[Talk-GB] GPS longboat positioning

[Steven Horner]

Take a look at http://www.shareyouradventure.com this maybe what you are
looking for. Originally Phil designed it to track walking routes live.

It could certainly be used how you described with an embedded map or direct
on the site. It is now a paid service but very cheap.

You can use a variety of devices to submit the locations from Spot type
devices to a simple Android phone which is probably the cheapest and
easiest in your situation.

The only negative is that I'm not sure if it uses OSM as an option or just
Ordnance Survey and Google Maps. If you do subscribe and OSM isn't an
option then I'm sure you could twist Phil's arm to add it if it isn't
already there.

I used to use it years ago when I walked more regularly and when I walked
the JMT.

Regards,
Steven

On Tue, 5 Feb 2019, 19:44 BD <dzidek23 at tlen.pl wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> please see below an email send to Anglia Linux User list. As this is more
> relevant to OSM forum I decided to paste it here.
>
> Phil Thane phil at pthane.co.uk przez
> <https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1311182?hl=pl> earth.li
>
> Hello all,
>
> As the N Wales and Wrexham recipients of this will know, I'm not a
> developer, the Anglian recipients probably don't know me at all but I moved
> here a couple of years ago. Over the last 15 years I've written a lot about
> Linux and FOSS for various magazines and websites, but I'm no expert, so
> bear with me.
>
> Now I'm mostly retired I have a river/canal cruiser. Last year I did a
> single-handed trip of about 10 days in each direction to a boat show. So
> that my family could keep track I enabled 'find my phone' on my mobile and
> gave them the login details. OK as far as it goes but not ideal obvs. I
> also blogged <https://pthane.co.uk/day-1/> each day and then wrote it all
> up for a boat magazine. This year I plan a longer trip - to the Llangollen
> International Eisteddfod - about 3 weeks each way. I've sorted out WIFi and
> a laptop charger on the boat so I can blog better, now I'd like to improve
> the mapping. The ideal would be a map I can embed in a WP page on my
> website, that updates every few minutes as I travel. GPS from either my
> phone, or if really necessary a dedicated GPS device.
>
> Does anyone know if such is already possible using OSM + plugins etc? I've
> had a quick look online but most advice refers to Google maps. Most of the
> rest gets very technical very quickly. Goes over my head.
>
> Plan B, is there a dev out there looking for a project? Unpaid and 'free'
> naturally! Would it feasible to create something like FlightRadar' that
> displayed boat positions on inland waterways? There is already
> marinetraffic.com for shipping, but that's way too big. I'm thinking of
> something boat owners could subscribe to that was available online and
> capable of being embedded in a webpage.
>
> --
> Phil
>
> Hopefully someone might have ideas, I'm interested myself as fair few
> other uses come to my mind.
>
> Cheers,
> Bart
>
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