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I just exchanged email with the creator of Icecondor, this seems like a useful app for meeting up with people as well as social location sharing and mapping and is already out in the wild for Android, it is OSS and uses open source tools like Open Street Maps.
This Android app looks very lightweight codewise. How hard would this functionality be to patch into say ModRana or one of the other open map/GPS apps to place a pin for the user and pins for nearby Icecondor users or perhaps just a selected icecondor user?

From Don Park the dev
hi Biketool,
all the code is at github.com/icecondor

there is documentation for the old protocol at
http://icecondor.com/dashboard/developers

its changing for the new v2 that im working on, but the
concepts are
the same and should be a good place to start for any new
client. there
is no linux client, just the android one. im not sure how
the linux
client would know where it is.

don

I would love to have both server/social location sending as an option in apps both in a invisible mode and also sharing my location, though since the N900/Maemo culture is naturally disruptive we should consider for situations where internet is not possible SMS would be cool.
Lastly, and this is going out on a geeky limb, if we could do DTMF or PSK encode/decode import/export that way we could even quickly share location via wired telephone or walkie-talkie radio.
Lastly maybe include some encryption so it can be used by displaced refugees, for example the 100,000s in Syria, to meet up without fearing that their shared location could be used to endanger their lives.
AFAIK the code is all around already here on TMO, I just don't know how to splice the functionality together to make what I think many of us would find very useful.

definately it would be useful and when included to something like modrana said functionablity will only increase by leaps and bounds moreover something like this is say absent on maemo

What is the most simple OSS GPS app with open street maps?
I want to look at the source and see what I can do even if I have no way to compile it I can post the source for someone else to compile.

Maep maybe?

has been ported to sailfish http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=91538

and is used in Osm2Go for N900 as tilerendering

a nice one is also cloudgps

thanks for working to a gps location sharing service

i was using google latitude (when wasnt dismissed) via ZapLoc http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=73068
and i miss it

ps: we also have location sharing in our Conversations and Contacts (telepathy), maybe can be visualized on a (openstreet)map ?

I am surprised that the telepathy location service was never integrated into maps by Nokia. Even my old OpenMoko had location sharing in the Tangogps mapping app.

Probably location service integration into maps was planned by Nokia, but...you know...another thing left there uncomplete

look at this video spot (at 1:44)