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Best GPS sharing app to website? for family to track online

Hey everyone,

I was wondering if anyone knew a good GPS sharing app for the Droid so that my family can follow along with me on my trip back from college. I take a bunch of different people back with me, and figured if there was an easy way to share my GPS location (constantly refreshing) on a website for their family along as well, it'd help out a lot (especially with me! haha)

anyone have any recommendations?
 
Try Instamapper. The app allows customization of update frequency and other parameters, and allows you to send a public sharing link to people.

InstaMapper - Free Real-Time GPS Tracking

That looks awesome... but it also looks web-based. If it would integrate into google maps like Latitude does, We would definitely have a winner here.
 
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My experience with Latitude has been a negative one. It just isn't accurate enough... nor does it update frequently enough. (if it feels like updating at all.)

I still can't believe they bill it as "Real-time tracking". :mad:

Its perfectly accurate if the person who is being tracked has GPS on. But if your phone is sleeping or you switch from a GPS app like maps to some other app like the phone, GPS goes off and the location reverts to the location of the cell tower your phone is using.

This saves battery but is still a weak spot for locale.
 
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