTube videos about the subject many of which appear to
> offer a free trial, but I haven't been successful in getting anything to
> work.
> 
> Is there an Android app I can download which monitors a single phone number
> without me needing to install anything on that number which I can use for a
> month without incurring a great cost?
> 
> Many thanks in advance.





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