Share live tracking among users

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First of all congratulations for your excellent program, very complete.

The idea or suggestion I wanted to make is about "live tracking". Maybe not to depend on an external site, you could keep track of live track on the site of LocusMap (as is done for "test"), but add a user management where you can define which users follow the location and what users want to share our location. So as to track the location of another user from the same LocusMap.
I know that you can simulate this example by sending the "live track" to an external site and then the other person to access this site from your cell phone, but it seems more integrated and convenient to do both within LocusMap.

On the other hand I may be desirable to add in documentation configuration examples "live track" with certain sites that perform the task, eg LiveTrack24 (see example in the forum), MapMyTrack (I was looking at how to integrate, but both latitude and longitude and time stamp should be sent in the same parameter values ​​separated by white space, and requires a parameter value changes according to whether we start, update or finalized the track).
The other option is to add pre-configured sites.

They are just suggestions, I hope to take them well.

Greetings to all and congratulations again.

PS: Sorry for my English, I'm using google translator.
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tigus

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Just want to add some api pages to that idea...

http://www.mapmytracks.com/about/api
http://glympse.com/developers

Maybe there is a skilled developer reading this...
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Berkley Hello, thanks for the reply.

The site Glympse did not know, thanks for the tip. Regarding MapMyTrack, the API defines the values ​​of longitude, latitude and others must be sent in a single parameter (value), called points, separated by white space, Locus instead by what we can do is send each of these values as individual parameters, according to the live tracking screen.

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tigus

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Hello, an idea:
Viewing manual "Live Tracking", perhaps to use MapMyTrack which requires sending data of longitude, latitude and others in the same html parameter, you could add a parameter of type "text field" in which the parameter name would be "points" and the value should be able to specify a text which may contain the name of variables representing the longitude, latitude, etc. For example: "{lat} {lon} {ts}" (note the white space between the values).

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