App of the day: Glympse

[MarillionFan]

No, it only works when you authorise it to broadcast your location to someone else. They can't just log in and see where you are, and once the broadcast time has expired, you would have to invite them to view it again.
You can also request that someone shares their location, but it's up to them to agree to share, otherwise you won't know.
The big difference between this and "Find My Friends" (apple) or whatever android has, is that this works cross platform, you can decide when you want to share your location, and groups can share what they are all doing

The app 'Find my friends' will always be empty in your case.

[xoggoth]

Mind you, no idea how to use some things. Mine has these on-screen controls:



Top left shows normal view, 2nd left just puts circle among a lot of blank squares - guessing from icon it should show a world map, 3rd does nothing. Nothing on right does anything except centre location on screen.

Done searches, found no explanations. Can't find any images of a screen like that.

Anyone using it got any ideas?

PS Just went to bed last night and occured to me the top right is compass, points North. Still no idea about others. 2nd is a doughnut tracker maybe.

[Mordac]

Ideal if you wanted your deadbeat gambler husband whacked.

Surely he'll be in the bookies (or the pub)?

[xoggoth]

I've got that. Good when it works. Last time I tried to use it I was waiting 5 mins for position and gave up but I think that's because my android phone is very old and cheap as you would expect. Seem to recall GPS has always been rather crap but I've got a Garmin Oregon anyway.

PS Just tried it, Working ok.
PPS After I turned GPS function on! Ahem.

[MrMarkyMark]

FTFY

A friend of mine introduced me to this one a few weeks ago, it's probably been around for ages but Ive only learned of it.
It's cross platform and free. It allows you to broadcast your position on a map to one person or a group of them for a specific length of time (up to an hour). It will also show the route you have taken.
Very useful if you participate in country style dogging

...here ends my useful post of the year.

[original PM]

Useful Google maps suffices for me though

[WTFH]

Sounds stalkerish.

No, it only works when you authorise it to broadcast your location to someone else. They can't just log in and see where you are, and once the broadcast time has expired, you would have to invite them to view it again.
You can also request that someone shares their location, but it's up to them to agree to share, otherwise you won't know.
The big difference between this and "Find My Friends" (apple) or whatever android has, is that this works cross platform, you can decide when you want to share your location, and groups can share what they are all doing

[northernladyuk]

Sounds stalkerish.

Ideal if you wanted your deadbeat gambler husband whacked.

[MarillionFan]

A friend of mine introduced me to this one a few weeks ago, it's probably been around for ages but Ive only learned of it.
It's cross platform and free. It allows you to broadcast your position on a map to one person or a group of them for a specific length of time (up to an hour). It will also show the route you have taken.
Great if you're walking in the hills or meeting up with people.

...here ends my useful post of the year.

Sounds stalkerish.

[northernladyuk]

A friend of mine introduced me to this one a few weeks ago, it's probably been around for ages but Ive only learned of it.
It's cross platform and free. It allows you to broadcast your position on a map to one person or a group of them for a specific length of time (up to an hour). It will also show the route you have taken.
Great if you're walking in the hills or meeting up with people.

...here ends my useful post of the year.

Thanks. This would have been really handy trying to get and keep people together for the Oranges and Lemons pub crawl a few years back.

[WTFH]

A friend of mine introduced me to this one a few weeks ago, it's probably been around for ages but Ive only learned of it.
It's cross platform and free. It allows you to broadcast your position on a map to one person or a group of them for a specific length of time (up to an hour). It will also show the route you have taken.
Great if you're walking in the hills or meeting up with people.

...here ends my useful post of the year.